← Back to the rankingLycée français Chateaubriand de Rome
Rome, Italy · est. 1903 · Private
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Lycée français Chateaubriand de Rome is a French school in Rome founded in 1903 by Monsignor Charles Dumaz with the support of the French embassy to the Holy See; since 1921 its historic building has been Villa Patrizi. The school belongs to the network of French education abroad as an establishment directly managed by the AEFE agency and is accredited by the French Ministry of Education. It takes children from petite section maternelle to terminale under the French curriculum taught in French: about 800 students in primary and 700 in collège and lycée, with four classes per year group. 48% of students are Italian, 22% Franco-Italian, 20% French and 10% come from about forty other nationalities. All students learn Italian from maternelle and English from age 5-6; in the lycée students can earn the ESABAC double diploma (baccalauréat and esame di Stato) or choose the European section in English. In 2026 all graduates passed the baccalauréat.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $8 692–10 043 a year
7 694–8 890 EUR
Programmes
French programme · National programme
Admits from
3 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
French, English
Languages taught
Italian, Spanish, Latin
About the fees Tuition for 2026-2027 in Rome: maternelle and élémentaire 7694 euros a year, collège 8500 euros, lycée 8890 euros; paid three times a year, 4/10 of the amount in the first term and 3/10 in each of the second and third. Schooling is paid for all students regardless of nationality. French families may apply for an AEFE bursary through the French consulate; a solidarity fund is available to families of any nationality.
Admissions Pre-registration for all levels is online only; the application must include a birth certificate, identity documents of the child and parents, a certificate from the current school and school reports. The school does not accept children whose parents do not live in Italy during their schooling. Petite section admits children who turn 3 by 31 December of the year of enrolment, CP children who turn 6. Promotion decisions of French state and accredited schools, including the network abroad, are applied as they are; students from non-accredited or independent schools without a contract, even French-speaking ones, take a compulsory placement test. Places are allocated by the head after a committee review, within available capacity, by priority: children of French nationals and staff, siblings of current students, students from the AEFE network and French schools, former students, then children of alumni and French-speaking children. Enrolment is confirmed after the latest school report and payment of the first registration fee. Students of any nationality pay fees on the same terms; children with at least one Italian parent must study Italian language and culture in the LCN programme or choose ESABAC in the lycée.
Stages and year groups Grades Petite section - terminale (maternelle, élémentaire CP-CM2, collège 6e-3e, lycée seconde - terminale). French national curriculum: maternelle (ages 3-5), élémentaire (ages 6-11), collège (ages 11-14) with the diplôme national du brevet, lycée général (seconde, première, terminale) with the baccalauréat. Lycée specialities: mathematics, economics and social sciences, physics-chemistry, English language and literature (LLCE), humanities, literature and philosophy, life and earth sciences, history, geography and geopolitics. Tracks: ESABAC - double diploma baccalauréat and esame di Stato; LCN - Italian language and culture, compulsory for Italian nationals not taking ESABAC; European section in English (English with history-geography or with sciences). Options: art history, visual arts, ELCE (English, Spanish), a joint Latin and Ancient Greek course, expert and complementary mathematics, law. The school is a baccalauréat exam centre in Rome.
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
Exam results Baccalauréat 2026: all graduates passed, with no failures; 29% obtained the mention assez bien, 31% bien, 24% très bien and another 5% très bien with the jury's congratulations. About 15 students take part in the French Concours général each year.
Facilities from the school's official website
·Swimming poolnot stated on the website
·Sports hallnot stated on the website
✓Laboratories
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
✓Library
✓Catering
✓School transport
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Clubs and activities: Sports Association · ChateauMusique (music school) · Theatre Workshop · Chorale (choir) · Maths Club · Reporters' Club · Vegetable Garden Club · Science Club
Teaching staff
The school publishes neither the number of its teachers nor their 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 room
·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 Strohl-Fern and Malpighi sites each have an infirmary: a school doctor and a team of nurses, on average 300 student visits a month. The medical team carries out check-ups for CP, new students and 6e, manages individual plans for children with chronic illnesses and special needs, monitors vaccinations and canteen diets, runs sessions on smoking, addictions, nutrition, sexuality and violence at school, and confidentially listens to students who want to talk.
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 data80 Safety and wellbeing (12%) scored on disclosed data60 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data75 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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