← Back to the rankingDeutsch-Französische Grundschule Stuttgart-Sillenbuch
Stuttgart, Germany · est. 1999 · State
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The Deutsch-Französische Grundschule Stuttgart-Sillenbuch (École élémentaire franco-allemande de Stuttgart-Sillenbuch) is one of the largest primary schools in Stuttgart, opened on 1 September 1999 under an agreement between the Baden-Württemberg education ministry, the City of Stuttgart and the AEFE, which merged the local German primary school in Sillenbuch with the former French private school École Georges Cuvier. Two sections share one building. The French bilingual section (8 classes) follows the French Education nationale curriculum with elements of the Baden-Württemberg curriculum: between a third and a half of lessons are in German, taught by French and German teachers; this section is accredited by the French education ministry. The German section follows the state curriculum: the model school takes children from all over Stuttgart and teaches French from grade 1 (2 hours a week in grades 1-2, 4 hours in grades 3-4) or English, while the local Sillenbuch school teaches English from grade 3. German and French classes work in partner pairs. About 400 children currently attend in 17 classes, and more than 40 countries are represented in the school community. The school prepares children for a path leading to the AbiBac. Tuition is free; after-school care and lunch are paid.
Key facts
Programmes
French programme · National programme
Languages of instruction
French, German
About the fees Tuition at this state school is free. Additional care modules under the city fee table and lunch from the external caterer are paid.
Admissions The French section admits children to CP who turn 6 by 30 June (younger children at the parents' request under certain conditions). Stuttgart families first complete the regular school registration (Schuleinschreibung) at their local primary school and state there that they want the French section; the local school's consent is not needed, because the school has a special status under the state school law and catchment rules do not apply to it. The family then sends the school an application form with a copy of the birth certificate or family record book and proof of measles vaccination. Families from other municipalities should first check the local procedure with their local primary school. The form asks for the child's nationality and level of French and German, from beginner to native. For higher grades the school report and a leaving certificate from the previous school are attached. The German model-school section takes children from all over Stuttgart and the surrounding area regardless of residence, and the local school takes children from Sillenbuch. Information evenings are held for future CP parents.
Stages and year groups Grades 1-4 (CP-CM1), 17 classes. A primary school, grades 1-4: in the German section 1.-4. Klasse under the Baden-Württemberg curriculum, in the French bilingual section CP, CE1, CE2, CM1 under the French Education nationale curriculum with elements of the state curriculum (a third to a half of lessons in German). There are 17 classes: 9 in the German section and 8 in the French section. There are no IB, Cambridge or Abitur qualifications; the school says it prepares children for a path leading to the AbiBac. The école maternelle kindergarten is a separate institution nearby (maternelle-stuttgart.de).
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
AEFE · accreditationAEFE runs the school directly (établissement en gestion directe): the curriculum is French and recognised by the French education ministry.
school is in an official registryconfirmed by a school document, by membership or by taking part in a networkclaimed by the school, no confirmation, not counted in the scoreGuide to all organisations → What stands behind each entry
AEFEAgency for French Education Abroad
It runs the network of French schools worldwide, while the accreditation itself, the homologation, is granted by the French education ministry and inspected by French state inspectors. A leaver from a homologated school moves into a school in France without an entrance examination. Homologation is granted stage by stage, so it sometimes covers only part of the year groups.
What the badge means for this school. The school has been through this organisation's accreditation. It was judged as a whole: governance, safeguarding, staff, premises, teaching. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it.
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The state programme of France. A school is homologated by the French ministry of education, and a leaver may move into a school in France without entrance tests. Homologation is granted stage by stage, so it sometimes covers only part of the year groups.
What this means for this school. Which year groups of this school are covered by homologation - only the primary ones, or all the way to the final year - is not stated here. The difference matters: it decides whether the school takes a child through to the French baccalaureate or hands them on to another school halfway.
