Good to know
Good to Know
- Only a handful of schools (UAS, TBS, Lycée Français, IC, Woodlands, St. Clare's) publish IB Diploma results — most other bilingual schools listed focus on a Spanish/English or Spanish/other-language split without pursuing a separate international diploma.
- Most schools do not publish tuition rates online at all — expect to request a quote directly, and to pay a separate one-time enrollment/registration fee on top of tuition.
- Carrasco is the de facto hub for the most internationally-oriented schools (UAS, The Anglo School's Carrasco campus, and others), so many relocating families end up choosing housing there once a school is picked.
- Uruguay's school year runs roughly March to early December with a short winter break in July, which is the opposite of the Northern Hemisphere calendar — a real adjustment for US/European families arriving mid-year.
- To formally enroll a child, Uruguay generally requires the family to have legal residency and the child to hold a cédula de identidad, so lining up the residency process early matters for anyone planning a longer stay.
- Start international/bilingual school applications 6-12 months ahead of your intended start date, especially for English-language and IB programs — the market is small and popular seats do fill up.
- Begin your residency and cédula de identidad application in parallel with school applications, not after — many schools expect this to be underway before finalizing enrollment.
- If transferring from a school abroad, budget time for official revalidation of prior academic records through Uruguay's education authorities before your child can be placed in the correct grade.
- Confirm which academic calendar a school follows before planning your move — most Uruguayan-system schools run March to December, but some American-curriculum schools follow an August-to-June year.
- Do not plan on homeschooling as a fallback option in Uruguay: it sits in a legally unsettled space, national education authorities maintain it isn't permitted, and there is no official learning-validation mechanism or established local support network in Montevideo.
Schools
Uruguayan American School (UAS)
- Curriculum
- Students at the Uruguayan American School have the opportunity to earn the US high school diploma, the IB Diploma, and, in many cases, the Uruguayan Diploma. The Uruguayan American School conducts all classes in English, with the exception of the optional Uruguayan Program class and Spanish language classes.
- Neighborhood
- Carrasco
- One Time Registration Fee
- UYU 381,900
Tuition Annual
- Pre K
- UYU 488,430
- Elementary
- UYU 787,920
- High School
- UYU 933,444
- Middle School
- UYU 933,444
- Notes
- Figures from the US State Department's 2025 fact sheet on UAS, reported by the school as current for the 2024/25 year; tuition is billed in USD, UYU shown is a converted equivalent.
The British Schools of Montevideo (TBS)
- Curriculum
- The school follows a rigorous curriculum, offering the International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) and the International Baccalaureate (IB) programs, ensuring students are well-prepared for higher education.
- Neighborhood
- Montevideo (multiple campuses)
Tuition Annual
- Notes
- TBS does not publish a public tuition table by year group; figures are not available online and must be requested directly from the school.
Lycée Français Jules Supervielle
- Curriculum
- Part of the AEFE network (Agence pour l'Enseignement Français à l'Étranger), Lycée français Jules-Supervielle is located in Montevideo, Uruguay. French national curriculum from Maternelle through Terminale/Baccalauréat.
- Neighborhood
- Montevideo
Tuition Monthly
- Primary 1 To 5
- UYU 40,955
- Preschool TPS Full Day
- UYU 30,320
- Preschool TPS Half Day
- UYU 21,345
- Preschool Moyens Grands
- UYU 34,690
Annual Registration Fee
- Primary
- UYU 15,020
- Preschool
- UYU 13,650
- Secondary
- UYU 24,595
Deutsche Schule Montevideo (Colegio Y Liceo Alemán)
- Curriculum
- Deutsche Schule Montevideo offers a German-Uruguayan bilingual education. The school is part of the network of German Schools Abroad and provides a curriculum that leads to the German International Abitur as well as the Uruguayan Bachillerato.
- Neighborhood
- Montevideo
Tuition Annual
- Notes
- Tuition figures not published publicly; contact school directly.
International College (IC)
- Curriculum
- International College is a bilingual school offering the International Baccalaureate (IB) program alongside the Uruguayan national curriculum.
