Lycée Français International Charles de Gaulle, Beijing

Year level	Age	Fee
Kindergarten 1-3 (Maternelle)	3	CN¥87,877
Grades 1-5 (Élémentaire)	6	CN¥97,729
Grades 6-8 (Collège)	11	CN¥111,572
Grades 9-12 (Lycée)	14	CN¥164,912

Year level

Age

Fee

Kindergarten 1-3 (Maternelle)

CN¥87,877

Grades 1-5 (Élémentaire)

CN¥97,729

Grades 6-8 (Collège)

CN¥111,572

Grades 9-12 (Lycée)

CN¥164,912

Item	Age	Fee
Enrollment Fee		CN¥6,786

Item

Age

Fee

Enrollment Fee

CN¥6,786

The flagship French school in Beijing, run directly by AEFE on a single Chaoyang campus since 2016. Around 850 pupils from roughly 50 nationalities, with a French majority that has thinned as the wider expat community shrank. Strong baccalauréat results year after year, a British International Section and a Chinese International Section grafted onto the standard French track, and a head, Audrey Fouillard, who took over in autumn 2024 and has made communication and outreach an explicit priority.

Academic results. Consistent 100% bac pass rate, with a high share of mentions and placements that stretch from French prépas to Sciences Po, ETH Zürich and UK universities. The British International Section and Chinese International Section both lead to the BFI variant of the bac.

AEFE direct management. Run directly by the French state agency rather than franchised out, which means resident teachers from the French national system, a fixed curriculum, and seamless transfer into and out of the wider AEFE network.

Campus and facilities. The Jacques Ferrier campus on Xinjin Lu, opened in 2016, brought every age group onto one site for the first time. Built for 1,500 with a gym, football pitch, athletics tracks and a roller rink, so it sits well under capacity at current numbers.

Community and scale. Smaller than most French lycées back home, which families describe as a closer, family-feeling environment. Programming leans heavily on the francophone calendar: Francophonie week in March, arts fortnight in April, and embassy and Comédie-Française tie-ins.

Considerations

Shrinking French expat base. Enrolment has drifted down from around 1,050 at peak to roughly 850, tracking the broader contraction of the French community in Beijing. The school is leaning harder on its FLE (French as a foreign language) track to widen the intake, which changes the linguistic mix in primary classrooms.
Anglophone fit. The British International Section is a bilingual variant inside a French school, not a parallel English-medium track. Most teaching stays in French with about five hours of English subjects a week, so families arriving without French generally route through the FLE programme rather than expecting an English-led education.
Fees by age. Tuition steps up sharply at secondary: roughly CNY 87,000 in kindergarten, around CNY 97,000 in primary, CNY 110,000 in collège, then close to CNY 163,000 in lycée. Listed fees apply to French nationals; non-French families are quoted separately, and meals and transport are extra.
Leadership transition. Audrey Fouillard took the proviseure role in autumn 2024 and has put visible weight on communication, transparency and partnerships, including with Collège Sévigné in Paris and Centrale Pékin. The strategic plan and internal rules are being rewritten in parallel, so the operating culture is still settling.