National programme
The state school programme of the country the school stands in: it is set by that country's ministry of education, which also licenses the school and awards the leaving certificate. That certificate is used for entry to local universities, and abroad it is matched to the local one.
What this means for this school. This entry does not count towards the score, and that is deliberate. Every lawful school in a country works to the national programme, so on its own it tells one school apart from no other - unlike the French, German or Russian programmes, which are carried abroad and confirmed by the register of their organisation. We show it because a parent needs to know what programme their child is taught and what certificate the child will get. Counting it would lift the whole ranking at once and still tell nobody apart.
Exams and destinations from the school's official website
The school publishes nothing about where its leavers go: no share going on to university, no exam results, no list of universities.
Facilities from the school's official website
·Swimming poolnot stated on the website
✓Sports hall
·Laboratoriesnot stated on the website
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
·Librarynot stated on the website
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Campus: The school occupies an old building with the main entrance and bicycle yard, a side building, a pavilion and a new building with the canteen; the city is adding a two-storey building for all-day care and administration and enlarging the canteen. There is a gym. Lunch is prepared by an external caterer and ordered through its portal. The school is an all-day school by family choice: in full-day classes lessons run Monday to Thursday 8:00-15:00 and on Fridays until 11:30-13:15, with four individual learning hours replacing homework and themed afternoon sessions; in half-day classes lessons end at 11:30-13:15 with lunchtime care until 14:00. Early care from 7:00, late care until 17:00 and holiday care for 10 weeks a year are run by Stuttgarter Jugendhaus Gesellschaft. The city library's book bus stops at the school on Thursdays.
Clubs and activities: Themenunterricht: Natur & Welt entdecken (theme lessons: discovering nature and the world) · Themenunterricht: Ich & Du (theme lessons: me and you) · Themenunterricht: Wissen und Technik (theme lessons: knowledge and technology) · Themenunterricht: Musik & Kunst (theme lessons: music and art) · Themenunterricht: Sport & Bewegung (theme lessons: sport and movement) · Zirkusschule Circuli (circus school) · Religion
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
·Teacher qualificationsnot stated
·Number of teachersthe school does not say
·Students per teacher or class sizenot stated
The French section is taught by French primary teachers (professeurs des écoles) and German state primary teachers, and the German section also by teachers of both countries; there is one shared staff. In full-day classes a care educator works alongside the teacher in the morning in grades 1-2, and a second teacher in grades 3-4. The school is led by a head, a deputy head and the head of the French section. The school does not publish teacher numbers or qualifications.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
·CCTVnot stated on the website
·Security staffnot stated on the website
·Access controlnot stated on the website
·Nurse or medical roomnot stated on the website
✓Counsellor
✓Child protection policy
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
Supervision starts at 7:50, and teachers in high-visibility vests supervise breaks. If a child is absent in the morning without notice, the school looks for the child and phones the parents. Phones and smartwatches must stay switched off in school bags; if the rule is broken, the device is kept until a parent collects it. A school social worker is on site several days a week; school partners include self-assertion training, the police and a road safety school.
Reviews
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Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)72 Community rating (16%)no dataparent reviews are needed: the criterion switches on at the fifth verified one Exams and destinations (12%) scored on disclosed data55 Safety and wellbeing (12%) scored on disclosed data65 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data70 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data78 "Scored on disclosed data" stands where we count only what the school has written about itself on its own site: exams and destinations, safety and wellbeing, teaching staff, facilities, clubs and activities. A low score here means the school does not write about this, not that the school does not have it: a school with good security and a sparse site will score low. A school can fill in its profile, and the score will be counted again.
The score is counted from 8 of the 9 criteria.Only those with checkable data count: programmes and accreditations from official registers, the fee from a published price list. Where it says "scored on the median", the school has no data and the middle of the list is put in its place, so that a gap gives no advantage. Admissions, teaching staff and reviews come in as their data arrives.
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