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Ecole Francaise Internationale de Djeddah
French government-homologated school in Al Zahra district, part of the Mission Laique Francaise network, serving children from age 2 through to the Baccalaureate and Brevet. Fees for 2025-2026 run from SAR 25,217 (TPS, age 2) to SAR 48,609 (Premiere/Terminale), excluding…
In brief
The French-stream school in Jeddah, founded in 1966 and now operated as an MLF partner school rather than an AEFE network member.
EFID opened in 1966 under the French Bureau of Geological and Mining Research and was an AEFE-recognised school until 2009, when AEFE ended the agreement and the school moved to a Mission Laïque Française partnership. The programme runs from age two through the French Baccalauréat, with around a thousand students in newer facilities opened in 2021. Languages are French, English, and Arabic, with Spanish layered in for some streams. Fabrice Quignon leads the school.
Returning families to France tend to report stronger academic levels than peers and notably better English. Inside the parent community, signal is more mixed. Some have moved children out to the British or American schools citing teacher quality variance and supervisory issues, and there is a recurring view that quality has slipped year on year. Fees range from around SAR 25,000 to 49,000 across the levels, which is competitive with the upper tier in Jeddah.
Fees
| Fee | Age | Type | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| TPS (Tres Petite Section, age 2) | 2 | Annual | SAR 25,217 |
| PS (Petite Section, age 3) | 3 | Annual | SAR 33,478 |
| MS-GS (Moyenne / Grande Section, ages 3-5) | 4 | Annual | SAR 35,826 |
| Elementaire-College (ages 5-14) | 6 | Annual | SAR 37,130 |
| Seconde (ages 14-15) | 15 | Annual | SAR 41,739 |
| Premiere / Terminale (ages 15-18) | 16 | Annual | SAR 48,609 |
| Re-inscription fee | One-time | SAR 1,913 | |
| First registration fee | One-time | SAR 7,800 |
Reviews
- The long-established French school in Jeddah, founded 1966 and an officially recognised AEFE-network school, with around 1,000 to 1,400 pupils across French national programme classes from kindergarten to terminale.
- Intake skews Lebanese and French, with a long tail of other nationalities. The school relocated to a new airport-area site in 2021, which parents and reviewers describe as a modern and well-equipped step up from the previous building.
- Aggregator reviews are short and polarised. International School Advisor sits at a 2.0 average from a small pool, with one ex-student remembering "great memories" and another writing the school is "incredibly misogynistic, overpriced and overall just boring".
- Reviewer-side write-ups note the absence of published Brevet and Baccalauréat results and limited transparency on graduate destinations as the most concrete gap.
- No Reddit, Mumsnet or expat-forum chatter in English. Day-to-day parent feedback runs in French and Arabic on private channels rather than in any indexed corpus.
Head of school
Fabrice Quignon
Fabrice Quignon is the Principal (Proviseur) of the French International School of Jeddah, a role he has held since September 2021. He previously served as the Principal of the French International School of Al Khobar (Mission laïque française) from 2017 to 2021. His extensive career in the French national education system includes leadership positions as a Principal in Tubuaï, French Polynesia (2013-2017), Belvès, France (2010-2013), and Meslay-du-Maine, France (2006-2010). He is committed to providing a high-quality education in accordance with French standards, fostering a multicultural environment that emphasizes the mastery of French, Arabic, English, and Spanish. He oversees an integrated educational path from kindergarten (age 2) through to the French Baccalaureate.
Accreditations
- Agence pour l'enseignement français à l'étranger 01
Academic results
- Baccalaureat pass rate 100% (2023)