IES Simarro is a High School and Technical High School with a large number of students. It has students from a wide area of small towns surrounding the mind city of Xàtiva. In addition to regular formation, it offers technical courses (Formación profesional) in Finance and Management, Computer programming and System administration, and civil construction.
The teachers have undergone an updating in computer aided learning tools, and are involved in new techniques, tools and methodologies. There's a large group of computer programming teachers that support and help any other into discovering and using computer into teaching.
This high school stems from the merging of several technical courses from two different high schools, with a previous regular high school and some new technical courses for students with high risk of early retirment. The school as it is today started the activity in early 2010.