The Lycée Jean Renoir in München is a French school of the AEFE network, founded in 1953, from kindergarten to the final year; more than 1200 children attend. The school has two campuses: kindergarten and primary in Giesing, collège and lycée in Sendling. French education ministry curricula are complemented by Bavarian curricula for German language, culture and civilisation. The primary school is recognised by Bavaria as an Ersatzschule, and the kindergarten is a private Kindergarten recognised by the city. Kindergarten and primary are bilingual on the principle of reciprocal immersion: each class has a French and a German teacher, half the lessons are in French and half in German, and history, geography and science are taught in German. English starts in grade 4, Spanish and Latin are optional in collège. The lycée offers four routes: the French baccalauréat, the AbiBac (the baccalauréat and the Abitur at once, recognised by the Bavarian ministry), the trilingual Baccalauréat Français International (French, American English, Spanish) since 2024, and the European English section. In 2025, 99% of graduates passed the baccalauréat and all passed the AbiBac. Tuition is fee-paying for all students.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $6 259–8 885 a year
5 540–7 865 EUR
Programmes
French programme · National programme
Admits from
2.83 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
French, German
Languages taught
English, Spanish, Latin
Class size
no more than 12 children in kindergarten morning groups; no more than 25 in kindergarten afternoon groups; about a hundred students per year group in collège
Registration fee
≈ $1 130
1 000 EUR
About the fees Fees for 2026-2027, per year: kindergarten 6070 euros with pick-up at 13:00 and 6675 euros with pick-up at 14:00 (later pick-up on a separate price list), primary 5540 euros, collège 7525 euros, lycée 7865 euros; school supplies and secondary textbooks are not included. Payment is by term (40%, 30%, 30%). Discounts: 20% for the third child, 25% for the fourth, 35% for the fifth and subsequent children. French families can receive an AEFE scholarship, deducted from the fees.
Admissions The school admits children of any nationality, and tuition is fee-paying for everyone. The kindergarten takes children from 2 years 10 months: first the child is registered in the city's Kita Finder, then an account is created on the school's Eduka platform; new students for primary, collège and lycée register through Eduka, and the class is set by year of birth. A medical examination is required before grade 1. Children who have never attended the French system get French as a language of schooling classes (FLSco); in grade 6 newcomers without German are taught intensively in a beginners' group. The AbiBac is chosen at the end of grade 9; the AbiBac and the European section cannot be combined. The registration fee is paid within 15 days of confirmation. French families living in the consular district can apply for an AEFE scholarship through the consulate general in München.
Stages and year groups Kindergarten (TPS, PS, MS, GS, from 2 years 10 months to 6) is bilingual: each class has a teacher and a German educator (Erzieherin), mornings are spent in groups of up to 12 children equally in French and German, afternoons on play and socialisation as in a German Kita. Primary CP-CM2 (grades 1-5 in the German system, Ersatzschule): half the lessons in French and half in German, history, geography and science in German, English from CM1. Collège 6e-3e (about a hundred students per year): 6 hours of German in level groups (beginners, German as a foreign language, German with German Gymnasium textbooks), 3 hours of English, optional Latin and Spanish from grade 7, optional history and geography in German (DNL), the ELCE English culture option in grades 8-9; exam: Diplôme national du brevet. Lycée seconde to terminale: specialities mathematics, physics-chemistry, SVT, geopolitics, SES, HLP, LLCE; the French baccalauréat, the AbiBac (German and history-geography in German, the Abitur awarded by the Bavarian ministry), the Baccalauréat Français International (since 2024), the European English section (SVT in English). Certificates: DSD I and II (free), Cambridge English B2 First and C1 Advanced (paid), DELE A2/B1 - language exams, not a Cambridge International programme. There is no IB.
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.
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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.
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 2025: 99% passed, AbiBac 100%, 93.5% with distinctions, 70% with bien or très bien. 2024: all 96 graduates passed, 32 très bien, 12 with the jury's congratulations, 39 obtained the double baccalauréat and Abitur diploma. 2023: all 106 passed, 51 très bien, 31 double diplomas. 2022: 102 of 103 passed.
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 transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Art studio · Playground
Clubs and activities: Association sportive (school sports association) · Acrogym-cirque (acrobatics and circus) · Badminton · Kinn-ball (kin-ball) · Tennis de table (table tennis) · Football · Basket-ball (basketball) · Volley-ball (volleyball) · Club BD-mangas (comics and manga club) · Club éco-jardin (eco-garden club) · Club MUN (Model United Nations) · Atelier arts plastiques (visual arts workshop) · Jeunes reporters (young reporters) · Formation jeunes interprètes (young interpreters training) · Atelier de théâtre lycéen (high school theatre workshop)
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 each class is led by a teacher and a German educator; in primary by a French and a German teacher who team-teach part of the hours; an absent teacher is always replaced by qualified staff. The school does not give the number of teachers.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
·CCTVnot stated on the website
✓Security staff
✓Access control
✓Nurse or medical room
·Counsellornot stated on the website
✓Child protection policy
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
✓Anti-bullying policy
Nurses work on both campuses; there are contact persons for preventing violence and sexual offences (the nurse, the education counsellor CPE, the student life service), the French anti-bullying programme pHARe with a team and student ambassadors, a coordinator for students with special needs, and rules for primary and secondary. Access to the buildings is strictly controlled, with a guard at the entrance; children are handed over only to parents or persons with written authorisation.
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 data85 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.
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