Government-run schools abroad

French Schools Abroad (AEFE)

The AEFE is the French State agency for French-curriculum schools abroad: 640 homologated schools in 140 countries with 400,000+ pupils (2026).

Owner / parent
French State (Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs / Ministry of Education)
Headquarters
France
640 schools stated by the group (Nov 2026)
Curricula
French national
638 schools listed · 567 open on GoSam

School locations

The map shows only schools with a location on GoSam.

Schools by country

Lebanon(68)

United States(55)

Morocco(45)

Tunisia(35)

Madagascar(25)

Spain(23)

Senegal(18)

Egypt(17)

Germany(16)

Switzerland(15)

Côte d’Ivoire(14)

Monaco(12)

  • Collège Charles-III

    Monaco

    AEFE status: partenaire (P) / Partenaire. AEFE listing country: Monaco.

    PartnerSources
  • Cours Saint-Maur

    Monaco

    AEFE status: partenaire (P) / Partenaire. AEFE listing country: Monaco.

    PartnerSources
  • École de Fontvieille

    Monaco

    AEFE status: partenaire (P) / Partenaire. AEFE listing country: Monaco.

    PartnerSources
  • École de la Condamine

    Monaco

    AEFE status: partenaire (P) / Partenaire. AEFE listing country: Monaco.

    PartnerSources
  • École des Carmes

    Monaco

    AEFE status: partenaire (P) / Partenaire. AEFE listing country: Monaco.

    PartnerSources
  • École des Révoires

    Monaco

    AEFE status: partenaire (P) / Partenaire. AEFE listing country: Monaco.

    PartnerSources
  • École du Parc

    Monaco

    AEFE status: partenaire (P) / Partenaire. AEFE listing country: Monaco.

    PartnerSources
  • École Saint-Charles

    Monaco

    AEFE status: partenaire (P) / Partenaire. AEFE listing country: Monaco.

    PartnerSources
  • École Stella

    Monaco

    AEFE status: partenaire (P) / Partenaire. AEFE listing country: Monaco.

    PartnerSources
  • Établissement François-d'Assise-Nicolas-Barré

    Monaco

    AEFE status: partenaire (P) / Partenaire. AEFE listing country: Monaco.

    PartnerSources
  • Lycée Albert-1er

    Monaco

    AEFE status: partenaire (P) / Partenaire. AEFE listing country: Monaco.

    PartnerSources
  • Lycée Rainier-III

    Monaco

    AEFE status: partenaire (P) / Partenaire. AEFE listing country: Monaco.

    PartnerSources

Gabon(11)

United Arab Emirates(10)

United Kingdom(10)

Canada(9)

China(9)

Australia(8)

Thailand(8)

Vietnam(8)

Italy(7)

Mali(7)

Mexico(7)

Chile(6)

Mauritania(6)

Cameroon(5)

Colombia(5)

Israel(5)

Cambodia(5)

Mauritius(5)

Saudi Arabia(5)

India(4)

Portugal(4)

Singapore(4)

Togo(4)

Brazil(3)

Congo - Kinshasa(3)

Ecuador(3)

Netherlands(3)

Qatar(3)

Angola(2)

Argentina(2)

Belgium(2)

Burkina Faso(2)

Bulgaria(2)

Benin(2)

Bolivia(2)

Congo - Brazzaville(2)

Cape Verde(2)

Djibouti(2)

Dominican Republic(2)

Algeria(2)

Greece(2)

Hong Kong(2)

Indonesia(2)

Iraq(2)

  • École internationale française Danielle-Mitterrand d'Erbil

    Erbil

    AEFE status: partenaire (P) / Partenaire. AEFE listing country: Irak.

    PartnerSources
  • École internationale française Danielle-Mitterrand de Sulaymaniyah

    Sulaymaniyah

    AEFE status: partenaire (P) / Partenaire. AEFE listing country: Irak.

