Paris · west as often as the 15th
The useful Paris map is often a western suburb, a bilingual house in the 15th, or a public cité scolaire of sections. Time the RER at the hour you would actually travel.
Paris is not one international market. It is a French school system with a few English-medium and bilingual doors families tour when a posting, a bilingual childhood, or a public international section is the actual need.
The portraits we have are three different climates. Use them for fees and dates. This note is how they sit on the map. The France country page is the wider walking list — AEFE, sous contrat, hors contrat — official doors we name without ranking.
American School of Paris is a day school in Saint-Cloud. English in every core class. French as a subject. The school is careful to say it is not a bilingual school. American diploma, AP, IB. The 2026/27 tuition page prints a capital assessment from Grade 1; read that page before you fall in love with the forest edge. American schools in Europe is the climate this house belongs to.
École Jeannine Manuel is the Paris day houses in the 15th — Suffren, Dupleix, Rue du Théâtre — sous contrat, bilingual by design. BFI or IB, and a school diploma. The IB invoice is a different animal from the French lycée. Boarding lives in Lille, not in the 15th. Read the fee PDF that matches the pathway.
Lycée International de Saint-Germain-en-Laye is a state cité scolaire, not a hors-contrat boutique. Fourteen international sections. The Baccalauréat Français International. Places in a national section are the scarce thing. French-state tuition is not a private-school invoice. You apply to a section first. Confirm the school’s own admissions pages.
They share a western clock and almost no Tuesday.
Saint-Cloud, the 15th, and Saint-Germain are not interchangeable commutes. A beautiful campus forty minutes away on a June Saturday is a different life at 7:40 in January rain.
Time the door-to-gate journey at the hour you would travel. Ask where the bus actually stops. Ask what happens when a strike week arrives — this is Paris; it will.
Housing will choose the school before the brochure does. If you cannot live near the gate, write that on the fridge before you book a second tour.
A week that only sees these three houses is still a thin week. Families who will stay often walk a neighbourhood école or collège, a sous contrat Catholic house, or another public international section the académie names. Lyon, Aix, Bordeaux, Lille have their own weather. Lille is also where Jeannine Manuel boards.
We do not invent hors contrat fees or sous contrat family contributions. Ask each door for this year’s document.
The language of the yard is the test. A child can thrive in English at ASP and still be lonely in the park if the jokes are in French. A child can thrive in a French section and still need an English adult at 9 p.m. if the next posting is Houston.
Ask which pathway, which campus, which section. Ask whether Adaptation (Jeannine Manuel’s own word) is still open for this age. Ask whether High School at ASP will take a tired mid-year English. Ask which of the fourteen Saint-Germain sections still has a chair.
Then sit on the train. The house that still feels possible after that ride is the one to read twice.
The city hub is the short map. The three portraits are the long ones.
Friendly orientation, not formal admissions advice. Always confirm dates with the school.
The official site is asparis.org. The admissions inbox is asparis.fr. It is a day school in Saint-Cloud, English in every core class, French as a subject. The 2026/27 tuition page prints a capital assessment of €12,200 from Grade 1. Read that page before you fall in love with the forest edge.
Paris 15thThe Paris houses are day schools sous contrat. The IB invoice is a different animal from the French lycée. Boarding lives in Lille. Read the fee PDF that matches the pathway before you fall in love with the bilingual story.
Saint-Germain-en-LayeThis is a state cité scolaire, not a hors-contrat boutique. Every child is in an international section. Places in a national section are the scarce thing. French-state tuition is not a private-school invoice.
The letters on the leaver’s certificate matter. They are not the whole child. Here is how to tell them apart without a headache, and without pretending every door stays open.
16 minYou do not need a perfect algorithm. You need a few true things about your child, a boring list on the fridge, and the courage to ignore a beautiful campus that does not fit.
15 minTuition is the number on the homepage. The PDF is the number that arrives in March. Here is how to read the second one, without inventing a euro, a krona, or a deadline.
12 minSkip the question about last year’s average. Ask the ones that make a teacher’s face change. Then look at the corridor while they answer.