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Oporto British School, a Foz British-and-IB house, not CLIP

Porto’s older British day house on Rua da Cerca, not CLIP on Rua de Vila Nova and not a Cascais commute. The 2026/27 fees page prints euros. Add the capital charge before you compare the two northern Tuesdays.

TagesschulekoedukativRecherchiert 1.9.2026

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Dieses Porträt steht noch auf Englisch. Die anderen Sprachen kommen Schule für Schule.

Curriculum laut Schule:British curriculum · Cambridge IGCSE · IB Diploma Programme

Unterrichtssprachen:English

Oporto British School is a co-educational day school at Rua da Cerca, 338, 4150-201 Porto. Official site obs.edu.pt. Switchboard +351 226 166 660. Admissions: admissions@obs.edu.pt.

It is not CLIP — Oporto International School on Rua de Vila Nova. Same city. Almost no Monday. CLIP is Cambridge and AICE. OBS prints IGCSE then the IB Diploma. Time Foz.

The home page’s snapshot: founded 1894; 577 students; 30 nationalities; average class size 16; 300 metres from the beach. Treat those as the school’s own photographs.

The useful questions are: Is the leaving paper IGCSE then IB, or CLIP’s Cambridge path? And have you added the capital and maintenance charge€745 — because it sits beside the annual line?

Who it is for

Families who want an English British week in Porto that ends in the IB, and who can live near the river rather than on a Lisbon train.

Early Years, Primary, Secondary, IGCSE, IB Diploma. It is a day school. There is no boarding house.

It will not suit a family hunting a Portuguese colégio with exames nacionais, or a CLIP Tuesday they have not walked. Walk those if that is the climate.

The campus you can actually picture

Rua da Cerca, Foz. Three hundred metres from the beach, the home page says. Time that walk in January, not on an open morning in June.

How a child actually gets in

Write admissions. Registration fee €160 on application. Acceptance fee €475, once only. A refundable deposit of one term’s fee is due within five weeks of a firm offer; a child cannot start without it. We will not invent the euro that one term comes to for this form, or a cutoff, or a waitlist.

Money, as the 2026/2027 school-fees page prints it

Tuition (single annual payment)

Path 2026/2027
Pre-Prep, Prep and Reception €9,530
Primary, Forms 1–5 €11,105
Secondary, Forms 6–8 €12,885
IGCSE, Forms 9–10 €15,315
IB Diploma, Forms 11–12 €17,570

Termly and ten-month options sit on the same page; the termly and monthly lines are higher than the single annual payment.

Other mandatory charges: capital and maintenance €745 each year; pupil insurance €55.

Examinations, the page now prints as fixed fees: IB Diploma €920 per student; IGCSE €165 per subject. Pay before the sitting.

What we are not claiming

We are not ranking OBS against CLIP. We are not calling 1894 a medal. We are not inventing a 2026/27 lunch euro — the page still prints €5.35 Primary and €6.45 Secondary as current canteen prices and says the final 2026/27 meal prices will be confirmed. We are not treating “577” as a census we counted.

Stairs questions

Ask whether this child is buying IGCSE then IB, or a Cambridge house across town. Add the €745 capital line. Time Rua da Cerca and Rua de Vila Nova on the same wet Tuesday.

The Porto hub is the short map. The Portugal country page is the wider one.

Quellen für dieses Porträt

Offizielle Seiten und Dokumente, die wir gelesen haben. Wenn eine Zahl für Budget oder Bewerbung zählt, öffnet den Link und prüft, ob er noch gilt.

Freundliche Orientierung, kein Antrag. Termine, Gebühren und Programme ändern sich. Alles bei der Schule prüfen.

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