Welcome to TASIS Portugal — one of the highest-performing, most dynamic, and exciting schools on the international educational landscape today. We are the newest school in the TASIS family of  schools, a remarkable institution that spans Switzerland, England, and Puerto Rico, and over 70 years of international educational leadership. I am honored to be joining the TASIS Portugal community as interim Headmaster for the 2026–27 academic year, drawing on 25 years of experience as a head of school. 

TASIS Portugal was built on a foundation laid with extraordinary vision. Our founding Board Chairman, Mr. Fernando Gonzalez, brought an aspirational idea to life, and founding Headmaster Mr. Keith Chicquen spent seven years leading and developing a TASIS school of high academic purpose, of commitment to developing students’ character, and of warmth and belonging — so essential with families from over 50 different countries and from such diverse backgrounds. 

Our school connects all of us — but especially children — to something larger. In 1956, Mrs. M. Crist Fleming — a courageous and pioneering educator — founded the first TASIS campus in Switzerland, the first American boarding school in Europe. Her belief in the power of international education has shaped and bridged people, cultures, countries, and our world, a model more essential now than ever. TASIS Portugal is the latest and most vibrant expression of our Founder’s enduring vision. 

So what will you and your child discover here? When you arrive, you will see a built environment that surrounds children with beauty. You will see children joyfully engaged in school life, learning, socializing, growing — and advancing their intellect and character. You will see inspiring, intellectually curious, and committed men and women — our faculty — who lead a research-driven approach to learning and to advancing students’ curiosity about the world in which they live. And you will see and join a parent community that believes and places its trust in, as well as  supports, engages and partners with, their child’s school.

If you would like your child to experience the best of international education, please come visit us at TASIS Portugal. We would love for you to see it for yourself. The next chapter of TASIS Portugal may just be beginning, but it builds upon a culture of international, educational, academic, and moral excellence. And there has never been a better moment to be part of it. 

Yours sincerely,

Dennis Manning