GENERAL INFORMATION
Admissions for the school year starting September 2025 will open on 1st January 2025.
Please find below the official testing dates for entry in the school year beginning September 2025.
Mid-year entry applications will be assessed on an individual basis.
Lycée : Wednesday 12th March 2025
College 6ème : Friday 7th March 2025
Other College levels : Wednesday 12th March 2025
Primary (GS – CM2) : Wednesday 12th March 2025 in the morning
GrandChêne Section Internationale (the Section) offers bilingual programmes to children from Maternelle (5 years old) to Lycée (18 years old).
With the exception of the Wednesday Primary programme, all our programmes are integrated in French public schools where the children spend 80% of their time at school working on the French curriculum. It is important to remember that the students are first and foremost part of their French school, where solid competencies in French and Maths are necessary for being accepted into the Section*.
Our integrated programmes follow the official Section Internationale curriculum recognised by the French Ministry of Education.
*We can accept applications for students not yet speaking French. Our partner school, Collège Pasteur, has a French immersion programme.
Applications will be accepted after the deadlines whilst places are available. These will be subject to individual or distance testing.
There are however administrative deadlines which we must keep so we encourage you to apply as early as possible.
Please contact us for further information.
Please contact us for further information.
Unclear about the school levels in the French education system? Click here for a comparison of the school levels in the French, British and American systems.
We charge a non-refundable, minimal fee of 105 euros to cover administrative costs of the applications. The application fee is to be paid by credit card (Visa or Mastercard) when submitting your application online.
If your child is invited to test, you will be requested to pay the following additional fees.
- Official Testing dates in France : 50 Euros
- Individual Testing in France: 110 Euros
Levels GS & CP = 75 Euros - Distance Testing: 110 Euros
Levels GS & CP = 75 Euros
- French/Maths Testing (France/Distance): 100 Euros
- CP “Passage Sécurisé” = 50 Euros
All candidates for CP Primary Integrated need to sit this test
The testing will be both written and oral to evaluate the children’s comprehension, grammar and writing skills.
For families living abroad, we appreciate that returning to France for official testing dates is not easy (in the current situation in particular), especially if more than one child is concerned.
We will always try to accommodate families with children of different ages when organising individual testing in France.
We can organise distance testing for your children with help from their current school.We also have solutions in place to proceed with testing when schools abroad are closed.
Please click here to find out more about our distance testing procedure.
All applications will be processed through our
Online Applications platform.
No paper documents will be accepted.