Frequently-Asked Questions

For the upcoming school year, we serve children in Pre-Kindergarten through 9th Grade. 10th Grade will be added in 2023, 11th Grade in 2024, and 12th Grade in 2025.

We consider it vital for our students to have a strong foundational base education that prepares them for global higher education. Our highly successful curriculum is based on the Core Knowledge curriculum (and Cambridge Schools International for middle schoolers), with Singapore Math, Next Generation Science Standards, and the core TASIS Portugal difference, in which children become familiar with coding, chess, violin, yoga, leadership, and rhetoric as they progress through the school. High school students will utilize the International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) in 9th and 10th Grades and the International Baccalaureate (IB) in 11th and 12th Grades.

At no extra cost, your child receives:

• A fresh and healthy lunch and two snacks every day (an 1080€ value)
• After school activities (clubs & sports)
• All textbooks & instructional materials (an 1100€ value)
• Violins (for required grades)
• School field trips

Of course, additional things you elect to do, such as non-required trips, private music lessons, equestrian lessons, etc. come with extra fees. Visit our tuition page here.

In addition to a nominal one-time application fee, we require payment of the Campus Enhancement Fee to secure your child’s spot.

For Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten students, families have a choice of remitting either the Campus Enhancement Fee or an Enrollment Deposit, which is applied towards the first year’s tuition.

These fees are paid only once. Visit the tuition and fees page for more detail.

Like most international schools in Portugal, we charge a fee for students enrolling in first grade and above. This fee is paid just once and is named the Campus Enhancement Fee, as it goes directly into the building and development of our campus.

Families of Pre-Kindergarten & Kindergarten students may elect to pay this fee or the Enrollment Deposit, which is applied toward the cost of tuition. See our tuition and fees page for details. Payment of either of these fees is required in order to secure a spot once the student is admitted.

The 2022-2023 academic year began on Thursday, September 1.

Both. Our school is truly a global center of learning, bringing in highly qualified teachers from international schools around the world and of course from here in Portugal.

Absolutely! We believe that physical activity is just as essential as academics in growing healthy young minds and bodies. Our Early Learning Center features an amazing outdoor classroom! We have playgrounds, playing fields, indoor and covered outdoor gymnasium facilities, a climbing wall, and more, with additional playing field capacity planned under direction of our Director of Competitive Sports. Learn more about our sport and play spaces here.

Construction is complete on Phase 2, which is our new middle school and enhanced elementary school. Our Early Learning Center is complete. Phase 3 construction includes the high school. Inquire with our admission team about construction schedules and the exciting things to come on campus!

Every Pre-Kindergarten through 4th grade class has two full-time qualified teachers, and beginning in 5th grade, students have a primary (homeroom) teacher and a set of specialty teachers who are subject matter experts.

TASIS Portugal was founded in 2020, but TASIS is not new. The American School in Switzerland, the original TASIS campus, was the very first American international school in Europe. TASIS has a rich history of tradition and since 1956 has been preparing students for success in global colleges and universities.

As founder Mary Crist Fleming said in a speech to students and parents in 1996, “Forty years ago I did dream of a school or schools that by bringing young people closely together in their young and formative tender years we might be able to “bond” the world together in such a way that ties of understanding, compassion, love, and a sense of reality would create a saner, safer, better world.”

At TASIS Portugal, we consider ourselves partners with parents in the raising and education of a child. TASIS Portugal parents are members of an active TASIS Parents Association (TPA) that meets regularly, organizes events, and provides feedback. Our TPA has its own dedicated office on campus and is provides an active forum for discussion.

The TASIS Foundation is a nonprofit organization based in Switzerland that is responsible for the financial wellbeing and support of the school. Its mission is to aid, assist, foster, and promote education by providing equipment, books, supplies, and funds for educational activities, faculty development, and facility improvements.

Read more about the TASIS Foundation here.

While the TASIS Foundation Board maintains oversight of all of the TASIS schools and programs, TASIS Portugal’s Board of Directors and executive staff are responsible for our fiscal and operating policies and are responsible for creating a shared vision and strategic direction for the school’s future.

For more information on the governance of TASIS Portugal, visit this page.