Vilamoura International School
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Vilamoura International School is a co-educational private day school located in the Algarve in Vilamoura
Vilamoura
Vilamoura is in the municipality of Loulé, in the Algarve, Portugal. Its boundaries lie within the parish of Quarteira. Vilamoura is a purpose built resort and Marina which was started from scratch by a wealthy banker from Porto, Cupertino de Miranda. The resort was started in 1974 and is still...

, Portugal
Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...

. It is an International schoold which follows an English and Portuguese curriculum up to IGCSE
IGCSE
The International General Certificate of Secondary Education is an internationally recognised qualification for school students, typically in the 14–16 age group. It is similar to the GCSE in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, Standard Grade in Scotland or Junior Certificate in the Republic of...

, AS and A Level Cambridge exams and a National section where Portuguese is taught as a first language and the National Curriculum is taught. French and German are taught as foreign languages. The school has some 660 pupils of over 30 nationalities.

Uniforms are mandatory for students from class 1 to class 10.

The school has a Director, Dr. Renato Costa, an acclaimed author in Portugal, and a Principal for the English Studies, Mrs.Paula Ferreira. The school has been very successful and is the Best school in the Algarve,Portugal and the 54th best school in the Country. The school is very exclusive.The tuition although it is high, about 10,000 euros per year, the school's students have been very successful, a lot of them becoming businessmen or women.
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