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

Applications for new admissions of children between sixteen weeks and three years of age can be submitted from April 1 to 30, both inclusive. As a novelty, the socio-educational care service will be free of charge for all Andalusian two-year-old schoolchildren.

The Estepona City Council informs that next April 1st 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 2025/26 course.

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

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 are 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 2025, 2024 and 2023.

Interested persons can download the registration applications on the page 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 (Avenida 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. It offers morning class and lunchroom service. In addition, families can also submit, together with the application for new admission, the application for aid for the subsidy of services.

The nursery schools develop their activity through projects. Throughout the school year, the ‘School for Families’ activity is carried out, which can be attended by parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, and other people who have a close relationship with the children. For several years now, the English language has also 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 through the e-mail: educacion@estepona.es