← Back to homeVauban, École et Lycée Français de Luxembourg
Luxembourg, Luxembourg · est. 1984 · Private
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Vauban is the largest French school in Luxembourg: about 2600 pupils from age 3 to Terminale, 112 classes, pupils of nearly 50 nationalities. The current school was formed in 2017 by merging École française de Luxembourg (founded 1993) and Lycée Vauban (founded 1984), and moved to its new Cloche d'Or campus the same year. It is a private non-profit school run by a parents' association, accredited by the French Ministry of Education and an AEFE partner school. Teaching is in French on the French curriculum: maternelle, élémentaire, collège with the DNB and lycée with the general bac and the STMG technological track. Languages are a priority: English and Luxembourgish from maternelle, German or Luxembourgish from CP, a British international section from CM1, German and British international sections from 6e to Terminale, the BFI diploma, and pupils in the German BFI track also receive the German Abitur. Language of instruction is inferred from the programme descriptions: all levels follow French programmes, and the school presents English, German and other languages as subjects and additional sections. Nurse and two psychologists on site every day, an anti-bullying listening unit, phones locked in pouches during the school day.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $5 139–6 546 a year
4 549–5 794 EUR
Programmes
French programme
Admits from
3 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
French
Languages taught
English, German, Luxembourgish, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, Latin
Students per teacher
about 10 pupils per teacher (2600 pupils and 257 teachers)
Class size
the school mentions reduced class sizes without giving numbers
Registration fee
≈ $226
200 EUR
About the fees Annual fee (minerval) for 2026-2027, approved by the general assembly in May 2026: maternelle 5090 EUR, élémentaire 4697 EUR, 6e and 5e 4549 EUR, 4e 4897 EUR, 3e 4965 EUR, 2nde 5021 EUR, 1re 5490 EUR, Terminale 5794 EUR; includes an investment fund contribution of 1064 EUR. Sections and options are extra: collège international section 460 EUR, 2nde 880 EUR, BFI 1320 EUR per year. Family discount: 630 EUR per year with two children at the school. French families can apply for AEFE bursaries, and the school has its own solidarity fund.
Admissions The school states: "Ouvert à toutes les nationalités". Pupils from the French system and from any other system are accepted, but from Grande Section to Terminale admission depends on entrance tests in French and maths; international sections and the BFI add a language test. Petite Section takes children who are 3 by 1 September. The child's legal residence must be in Luxembourg by the start of the school year; other cases are considered if places remain. Applications are online and reviewed by spring admission panels.
Stages and year groups Grades PS-Terminale, 112 classes. Levels: maternelle (PS, MS, GS), élémentaire (CP-CM2), collège (6e-3e) with the DNB, lycée (2nde, 1re, Terminale) with the general bac and the STMG track. The school describes itself as "établissement de droit privé, homologué Education nationale française et partenaire du réseau AEFE" and describes accreditation for the whole school "de la maternelle au baccalauréat"; there is no level-by-level list of accredited classes on the site. Language programmes: British international section from CM1, German and British international sections from 6e to Terminale, BFI in 1re and Terminale (German or English), European sections from 2nde (German, English, Italian). The school states: "Les élèves inscrits en BFI bilingue Allemand se voient délivrer les deux diplômes : Baccalauréat français international et Abitur". The school is an AEFE exam centre.
Address 1-3, rue Albert Einstein, L-1484 Luxembourg
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
AEFE · accreditationZfA · language examinationPASCH · takes part in the programmeThe AEFE register gives the school partenaire status; the school says it is accredited by the French Ministry of Education from maternelle to baccalauréat. ZfA lists it as a school with a German language profile (DPS), and it is a PASCH school.
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.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →ZfACentral Agency for German Schools Abroad
A German federal agency. It recognises a school as a German school abroad, funds it and grants the right to award the German leaving certificate. Quality is examined by a state inspection about once every six years, and schools that pass receive the mark of an excellent German school abroad.
What the badge means for this school. The organisation grants the school the right to prepare pupils for its language examination and to sit it. That is all the entry says: the examination covers one subject, the other subjects follow whatever curriculum the school works to, and no inspection of the school as a whole stands behind it. The diploma is real and the register is public, so the entry is shown - but on its own it does not bring a school into the ranking, by the same measure as an examination centre. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →PASCHSchools: Partners for the Future, an initiative of the German foreign ministry
More than two thousand schools in about 120 countries. A school cannot apply for itself: participants are chosen by German agencies in agreement with the embassy. Very different schools sit under one mark - full German schools abroad, and ordinary national schools that simply teach German well.
What the badge means for this school. The school belongs to a German support programme. By itself the mark means neither a German curriculum nor the right to award a German certificate: of the two thousand PASCH schools, about seventeen hundred hold no such right. Look for a ZfA status next to it - that is the one that is about this. The entry is confirmed in the organisation's open directory.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →French programme
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 According to the school, in 2026 100% of candidates passed the bac and 92,3% obtained a distinction (mention).
Where leavers go: Université Paris-Dauphine · IESEG · NEOMA · ESCP · Erasmus University Rotterdam · McGill University · HEC Montréal · King's College London · ESADE · Solvay Brussels School · University of Navarra · INSA Lyon
and others, 22 universities in the school's list in allGraduates go on to study in France, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Germany. According to the school, 25% choose business and management, 23% science and technology, 12% medicine, 9% preparatory classes for the grandes écoles, 7% humanities, 7% law, 5% political science.
Facilities from the school's official website
·Swimming poolnot stated on the website
✓Sports hall
·Laboratoriesnot stated on the website
✓Theatre or assembly hall
·Librarynot stated on the website
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Makerspace
Campus: 5,4 ha, 45000 m²
Clubs and activities: Chorale (choir) · Theatre · Arts plastiques (visual arts) · Aquarelle (watercolour) · Piano · Guitare (guitar) · Calligraphie chinoise (Chinese calligraphy) · MATh.en.JEANS (maths research) · Robotique (robotics) · Makerspace MS20 · Club débat (debate) · Modèle des Nations Unies (Model United Nations) · Webjournal Alèthéïa (online school magazine) · Webradio Vauban oN aiR (school radio) · Club écologie (ecology) · AS Vauban (sports association) · Escalade (climbing) · Boxe (boxing) · Tennis de table (table tennis) · Badminton · Danse (dance)
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
✓Teacher qualifications
✓Number of teachers257
✓Students per teacher or class sizein the key facts above
What the listings show: teachers on local contracts holding a qualified teacher diploma, secondment from the French Ministry of Education possible
The school publishes key staff figures: 257 teachers and 388 employees in total. Teachers are hired on local Luxembourg contracts and must hold a qualified teacher diploma.
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 trainingnot stated on the website
✓Anti-bullying policy
The infirmary is open every day and two psychologists see pupils daily with or without an appointment. A listening unit (cellule d'écoute) handles bullying and conflicts, and pupils train as peer mediators in the S-Team project. From 6e to Terminale phones are locked in pouches for the whole day and internet access is restricted by age. There are internal rules and an anti-bullying prevention programme in form-time sessions.
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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 data75 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)90 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data70 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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