- Neighborhood
- Montevideo
Tuition Annual
- Notes
- Not publicly published; contact school directly.
St. Clare's College
- Curriculum
- St. Clare's College is a private, bilingual educational institution in Montevideo, Uruguay, offering International Baccalaureate programs.
- Neighborhood
- Montevideo
Tuition Annual
- Notes
- Not publicly published; contact school directly.
Woodlands School
- Curriculum
- Woodlands School is a private, bilingual educational institution in Montevideo, Uruguay, offering International Baccalaureate (IB) programs.
- Neighborhood
- Montevideo
Tuition Annual
- Notes
- Not publicly published; contact school directly.
St. Andrew's School
- Curriculum
- St. Andrew's School in Uruguay is a private, bilingual educational institution offering a British-style curriculum.
- Neighborhood
- Montevideo
Tuition Annual
- Notes
- Not publicly published; contact school directly.
The Anglo School (Carrasco & Centro Campuses)
- Curriculum
- With the Cambridge University program developing content in English, the school offers international certification both in primary and secondary education (CIPP – Cambridge International Primary Program and IGCSE – International General Certificate of Secondary Education). Dual schooling is made up of 20 weekly hours of Spanish and 17 weekly hours of English.
- Neighborhood
- Carrasco and Centro
Tuition Annual
- Notes
- Not publicly published; school states rates available on request.
St George's School
- Curriculum
- St George's School students are trained in a bilingual educational system from nursery school to Baccalaureate grade, enrolling two primary curricular programs in parallel, working together with Uruguay's educational system and the international Cambridge Primary program, enriched by the UK National Curriculum.
- Neighborhood
- Montevideo
Tuition Annual
- Notes
- Not publicly published; contact school directly.
St Brendan's School
- Curriculum
- St. Brendan's School offers a bilingual, bicultural education with a strong emphasis on the English language. The curriculum is based on both Uruguayan and international content.
- Neighborhood
- Montevideo
Tuition Annual
- Notes
- Not publicly published; contact school directly.
Scuola Italiana Di Montevideo
- Curriculum
- The Scuola Italiana di Montevideo provides a trilingual education in Italian, Spanish, and English. It follows the Italian educational system while also incorporating elements of the Uruguayan curriculum.
- Neighborhood
- Montevideo
Tuition Annual
- Notes
- Not publicly published; contact school directly.
Stella Maris College
- Curriculum
- Stella Maris College is a private, bilingual educational institution in Montevideo, Uruguay, offering preschool to high school levels.
- Neighborhood
- Montevideo
Tuition Annual
- Notes
- Not publicly published; contact school directly.
Colegio Seminario
- Curriculum
- Colegio Seminario is a prestigious private Catholic school in Montevideo, Uruguay, offering bilingual education.
- Neighborhood
- Montevideo
Tuition Annual
- Notes
- Not publicly published; contact school directly.
Colegio Y Liceo Hans Christian Andersen
- Curriculum
- Colegio y Liceo Hans Christian Andersen is a private educational institution in Uruguay offering a bilingual curriculum.
- Neighborhood
- Montevideo
Tuition Annual
- Notes
- Not publicly published; contact school directly.
Colegio Y Liceo Horacio Quiroga
- Curriculum
- Colegio y Liceo Horacio Quiroga is a reputable educational institution in Uruguay offering comprehensive schooling.
- Neighborhood
- Montevideo
Tuition Annual
- Notes
- Not publicly published; contact school directly.
Colegio Bilingüe Richard Anderson
- Curriculum
- Colegio Bilingüe Richard Anderson is a bilingual educational institution in Uruguay offering a comprehensive curriculum.
- Neighborhood
- Montevideo
Tuition Annual
- Notes
- Not publicly published; contact school directly.
Colegio Inglés
- Curriculum
- Colegio Inglés is a prestigious bilingual educational institution in Uruguay offering a comprehensive curriculum from early education to high school.
- Neighborhood
- Montevideo
Tuition Annual
- Notes
- Not publicly published; contact school directly.
