The history of British School Alzira-Xàtiva-Gandia is a testimony of vision, commitment and an educational project born from the heart. A project that, from the beginning, has wanted to be more than a school: a home of learning, growth and values that will always accompany all our students.
Opening of British School Alzira
It was 1997 when Mrs. Amparo Ramón Martínez, with a great passion for teaching and convinced that every child deserves to receive a quality education in a stimulating environment, started the first school of the group: the British School Alzira. It was here that the values were sown which today continue to be the pillars on which all our daily work is based: academic excellence, personalized treatment, linguistic immersion and human closeness (both with the students and with the families and professionals who make up our British family).
Opening of British School Xátiva
In 2009, together with her husband and son, Doña Amparo expanded the educational bet with the creation of British School Xàtiva, with the same illusion of offering a modern British system and individualized attention, extended and offered its educational offer to new areas.
Start of the British School Gandia
Later, in 2015, British School Gandia was born, as the culmination of the dream of bringing the excellence of the British School Group to the Safor and its surroundings, responding to a growing demand of families committed to a high level international education. A modern campus, first class facilities, diversity of nationalities and a consolidated pedagogical model are the features that mark its distinctive profile.
News: development and innovation
Today, British School Alzira and British School Xàtiva have all educational stages, from Pre-Nursery to Year 13, while British School Gandia continues to grow as the student body that started this project does, offering this academic year 2025-26 all educational levels from Pre-Nursery to Year 11 (completion of Secondary). Next school year, the British School Gandia will open the Baccalaureate Cycle, in its recently inaugurated new plant.
Evolution and projection
What began as a family school with few students has grown to become a national educational reference, both for its complete British model – from 0 to 18 years of age – as well as for itspedagogical innovation, its quality facilities and its commitment to comprehensive education.
Led by Franc Corbí, today the group has more than 1,200 students of many nationalities, as well as modern infrastructures and facilities, spaces designed also with educational neuroscience criteria, which invite learning through experience and discovery.
British School Alzira-Xàtiva-Gandia has a strong external recognition for academic results, educational quality and management.
Current address: Franc Corbí
At the head of this project is Franc Corbí Ramón, who belongs to the Corbí-Ramón family, with an educational tradition of several generations. With a degree in Law and a Master’s Degree in Management of Educational Centers, he has been involved in the management of schools in Alzira, Xàtiva and Gandia with his family for more than 27 years.
Today he is one of the most relevant people in the world of Education on the national scene due to his great and varied involvement in the educational sector. He is, for more than 20 years, Treasurer and member of the National Board of Directors of NABSS, the National Association of British Schools in Spain and since 2021, Vice President at the National level.
Franc Corbí is the State Counselor for Education in Spain , where he is a consultative member of the State for Education in the private sector together with D. Juan Santiago (President of ACADE).
Later he was appointed member of the National Board and its National Executive of ACADE , the most important private school employer in Spain, also acting as 1st Vice President at the National level since 2020.
He is a visiting professor at universities such as the VIU (International University of Valencia), organizer of educational masters for the Alfonso X El Sabio University, and godfather of the infant and primary classes of students at the Cardenal Herrera CEU University in Valencia.
Regular speaker at national and international educational events, co-creator of the School for Talented Parents, organizer of prestigious educational conferences such as EICE (Teaching English in Educational Centers) and director of the Shakespeare Awards, prestigious prizes awarded to education sector.
In addition to all this activity in the educational sector, he regularly participates in television programs on education and his regular section of Talented Parents School in Mediterráneo Televisión on Levante TV and Director and Presenter in Escuela de Padres on 13TV, as well as the direction and presentation of the weekly radio program “Hablemos de Educación” on Radiointereconomía.
He usually participates and collaborates in educational legislative initiatives. For this reason, it has participated on behalf of the British schools in Spain in the regulations for access to the university of British schools as well as being part of the committee of experts in private education in the White Paper on Education .
