Does he speak fluent Spanish...?

 

Is he going to attend a state run school or a fee based school?
We are not all Americans here, so what is high school? What age is our son?
Is it the whole family moving over?
Where in Spain is this football school?

 

To me, a senior is an old person (like me)

Obviously in the context I realised that the OP was talking about a teen, but I have no clue what age a senior would be

 

I don't know of any high school that offers half day attendance for 12th grade. This is basically because the school system is totally different here. What is known as the ESO (obligatory secondary education) is 7th through 10th grades. After that kids have two options. One option is an intensive 2 year course called Bachillerato (11th and 12th grades) to prepare students for the university entrance exams. In Bachillerato students have to choose a branch or major depending on what major they'd like to study at university. Bachillerato is VERY intense and challenging. A large percentage of Spanish students end up repeating at least one year. The other post ESO-option is a 2 year vo-tech type course, called FP (Formación Profesional). There are dozens and dozens of courses available. It sounds like what they're offering your son is one of these FP courses.

Unless your son is 100% fluent in Spanish I would never recommend him doing Bachillerato. And he would need to be prepared to dedicate a large amount of his time to studying and memorizing the very challenging material presented.

 

I don't know of any high school that offers half day attendance for 12th grade. This is basically because the school system is totally different here. What is known as the ESO (obligatory secondary education) is 7th through 10th grades. After that kids have two options. One option is an intensive 2 year course called Bachillerato (11th and 12th grades) to prepare students for the university entrance exams. In Bachillerato students have to choose a branch or major depending on what major they'd like to study at university. Bachillerato is VERY intense and challenging. A large percentage of Spanish students end up repeating at least one year. The other post ESO-option is a 2 year vo-tech type course, called FP (Formación Profesional). There are dozens and dozens of courses available. It sounds like what they're offering your son is one of these FP courses.

Unless your son is 100% fluent in Spanish I would never recommend him doing Bachillerato. And he would need to be prepared to dedicate a large amount of his time to studying and memorizing the very challenging material presented.

It's also not a given that a non-Spanish speaker would even be accepted into state school for Bachi.

I personally know of several Ukrainian teens whose parents expected them to be able to do so, but without any Spanish they were refused. That, & education past age 16 isn't a right.

At least one of them started to do some studies in the (free) local adult education college after studying Spanish there for a couple of years.

 

No. My understanding had been that he would learn the language while in school and immersed in it.

 

Bachi is incredibly intense, even for native Spanish speakers, & less than 50% of students study for it. Many take three or four years to complete what is intended to be a two year course, leading to university.

For someone starting with no Spanish, I don't see how it would be possible to any of the exams.

As someone else said, it's more likely that the academy will offer some kind of formación profesional.

 

One of the problems with going into a Spanish education program is that they are not necessarily providing a course in Spanish to learn the language from start. The course would be more akin to an English course in high school, where more advanced concepts of sentence structure are taught, ie, grammar as opposed to vocabulary.
Taking courses in math, biology, geography, etc taught IN SPANISH while trying to learn Spanish would be daunting. We put our adopted 9 year old in the Spanish system, and after 2 years, she was still struggling. She did have another disadvantage, in that about half of the courses were taught in Valenciano, the other half in Spanish.