The City Council opens the enrollment period for the 2026/27 school year in the five Municipal Nursery Schools for children from 0 to 3 years of age.

The deadline for submitting applications for new admissions of children aged between sixteen weeks and three years, will be open from April 1 to 30, inclusive. As a novelty, the socio-educational care service will be free of charge for all Andalusian schoolchildren aged one and two years old.

The City Council of Estepona informs that next April 1 will begin the admission procedure for the First Cycle of Early Childhood Education in the Municipal Nursery Schools El Nido, El Mar, Los Pitufos, Calancha and Cancelada for children from 0 to 3 years for the course 2026/27.

As a great novelty, the service of socio-educational attention for the places of one and two years in the centers adhered to the ‘Program of help to the families’, will be free from the next course. In this way, all children of one and two years old will be able to benefit from this measure announced by the Department of Educational Development and Vocational Training.

The Consistory will offer for the next academic year a total of 377 places, of which 43 will be for children under 1 year old, 129 for 1 year olds and 205 for 2 year olds. These places will be distributed as follows: Cancelada 74, Calancha 35, El Mar 102, Los Pitufos 115 and El Nido 51. Applications may be submitted by families with children aged between 16 weeks and 3 years, that is, born in the years 2026, 2025 and 2024.

Interested persons can download the registration forms at https://www.juntadeandalucia.es/educacion/portales/en/web/escolarizacion/0-a-3-anos (forms – Annex II) and can also be picked up at the Town Hall (Avd. Juan Carlos I, 40). Once completed, along with the requested documentation, they can be delivered by the virtual secretariat of the Junta de Andalucía or at the Town Hall, by appointment that can be obtained on the page of the City Council of Estepona (Cita previa-Inscripción Escuelas Infantiles) or in person. The deadline for submission of applications for new admissions will be active until April 30.

The Municipal Nursery Schools have a schedule of socio-educational attention from 07.30 to 17.00 hours; offering morning class (from 07:30 to 09:00 hours) and afternoon (from 15:30 to 17:00 hours), and canteen service. In addition, families may also submit, together with the application for new admission, the application for aid for the subsidy of services.

The Infant Schools develop their activity through projects; throughout the school year, the Family School activity is carried out, which can be attended by parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles and other people who have a close relationship with the little ones, and, for several years now, English has been introduced in the classrooms. The City Council also offers a psychological consultation service to parents who may need it, as well as to detect possible deficits in the development of children.

For more information, interested parties can contact the municipal delegation of Education at 952809000 extensions 1329 or 1336, or via e-mail educacion@estepona.es.