| European School of Paris-La Défense | |
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Ecole Européenne Paris-La Défense | |
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| Location | |
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80 rue Eugène Caron (Nursery & Primary) 13 rue de l’industrie (Secondary) | |
| Coordinates | 48°53′46″N2°14′31″E / 48.896°N 2.242°E /48.896; 2.242 |
| Information | |
| Established | 2 September 2019 (2019-09-02) |
| Director | Valérie Ficara (2019-2023), then Marion Marchal, proviseur of lycée international Lucie-Aubrac |
| Gender | Mixed |
| Age range | 4 to 16 (in 2019) |
| Enrolment | 137[1] (2019-2020) |
| • Nursery | 43 |
| • Primary | 59 |
| • Secondary | 35 |
| Accreditation | Accredited by theEuropean Schools[2] |
| Website | www |
TheEuropean School of Paris-La Défense (French:École Européenne Paris-La Défense) is apublicAccredited European School in the business district ofLa Défense nearParis,France. Founded in 2019, it is anall-through school, which offers a multicultural and multilingual education leading to theEuropean Baccalaureate as its secondary leaving qualification.
The European School of Paris-La Défense was set up on initiative of the French Government, mainly to accommodate children of staff working for theEuropean Banking Authority after its move from London to Paris in 2019.[3] It was inaugurated on 2 September 2019.[4]
Following the successful conclusion of its 2019 audit, the European School of Paris-La Défense is set to receive its initialaccreditation, by the Board of Governors of theEuropean Schools, to teach nursery to fifth-year secondary of the European School system.[2]
The European School of Paris-La Défense is recognized as public school under French law, with an agreement with theEuropean Union obliging it to prioritise, for enrolment purposes, the children ofEU staff, in return for the receipt of funds proportional to the number of children of EU staff enrolled in the school.
Students must enrol in either theEnglish or theFrench section of the school and are generally instructed in the language of the respective section. Students must then choose from either French, English, orGerman for their second language, which becomes the language of instruction for theHistory,Geography andEthics curriculum from the third-year secondary. Students are also expected to take a third language upon entering the secondary school.
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