École Voltaire

A small French AEFE primary in Tiergarten serving children from age 3 to 11 across a Maternelle on Lützowstrasse and an Élémentaire on Kurfürstenstrasse. Around 270 to 300 pupils, French national curriculum delivered bilingually with German.

École Voltaire was founded in 1994 and is part of the AEFE network, which sets the curriculum, validates the staff and feeds graduates directly into the secondary Französisches Gymnasium. Time is split close to evenly between French and German in the early years, tilting to about 55 percent French in elementary, with English added in CE2.

Annual fees in the low five-thousands of euros are modest by international-school standards in Berlin, which is part of the appeal alongside the AEFE pipeline. The school is small, the published parent voice is thin, and the trade-offs are predictable: limited extracurricular range and facilities compared to the larger international schools, in exchange for genuine French-curriculum continuity for families who plan to stay in the system.