L'Ecole de Battersea

L'Ecole de Battersea is the primary sister school of L'Ecole des Petits in Fulham, founded in 2005 on Trott Street in Battersea. Around 250 children aged 3 to 11 from over 30 nationalities on a French and English bilingual curriculum, joined the Globeducate network in 2024.

The day combines the French national programme and the English system, with paired teachers and small classes. CM2 pupils take an English-school tutor in their final year and parents report strong 11+ outcomes into London preps and selective seniors. Ofsted rates the school Good and the school holds AEFE accreditation alongside DfE registration.

Families describe small, warm classes, charming buildings, an oversubscribed feel, and teachers who know each child. The recurring administrative grumble is slow phone and email response from the office, which families notice most when admissions or fee questions arise. Best fit for Anglo-French and bilingual families in south west London who want a French academic foundation with a clean exit into either French collège or English preparatory school at age 11.

• parent threads on French schools in London name L'Ecole de Battersea infrequently, and when they do the framing is positive: one parent called the Ofsted report "very good - well balanced" and contrasted the school's smaller scale favourably with the Lycée's factory feel.
• Ofsted dropped the school from Outstanding (2011, 2015, 2018) to Good in 2022. Independent listings describe the parent body as enthusiastic and the corridors as bilingual without effort, but those are guide write-ups rather than parent voices.
• The school sits inside the French primary feeder pipeline to the Lycée Charles de Gaulle, and parents treat that pathway as the main reason to choose it.
• The independent review pool is genuinely thin. Beyond Mumsnet snippets, ISDB shows no parent reviews and most other commentary comes from school directories.