    PartnerSources

Japan(2)

Kenya(2)

South Korea(2)

Laos(2)

Luxembourg(2)

Nigeria(2)

Peru(2)

Poland(2)

Russia(2)

Chad(2)

Türkiye(2)

Taiwan(2)

South Africa(2)

Albania(1)

Armenia(1)

Austria(1)

Bosnia & Herzegovina(1)

Bangladesh(1)

Bahrain(1)

  • Lycée français de Bahreïn

    Muharraq

    AEFE status: partenaire (P) / Partenaire. AEFE listing country: Bahreïn.

    PartnerSources

Burundi(1)

Central African Republic(1)

Costa Rica(1)

Cuba(1)

Cyprus(1)

Czechia(1)

Denmark(1)

Ethiopia(1)

  • Lycée franco-éthiopien Guébré-Mariam

    Addis-Abeba

    AEFE status: conventionné (C) / Conventionné. AEFE listing country: Éthiopie.

    Member schoolSources

Finland(1)

Georgia(1)

Ghana(1)

Gambia(1)

Guinea(1)

Equatorial Guinea(1)

Guatemala(1)

Guinea-Bissau(1)

Honduras(1)

Croatia(1)

Haiti(1)

Hungary(1)

Ireland(1)

Iran(1)

Jordan(1)

Comoros(1)

Kuwait(1)

Kazakhstan(1)

Sri Lanka(1)

Lithuania(1)

Latvia(1)

Montenegro(1)

North Macedonia(1)

Myanmar (Burma)(1)

  • Lycée français international de Rangoun - Joseph-Kessel

    Yangon

    AEFE status: conventionné (C) / Conventionné. AEFE listing country: Birmanie (Myanmar).

    Member schoolSources

Mongolia(1)

Malta(1)

Malaysia(1)

Mozambique(1)

Nicaragua(1)

Norway(1)

Nepal(1)

New Zealand(1)

Oman(1)

Panama(1)

Philippines(1)

Palestinian Territories(1)

  • Lycée français international de Ramallah

    Ramallah

    AEFE status: conventionné (C) / Conventionné. AEFE listing country: Palestine.

    Member schoolSources

Paraguay(1)

Romania(1)

Serbia(1)

Rwanda(1)

Seychelles(1)

Sweden(1)

Slovenia(1)

Slovakia(1)

El Salvador(1)

Turkmenistan(1)

Tanzania(1)

Ukraine(1)

  • Lycée français Anne de Kyiv

    Kiev

    AEFE status: conventionné (C) / Conventionné. AEFE listing country: Ukraine.

    Member schoolSources

Uganda(1)

Uruguay(1)

Uzbekistan(1)

  • Lycée français de Tachkent

    Tashkent

    AEFE status: partenaire (P) / Partenaire. AEFE listing country: Ouzbékistan.

    PartnerSources

Venezuela(1)

Vanuatu(1)

Kosovo(1)

Zambia(1)

Zimbabwe(1)

Notes on the data

COMPLETE per official directory (aefe.gouv.fr/fr/etablissements, read 2026-11-04): 638 schools in 141 country entries (home page states 640 / 140 countries / 400,000+ pupils). Relationship mapping: Gestion directe = owned; Conventionné = member; Partenaire = partner; the original status is kept in each note. Counts: GD 68, C 150, P 420. Lebanon 68, Egypt 17 (Cairo 12), UAE 10 (Dubai 7, Abu Dhabi 2, Sharjah 1), Vanuatu 1, New Zealand 1. Cities are given in English where obvious, otherwise as AEFE writes them (French). Websites not recorded (AEFE page URLs in source_url). 'Genève' (canton) coded CH; 'Jérusalem' coded IL (country not stated by AEFE; AEFE separately lists Palestine/Ramallah). Hong Kong rows coded HK. Seed matching: exact by name+city or unique name; the rest are fuzzy candidates or unmatched (AEFE lists many Lebanese/Tunisian/Moroccan/African schools not in our seed).

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