Start with the school.Then find the neighborhood.
For international families, the school decision usually determines where in Madrid it makes sense to live.
School categories
French
French curriculum schools, historically concentrated to the east and north-east.
British
British curriculum, widely spread across the north-west corridor.
American
US curriculum, mainly in the western suburbs.
German
German curriculum, long-established in Madrid.
International / IB
IB programmes across a range of private schools.
Public bilingual
Comunidad de Madrid bilingual public programme.
We do not rank schools. Fit depends on curriculum, language, admissions and family circumstances, and no reliable public ranking methodology exists that we would stand behind.
The Luma School Map
Choose a school. See where to live.
Select a school and see the residential areas within a 15, 30 or 45-minute commute. We are building this with verified travel data rather than estimates, so the map is labelled clearly as unfinished until then.
Commute mapping — coming soon
Photography
Madrid school commute map — in development
We do not display travel times until they come from a verified source.
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