St. Julian's School


St. Julian's School is a private British international school, located in Carcavelos, Cascais Municipality, on the Portuguese Riviera, in the Greater Lisbon region. It is housed at Quinta de Santo António, a historic Pombaline quinta near :pt:Praia de Carcavelos|Carcavelos Beach.

History

St. Julian's is an international private school located in the parish of Carcavelos e Parede, in Cascais, close to Lisbon, Portugal. The school takes its name from São Julião da Barra Fortress, overlooking nearby Carcavelos beach, originally erected in the mid-16th century to keep the British, among other raiders, out of the Tagus estuary.
The school opened on 25 November 1932 in the buildings, including residential palace, of the 18th-century estate founded by José Francisco da Cruz, treasurer to King D. José I.
At the time of the school's founding, the palace and grounds were the property of the British Eastern Telegraph Company, which had installed and maintained a system of submarine cables that helped to transform global communication at the turn-of-the-century.
St. Julian's and the Carlucci American International School of Lisbon maintain a friendly school rivalry as competing, leading American and British international schools in Portugal.

Academics

St Julian's has more than 1,100 students from age three to age eighteen.
The schools is divided into two linguistic sections:
The final two years of the school are given through the International Baccalaureate program.

Administration

St Julian's is run by a not-for-profit association, whose members, as trustees, appoint the Board of Governors.
St Julian's School is jointly accredited by the Council of International Schools and the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, and the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference. It is an associate member of the Council of British International Schools.
Just over half the students at St. Julian's are Portuguese, with British the next largest nationality, and more than 40 other countries represented.

Notable alumni