Ecole Jeannine Manuel - Paris

After joining the French Resistance and becoming a member of the London Free French in 1940, Jeannine Manuel returned to France for the Liberation of Paris in August 1944. She returned firmly convinced that ignorance breeds fear and that fear is the root cause of human conflict. Scroll down to find out more about our school’s fascinating history and Jeannine Manuel’s extraordinary vision.

As a French bilingual and international institution, our school occupies a unique position in the landscape of international schools in France. École Jeannine Manuel has been under contract with the French state for over 60 years. The school follows the French national curriculum with the exception of the English, Science, and Chinese programs, which are unique to École Jeannine Manuel.

Our identity as a French-English bilingual school forms the central pillar of our school’s approach. We define bilingualism as the ability to express oneself in French or in English, orally or in writing, with native ease and compelling effectiveness. The school achieves this by providing students with rigorous and innovating language teaching, as well as with a complete cultural immersion. All of our teachers are either native French or English speakers, and a significant part of the student body have either French or English as their mother tongue.

With students of 80 different nationalities representing every major culture and religious tradition, our school is a truly international and multicultural community. École Jeannine Manuel was one of the first UNESCO associated schools and among the first International Baccalaureate (IB) World Schools du Baccalauréat International (IB). We are also an accredited Council of International Schools (CIS) and New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) school since 2014. Both are markers of excellence in teaching and international recognition.

Both our Paris and Lille schools are American International Sections for the primaire, collège, and lycée. Explore our interactive map below to find Franco-American international sections all around the world ! As a UNESCO associated school, École Jeannine Manuel’s vision and mission embodies the spirit of this declaration.

Learning is the lifelong transformation of our representations of the world. It occurs through actively processing of one’s own knowledge and experience, exchanging and confronting one’s ideas with teachers, peers and the larger community, building and reinforcing one’s own analytic tools and ability for critical thinking.