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Pozuelo de Alarcon, Spain · est. 1856 · Private
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Saint Louis des Français, in Spanish Colegio San Luis de los Franceses, is a private co-educational Catholic trilingual school in Pozuelo de Alarcón near Madrid. It belongs to the charitable Œuvre Saint Louis des Français, which goes back to a hospital foundation of 1613 and has been headed by the French ambassador to Spain since 1856, and since 1964 it has been under the spiritual care of the Carmelite Institut Notre Dame de Vie; all of the school's surplus, by its own account, goes to charity. The college was founded in 1856; today it has about 1100 pupils from the crèche to the baccalaureate, from one to eighteen years old. The school runs two paths: a French one, accredited by the French Ministry of Education in partnership with AEFE, and a Spanish bilingual one. In kindergarten the day runs half in Spanish and half in French; in primary the French path teaches more than 72 percent of subjects in French and the bilingual path more than 50 percent; in secondary the Label France Education programme gives 40 percent of time in French. English with native teachers runs from age three and in the upper years for 4 hours a week. At the end the school offers the Spanish bachillerato in all streams, the Bachibac, the French baccalaureate and the American diploma through the Dual programme; the school is an official Cambridge examination centre and prepares for DELF and DALF. The school names four pillars of its education itself: Christian faith, tradition, trilingualism and continuous improvement. The school has five dining rooms with its own kitchen, a doctor and a nurse, psychologists, and school buses across Madrid and the north-west of the region.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $5 033–7 849 a year
4 455–6 948 EUR
Admits from
1 year · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
French, Spanish
Students
About 1100 pupils from the crèche to the baccalaureate
Summer camp
Yes, for its own pupils only
About the fees The school publishes its fees itself, in a summary table for the 2025-2026 school year, in euros per year including languages: kindergarten at 1-2 years 4455 euros, 3-5 years 4707, primary years 1 to 4: 5076, years 5-6: 5940, ESO years 1-2: 6255, years 3-4: 6471, bachillerato 6948 euros. The fee is debited in nine payments from September to May, on the 4th of each month for the month just ended. The school gives a discount to large families; it does not apply to languages.
Admissions The school describes admission in four steps: contact by telephone or through a form, a visit to the school during school hours, an interview of the family and the child with the head, and formal enrolment. From the first year of primary, the family brings the marks of the last three terms to the interview; depending on the previous school, tests are set, above all in languages, so that support can be planned in advance. The school states directly that it takes children who do not speak French and children who do not speak Spanish at every stage from kindergarten to the lycée, with accelerated language learning, and runs a programme for newly arrived pupils with language needs. After the application is confirmed, the child's documents are handed in within a month, permissions are signed and an enrolment fee is paid.
Stages and year groups Grades crèche (from 1 year) - 2nd year of bachillerato (18 years). The early years stage is the crèche and kindergarten from 1 to 5 years: from two, children get used to Spanish and French, and from three the day runs half in each language with English twice a week. Primary runs on two paths: the French accredited one, where mathematics is in French on the French programme, and the Spanish bilingual one, where it is in Spanish; English is 3 hours a week from CP to CM1 and 4 hours in CM2 and the 6th year. Secondary ESO follows the Label France Education programme, and in the 3rd year the French Diplôme National du Brevet is sat. The bachillerato covers all Spanish streams: sciences, humanities, social sciences and arts; the Bachibac, the French baccalaureate or the American Dual diploma can be added to it. The school day runs Monday to Thursday from 8:45 to 17:00, on Friday to 16:00, in the 2nd year of bachillerato to 15:00.
Address Calle Portugalete 1, 28223 Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
AEFE · accreditationschool 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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Exam results At the PAU of 2025 all pupils presented passed with an average of 11.22 out of 14; in earlier years the average was 11.29 in 2024, 11.46 in 2023 and 11.20 in 2022. The Bachibac average was 8.92 out of 10 in 2025, 8.68 in 2024 and 8.63 in 2023. In the external assessment of the Community of Madrid in the 4th year of ESO the school scored 530 in Spanish, 560 in English, 535 in mathematics and 587 in social sciences against averages for the western area of Madrid from 513 to 526. Graduates receive 11-13 excellence scholarships a year.
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
✓Library
✓Catering
✓School transport
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Campus: A campus in Pozuelo de Alarcón: a main building, a separate kindergarten building, primary and secondary buildings and a sports complex. Secondary classrooms are spacious, light and recently renovated, with computer rooms and iPad sets. Five school dining rooms with their own kitchen and menus by a nutritionist, a trilingual library and media centre, and a medical room with a doctor and a nurse. A network of school buses covers Madrid and the north-west of the region. The school is open from 8:00 to 19:00.
Clubs and activities: Ceramics · Dance · Drawing and painting · Graphic design and photography · Calligraphy · Music and movement · Creative workshop · Theatre · Singing and choir · Music ensemble · Guitar · Piano · Violin · English · English conversation · Cambridge exam preparation · Basketball · Cycling · Football · Rhythmic gymnastics · Taekwondo · Ice skating · Athletics · Tennis · Volleyball · Chess · Robotics · Explorers (girls' scouting) · Adventurers (scouting) · Toujours SLF
Summer camp: the school runs its own camp, but only for its own pupils
Summer programme away from campus:
The school groups Exploratrices for girls and Aventuriers for boys, run on the scout model, hold an away camp in summer for pupils of their years. The school announces no separate summer camp for outside children.
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 school does not publish the number of teachers or their qualifications. It writes that in kindergarten the children work with native or fully bilingual teachers, that English in secondary and the bachillerato is taught by native speakers for 4 hours a week, and that teachers continually train and review their methods. The guidance department consists of psychologists, educational psychologists and support teachers; the heads of its areas are named: Ana Piñeiro, Silvia Casabuena and Loli Cabaleiro.
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 room
✓Counsellor
✓Child protection policy
✓Staff training
✓Anti-bullying policy
The school keeps a school life plan with a convivencia team of management, teacher mediators, pupil mediators and psychologists, and a wellbeing coordinator who convenes it once a month and as needed. Prevention includes emotional intelligence sessions, a conflict resolution patrol, pupil mediators from the 6th year, and talks on bullying, social networks and addictions with the police; the school applies the protocols of the Community of Madrid. A doctor and a nurse work at the school, there are three defibrillators and all staff are trained to use them; every pupil has an annual medical check.
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Academics and programmes (16%)60 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 data80 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data80 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.
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