Education grants a unique seven-year concert to the Escolania de Lluc

The Minister of Education and Universities, Antoni Vera Alemany, has approved the establishment of the singular nature of the educational agreement of the CC Escolania de Lluc (code 07000959), in the municipality of Escorca, effective from September 1, 2026, and valid until August 31, 2033. The decision is published in the Official Gazette of the Balearic Islands (BOIB) no. 145, of November 12, 2026, in Section III, page 64060, under announcement number 11362. The resolution is issued at the proposal of the Director General of Teaching Personnel and Concerted Centers, Joana Maria Cabrer Sureda, and bears the electronic signature of the minister dated November 6, 2026.

The legal framework for the decision is the first additional provision of Decree 21/2026, of July 31, which regulates educational agreements (BOIB no. 97, of August 4, 2026). This regulation empowers the minister to sign, on an exceptional basis, singular educational agreements with centers that present recognized cultural, historical, or musical traits, provided that their experiences are of pedagogical interest to the educational system. The ratios and the allocation of hours for each stage must be collected in the agreement’s formalization document, with a prior report from the competent general directorate and a hearing by the Agreements Commission.

The center already held the status of an integrated private concerted center since the Resolution of the Minister of Education, Culture and Universities of September 13, 2012 (BOIB no. 142, of September 29, 2012), which authorized it as an integrated center for primary education, compulsory secondary education, and elementary music education. The now-published resolution recalls that the Escolania, linked to the Sanctuary of Lluc, has documented origins in the 13th century and that its configuration as a stable choir school was consolidated with the bull of Pope Clement VII in 1531, which established the daily singing of the choirboys following the model of the Escolania de Montserrat.

From provisional rejection to the exceptional regime

The path to the singular agreement was not direct. For the 2026-2027 academic year, the center requested an increase of one primary education unit for reasons other than natural growth, but the economic and educational planning report was unfavorable, in accordance with the report from the Schooling, Degrees and Legalizations Service of March 17, 2026, which did not consider the expansion of places necessary. The Provisional Resolution of May 12, 2026 (BOIB no. 60) provisionally denied this unit.

Parallelly, the Department of Educational Inspection issued a report on March 30, 2026, which qualified the center as singular due to its historical and cultural trajectory in Mallorca and its location in a difficult-to-access area, a fact that conditions enrollment and the organization of groups. On August 27, 2026, the director general and the head of the Department of Planning, Educational Organization and Payroll of Concerted Centers signed the preliminary report justifying the historical, cultural, and musical character of the center and proposing ratios and hours, and on August 31, the Educational Concerts Commission of the Balearic Islands was informed.

Two units per stage and 72 hours of music

After a meeting on October 15, 2026, the center requested a configuration of two units per stage and that the ESO (Secondary Education) not have to be organized by areas, due to the difficulties of compatibilizing subjects, organizing the teaching staff, and providing specialists. The resolution accepts this and establishes the following configuration:

• Primary education: 2 units (one more than the previous configuration).
• ESO first cycle: 2 units.
• ESO second cycle: 2 units (no increase compared to the 2025-2026 academic year).
• Educational guidance in early childhood and primary education: 4 hours.
• Educational psychologist: 5 hours.
• Basic allocation in EI/EP: 6 hours of PT (Therapeutic Pedagogy) and 6 of AD (Auditory and Language Disorders).
• Integrated elementary music teachings: 72 hours.

The hourly allocation for ESO is increased by 6.5 weekly hours compared to the proposal of August 27. The funding for the units and hours must be calculated according to annex 20 of Law 6/2025, of July 23, on the general budgets of the Autonomous Community for 2025, and the modules of subsequent exercises.

Formalization and appeals

The concert must be formalized in an electronic administrative document, with the signature of the counselor and the head of the center or their legal representative, who must prove representation. Against the resolution, which exhausts the administrative route, an optional appeal for reversal may be filed before the counselor within one month from the day after publication in the BOIB, or a contentious-administrative appeal before the Contentious-Administrative Section of the Court of First Instance of Palma within two months.

The decision consolidates an exception to the general regime of concerts that directly affects the center, the families, and the school map of Mallorca: it recognizes through regulatory means a model that combines compulsory teachings and musical training in a single project and gives it stability until 2033, although the same file notes that the additional primary education unit had been denied months earlier due to a lack of need for places.

Source: BOIB, no. 145, of November 12, 2026, Section III. Other provisions and administrative acts, p. 64060 (official reference: announcement 11362, document 1232604).