← Back to homeÉcole française internationale de Tirana
Tirana, Albania · est. 2011 · Private
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A French international school in Tirana, founded in 2011, with more than 250 children from kindergarten to lycée. The school follows the official programmes of the French Ministry of Education and is accredited by the AEFE; it specifies that the French ministry recognises its programme up to CM2, and that from collège students follow the curriculum of the French national distance-learning centre CNED, taught on site by the school's teachers, and sit the Brevet and the French baccalaureate as school candidates. Alongside the French programme the school names "Cambridge international certifications" and "Cambridge International teaching", but does not say which Cambridge stages or exams it offers. From Petite Section lessons are in French and English, in kindergarten on a one-day-French, one-day-English basis, and from CP parents choose a bilingual or trilingual track; all students learn Albanian for 1 hour 30 minutes a week. Students may take Latin as an option or, through CNED, continue a language begun earlier: Italian, Chinese, Russian. Students include Albanians, French, Belgians, Slovenians, Americans, Italians, Spaniards, Algerians, Egyptians and Montenegrins. From September 2026 the school moved to a new campus on Rruga Jordan Misja near the city centre, built for more than 400 students.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · French programme
Admits from
2.5 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
French, English
Languages taught
Albanian, Italian, Chinese, Russian
Class size
no more than 25 students
Admissions The school is open to students of all nationalities and accepts applications all year. In primary school a good command of French is not required: after assessing language skills the school, with the family's agreement, gives children who have not been in the French system French lessons in small groups. In secondary school, children from French state schools, schools under contract with the state and AEFE-recognised schools are admitted according to their previous school's class council decision, while children from other systems take a French language assessment, after which the school decides what support they need. Admission has three steps: file review and an educational meeting within 5 working days, the committee's answer within 2-3 days, and payment of the first registration fee. The French government offers scholarships to children of French citizens registered with the consulate and living in Albania.
Stages and year groups Grades TPS, PS, MS, GS, CP - CM2, 6e - 3e, Seconde - Terminale. Maternelle: Très Petite Section from 2 years and 6 months, Petite Section from 3, Moyenne Section from 4, Grande Section from 5. Élémentaire runs from CP to CM2 for children aged 6-11. Collège lasts four years, from sixième to troisième, for children aged 11-15, and ends with the Brevet. Lycée is for ages 15-18, follows the CNED curriculum on site and ends with the French baccalaureate. Lessons run from 8:30 to 15:30 Monday to Thursday and until 12:30 on Friday.
Address Rruga Jordan Misja 66, Tiranë
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
AEFE · accreditationCambridge · authorised programmeschool 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.
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Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →CambridgeCambridge International Education
Part of the University of Cambridge. It allows a school to teach the Cambridge programmes and to enter pupils for the exams. There are four stages and they are authorised separately: primary, lower secondary, IGCSE and A Level. If the stages are known they are named in the line below; if that line is missing, the school does not publish them, and the Cambridge registry does not show stages either - it gives only the name of the centre, the country and whether private candidates are accepted. Cambridge calls what it does registration rather than accreditation, and the network holds about ten thousand schools.
What the badge means for this school. The school is allowed to run this programme and to award its certificate. This is a confirmation of the programme, not a judgement on the school as a whole. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it. Which stages - from the early years programme for three-year-olds up to A-Level - this school is approved for is not stated here.
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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.
Exams and destinations from the school's official website
Exam results The school reports a 100 percent pass rate in the Brevet with an average of 17 out of 20; it does not say for which year.
Facilities from the school's official website
·Swimming poolnot stated on the website
✓Sports hall
✓Laboratories
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
✓Library
✓Catering
✓School transport
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Art studio · Playground
Campus: The campus at Rruga Jordan Misja 66 opened in September 2026: 5000 m2 of grounds, of which 3500 m2 are indoor, a 600 m2 semi-covered sports hall for football, basketball, volleyball, badminton and tennis, two renovated courtyards and a separate kindergarten playground. Inside are two libraries, for primary and secondary, a computer room, a science laboratory, an art studio, a music room, rooms for French as a foreign language, a lounge for older students, a large cafeteria with a kitchen and a hall for events. Lunches are prepared by a caterer to menus drawn up by a nutritionist, and children may bring their own food. School minibuses with 7-20 seats, air conditioning and a seat belt on every seat collect children from home from age 3 and leave school at 15:35-15:40.
Clubs and activities: Singing · Football · Basketball · English conversation · Robotics · French as a foreign language · Art · Theatre · Game design and Photoshop · 3D modelling
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 sizein the key facts above
In kindergarten every teacher has a full-time assistant, and multilingual lessons are taught by native speakers. In secondary school the CNED curriculum is taught on site by the school's teachers, and in lycée by French teachers. Students new to French schooling are supported by teachers of French as a foreign language: daily intensive lessons for beginners, semi-intensive support of 5 hours a week, or help within the class. Every student has 1 hour of personalised support a week.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
·CCTVnot stated on the website
·Security staffnot stated on the website
✓Access control
·Nurse or medical roomnot stated on the website
·Counsellornot stated on the website
·Child protection policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
The school's new campus is fully fenced, with controlled access, safe circulation for students and facilities designed for evacuation and safety drills. The school calls student safety its top priority.
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