Colegio Prado School
- Curriculum
- Colegio Prado School is a private educational institution in Montevideo, Uruguay, offering a bilingual curriculum.
- Neighborhood
- Montevideo
Tuition Annual
- Notes
- Not publicly published; contact school directly.
Cervantes School & College
- Curriculum
- Cervantes School & College is a reputable educational institution in Uruguay offering a comprehensive curriculum.
- Neighborhood
- Montevideo
Tuition Annual
- Notes
- Not publicly published; contact school directly.
Elbio Fernández School and Liceo
- Curriculum
- School and Liceo Elbio Fernández is a historic educational institution in Montevideo, Uruguay, offering comprehensive education from preschool to high school.
- Neighborhood
- Montevideo
Tuition Annual
- Notes
- Not publicly published; contact school directly.
Montevideo College
- Curriculum
- Montevideo College is a prestigious educational institution offering a comprehensive curriculum in Uruguay.
- Neighborhood
- Montevideo
Tuition Annual
- Notes
- Not publicly published; contact school directly.
Ivy Thomas Memorial School
- Curriculum
- Ivy Thomas Memorial School is a well-regarded educational institution in Uruguay, offering a comprehensive curriculum.
- Neighborhood
- Montevideo
Tuition Annual
- Notes
- Not publicly published; contact school directly.
Harwood School
- Curriculum
- Harwood School is a prestigious bilingual educational institution in Montevideo, Uruguay, offering international curricula.
- Neighborhood
- Montevideo
Tuition Annual
- Notes
- Not publicly published; contact school directly.
EduSchool
- Curriculum
- EduSchool in Uruguay is a modern educational institution offering a diverse curriculum to students of various ages.
- Neighborhood
- Montevideo
Tuition Annual
- Notes
- Not publicly published; contact school directly.
General Market Tuition Context
- Description
- Aggregator estimates (not school-specific) for annual tuition across Montevideo's international-school sector.
Range 1
- Low
- UYU 482,400
- High
- UYU 884,400
- Text
- Annual tuition fees range from approximately $12,000 USD for primary grades to over $22,000 USD for the final years of high school.
- Source Note
- realestate-in-uruguay.com estimate for top-tier schools
Range 2
- Low
- UYU 201,000
- High
- UYU 603,000
- Text
- The yearly tuition fees for International Schools in Montevideo generally range from $5,000 to $15,000 per year, with some top-tier schools exceeding $20,000 annually.
- Top Tier Exceeding
- UYU 804,000
- Source Note
- world-schools.com estimate across all international schools in Montevideo
Enrollment And Homeschooling
Homeschooling Legal Status
- Status Summary
- Legally ambiguous and actively contested rather than clearly legal or clearly illegal. A 2020 reform to Uruguay's General Education Law (Ley General de Educación, via the LUC) removed the earlier explicit requirement that parents enroll children in a formal education center, which some advocates argue implicitly opened the door to home education. However, education authorities have not accepted this reading in practice.
- Enforcement Reality
- This is not a purely theoretical debate: ANEP has pursued legal cases against families who withdrew children from formal schooling, including a Mennonite religious community in Florida department, and earlier cases where parents were warned they risked losing patria potestad (parental custody rights) over the decision to homeschool.
- Constitutional Tension
- Homeschooling advocates point to Article 41 of the Uruguayan Constitution, which frames education of children as both a duty and a right of parents, and to a 2022 referendum that upheld the broader LUC reform package (including the education-law change) at the ballot box. Officials counter by citing the Código de la Niñez y la Adolescencia, which obliges parents to ensure regular attendance at an educational institution.
- Official Government Position
- Leadership of Uruguay's national public education administration (ANEP) has publicly stated that homeschooling is not permitted in Uruguay. The president of ANEP's central council, Virginia Cáceres, stated on Uruguayan radio that there is no rule enabling home-based education, and the national director of Education, Gonzalo Baroni, has said Uruguay has no mechanism to validate a child's learning outside of passing through an accredited institution.
