La Tour Paris - Anglophone Section

La Tour is a Catholic collège-lycée in the 16th arrondissement, founded in 1901, with an Anglophone Section added in 1989 that now runs three streams of English instruction inside a French school.

Around 1,050 students overall with over 800 in the Anglophone programmes. The site at 86 Rue de la Tour is close to Passy and Rue de la Pompe metros. Three tracks layer onto the French baccalaureate. Etudes Anglophones is the original bilingual stream with English literature and history taught in English by native-speaker teachers. Anglais Avancé is for top performers in standard English. Anglais Renforcé is the bridge in between.

Families value the rigour of the French system softened by genuine bilingual depth and the Catholic ethos. Parents describe a structured, disciplined academic culture with a credible English-language layer rather than a watered-down programme. Admission is two-stage: acceptance to La Tour first, then a separate test for the Anglophone tracks. Best fit for expat families committed to the French baccalaureate who want strong English integration and a Catholic environment.

• Public review pool is small but uniformly positive. Facebook shows a 100% recommend rating; another aggregator carries from five reviews.
• The Anglophone Section runs three programme tracks (Etudes Anglophones, Anglais Avance honours and Step primary) so reviewer experience varies by entry route. Parent commentary repeatedly stresses native-speaker teaching and an active PTA.
• The school is a private Catholic college and lycee, founded in 1901, with the Anglophone Section dating to 1989. Reviews note the religious framing without flagging it as a barrier for non-Catholic families.
• Independent parent forum signal is genuinely thin. Reddit and other forums returned no usable threads, and most third-party commentary lives on listing sites and the school's own pages.