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Ashgabat, Turkmenistan · est. 1995 · Private
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A French school in Ashgabat, opened in 1995 for the children of expatriate employees of Bouygues Turkmen; it is run educationally by the Mission laïque française (MLF) and is a partner school in the AEFE network. The school is located on the Bouygues residential compound where pupils' families live. Teaching is in French under the French curriculum: preschool and primary classes, from petite section to CM2, are officially recognised by the French Ministry of Education (homologuées), while collège and lycée students follow CNED distance courses supported by teachers. At the start of the 2026 school year the school has 20 pupils, from PS to Terminale. In the primary timetable lessons run in the morning and afternoon, Wednesdays mornings only; there is no canteen and no school bus. English, Russian and Spanish are taught as foreign languages. According to the MLF, all pupils passed the Diplôme national du brevet over the last three years ("100% de réussite").
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $5 649–7 908 a year
5 000–7 000 EUR
Programmes
French programme
Languages of instruction
French
Languages taught
English, Russian, Spanish
Registration fee
≈ $621
550 EUR
About the fees For children of Bouygues TKM employees tuition is paid by the company ("L'école est prise en charge par l'entreprise pour les collaborateurs Bouygues TKM"). For other families, from September 1, 2026, annual tuition is: maternelle 5000 euros, élémentaire 6000 euros, collège and lycée 7000 euros.
Admissions The school was founded for the children of Bouygues employees, but within available places it admits all French children and children of other nationalities who wish to study in a French school: "L'établissement accueille également, dans la limite des places disponibles, tous les élèves français ou d'autres nationalités qui souhaitent étudier dans une école française : enfants d'expatriés d'entreprises et d'organismes internationaux ou privés" ("The school also admits, within available places, all French pupils and pupils of other nationalities who wish to study in a French school: children of expatriates of companies and of international or private organisations"). The MLF names children of French Embassy and European Union staff and of local entrepreneurs among them.
Stages and year groups Grades Petite section - Terminale. Maternelle (PS, MS, GS) and élémentaire (CP - CM2) are officially recognised by the French Ministry of Education; collège and lycée follow CNED courses supported by teachers. At the start of the 2026 school year: PS-MS-GS 4 pupils, CP-CE1-CE2 5, CM1-CM2 3, 6e-5e 4, 3e 2, 2de-Tle 2. Primary timetable: lessons 8:30 to 12:00 Monday to Friday and 14:00 to 16:00 on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays; older pupils follow individual timetables.
Address Base vie Bouygues, Shor-Garadamak, 744006 Ashgabat, Turkménistan
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
AEFE · accreditationMission laïque française · school is part of the networkThe AEFE register gives the school partenaire status. According to the school itself, the French ministry's homologation covers only Petite section to CM2, that is nursery and primary; collège and lycée follow CNED distance courses with teachers on site. The school is run by the Mission laïque française for the Bouygues company.
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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.
Mission laïque françaiseschool network
Mission laïque française (MLF) is a French non-profit association founded in 1902; its school network is called Réseau mlfmonde. The network gives different figures on its own pages - 108 schools in 38 countries on some, 107 schools in 37 countries on another, with more than 61,000 students in both cases - and we quote both. In Spain the network lists 10 lycées, in Alicante, Murcia, Palma, Reus, Seville, Telde (Gran Canaria), Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Valladolid, Villanueva de la Cañada (Madrid) and Zaragoza. In a notice dated 21 September 2026, MLF writes that since 1 September 2026 the day-to-day management of its Spanish schools has been entrusted to the association AFLEC-GEE under a management mandate, refers to 9 schools, and says the legal transfer of each will be completed by 31 July 2028 at the latest. The notice does not say which of the ten schools is not among the nine. The network's site is mlfmonde.org.
What this means for this school. The network owns or operates the school. Its accreditation and programme authorisation the school obtains separately, in its own name.
Exams and destinations from the school's official website
Exam results Diplôme national du brevet: "100% de réussite" (all pupils passed) over the last three years, according to the Mission laïque française.
Facilities from the school's official website
·Swimming poolnot stated on the website
·Sports hallnot stated on the website
·Laboratoriesnot stated on the website
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
·Librarynot stated on the website
·Cateringnot stated on the website
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Campus:
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 teaching team is listed by name: a head of school, 10 teachers and an administrative staff member who teaches English. Teachers cover preschool and primary classes, humanities and philosophy, social sciences, mathematics and natural sciences, music and art, PE, Spanish, and Russian at all levels.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
The school says nothing on its website about security, medical care or pupil support.
Reviews
No reviews yet. The community rating counts towards the score once a school has five verified reviews - until then we do not show a zero, so as not to mislead.
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 data80 Safety and wellbeing (12%) scored on disclosed data55 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data60 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data55 "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.
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