- Practical Implication For Nomad Families
- Uruguay should not be treated as a homeschool-friendly jurisdiction for a family relocating short- or medium-term. There is no official recognition pathway, no regulatory framework defining curriculum or supervision standards, and real precedent of state intervention against non-enrolled children.
Homeschooling Community Or Coop
- Documented In Montevideo
- No
- Note
- No genuinely documented homeschooling co-op or support community specific to Montevideo turned up in research. The one concrete organized homeschooling group identified in Uruguayan press coverage — a small settlement-based project called 'Amanecer' — is located in Valizas, Rocha department, well outside Montevideo, and its families have themselves faced legal challenges from ANEP. A national advocacy voice (representing groups such as Comité Global Ghex and the Asociación Unidad y Acción Internacional) has pushed publicly for legal recognition of homeschooling rights, but this is advocacy/lobbying rather than a documented local parent co-op or meetup network in the city.
International Bilingual School Enrollment
- Market Overview
- Montevideo's international/bilingual school market is small — realistically two or three serious options per curriculum type (American, British/IB, German) rather than dozens of competing schools. The main cluster is in Carrasco, with the Uruguayan American School, The British Schools of Montevideo, St. Brendan's School, and the Deutsche Schule Montevideo (Colegio y Liceo Alemán) most commonly named by expat families.
- Evaluation Process
- Beyond paperwork, expect a profile/placement evaluation, which commonly includes an interview involving the school's psychology or admissions team together with the parents and the student, followed by a formal acceptance letter and a request for an initial payment to confirm the place.
- Recommended Timeline
- Plan to start contacting schools and submitting applications 6 to 12 months before the intended start date, particularly for English-language and IB programs where waitlists can be significant. For Kindergarten/early-years places specifically, the admissions cycle for some schools effectively begins about a year before the child's actual entry year, so families relocating with a 3-4 year old should not wait until arrival to start the process.
- Foreign Credential Step
- For students transferring from a school outside Uruguay, prior academic records typically need to be officially revalidated through the relevant education authority (Consejo de Educación) before the receiving school can slot the student into the correct grade level.
- Residency And ID Prerequisite
- A recurring practical bottleneck for foreign families: to fully register a child in any Uruguayan school (public or private), the family generally needs to have legal residency established and the child needs a cédula de identidad (national ID card). This legal/residency process is often expected to be underway or completed before a school will finalize registration, so it pays to start the residency application in parallel with, not after, school applications.
- How Competitive Admissions Are
- Because the pool of schools is limited rather than because demand is low, the process is described as less about scoring the highest on a competitive entrance exam and more about early contact and fit. Sources describe the admissions process in Montevideo as less competitive and more personal than in larger Latin American hubs, but still warn that seats at the most in-demand English-language and IB programs can genuinely run out.
- Academic Calendar Note
- Uruguay's school year runs on the Southern Hemisphere calendar, from early March to early December (winter break in July, long summer break mid-December to February), though some American-curriculum schools such as UAS follow the Northern Hemisphere calendar (August to June) instead — confirm which calendar a specific school uses when planning your move date.
Practical Tips
- Shortlist 2-3 schools early — the compact geography of Montevideo means all the main international schools can realistically be visited in a single trip.
- Ask each school directly, at first contact, for its complete document checklist and fee schedule — schools do not consistently publish this publicly and it varies by grade and nationality of the applicant.
- Start the residency/cédula process as early as possible since it can gate final school enrollment, not just visa logistics.
Required Documents Typical
- Signed Admission Application form (online or printed)
- Most recent school report / academic transcript from the previous institution
- Specialist or learning-support reports, if applicable
- Completed student information form and socio-familial/personal background forms
- DGI Form 3102 (tax authority registration form used in the enrollment paperwork)
- Debt-free certificate ('certificado de no adeudo') if transferring from a private school
- Image/media-use authorization form
- Copies of legal guardianship documents, if applicable
- Current government-issued ID for both parents/guardians and the student
- MSP health card (Ministerio de Salud Pública health certificate)
- Signed Enrollment and School Regulations acknowledgment forms
- Two passport-style photos
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