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Ecole Oasis Internationale
The first school in the world authorised to offer all four IB programmes in French, on a Maadi campus open since 1989. Trilingual French, English and Arabic. Around 1,900 students.
In brief
The first school in the world authorised to offer all four IB programmes in French, on a Maadi campus open since 1989. Trilingual French, English and Arabic. Around 1,900 students.
Run by Groupe Scolaire Oasis, this is the senior of two related Oasis schools and the natural choice for francophone families in Cairo who want a full PYP-MYP-DP-CP continuum without leaving French. IB results have tracked above the world average for years, and the school feeds graduates into French and Egyptian universities and an international spread beyond.
The school adopted Positive Discipline as its behaviour framework from 2015/16, which lines up with what families say about the atmosphere: structured but not punitive. Class sizes average around 25. Families wanting a primarily English-medium school will find this is genuinely a French school first, with English and Arabic supporting rather than driving instruction.
Reviews
A long-running French-language IB school in Zahraa El Maadi, the first in the world authorised to deliver all four IB programmes (PYP, MYP, DP, CP) in French. Around 1,900 pupils across two campuses, an international teaching body, and a Positive Discipline framework that the school has built into staff and parent training. Reputation among French-speaking families in Cairo is solid; the louder grumbles attach to scale, traffic in the surrounding streets, and a workload that lands heavy on some pupils.
Positives
- French IB continuum. Full PYP through DP and CP delivered in French, a rare offer in the region. Graduates progress to French, Egyptian, North American and UK universities, and the school has run the IB pathway long enough that the structure is settled rather than experimental.
- Pastoral framework. Positive Discipline has been embedded since 2015 and the school is an IB-recognised Positive Discipline Lab School. Parent workshops and Oasis Hub training sit alongside the classroom approach, so the language is shared between home and school rather than confined to teachers.
- International staff body. Teachers come from more than twenty nationalities, which matters for a French-medium school operating in an Arabic-speaking city. Francophone families looking for continuity across the IB stages tend to land here for that reason.
Considerations
- Workload and pressure. Some parents describe the academic load as heavy and homework as relentless across holidays. The IB continuum is demanding by design, but the volume is a recurring note rather than a one-off.
- Scale and neighbourhood impact. Roughly 1,900 pupils on a compact Maadi footprint means arrival and pick-up snarl the surrounding streets, and the recent build that took over the old playground has not gone down well with neighbours. Visiting at the school-run hours gives a fairer sense of the daily reality than a quiet weekday tour.
- Fees. Tuition is not published per year group and has to be requested from the finance office, which slows comparison shopping. The headline range sits among the higher Cairo international tariffs once the full programme add-ons are layered in.
Location
X88H+C3M, Maadi as Sarayat Al Gharbeyah, Tura, Cairo Governorate 4064161, Egypt