After finishing the primary education stage, pupils move into the first year of obligatory secondary education.

Obligatory secondary education (ESO) is a free mandatory stage of basic education and comprises four academic years normally between the ages of 12 to 16.

Obligatory secondary education aims to:

• Provide students with core elements of culture: humanities, arts, science and technology
• Ensure students develop and consolidate study and work habits
• Prepare students so they can take further studies or move into employment
• Educate all students so they may exercise their rights and duties as citizens.

If you would like to know how ESO is organised, please click here.

More Information:

• Education in the Balearic Islands: https://www.caib.es/sites/ofertaeducativanova
• Schooling registration: escolaritzacio.caib.cat
• Integrate Studies Programme (PEI), aimed at students simutaneously taking Professional Music or Dance Studies and Obligatory Secondary Education