314

International

School

Explore.
Dream.
Build.

Currently undergoing registration with the Versailles school district.
Scheduled to open in September 2026.

Elementary school students in uniform

Our Vision

We believe that every child has a natural ability to think, explore, create, and engage with the world around them. In Orsay, in the heart of the Saclay plateau, 314 International School offers a demanding and deeply human bilingual international education, designed to reveal each child's unique potential.

Our ambition is to offer much more than academic education: a formative experience that combines academic excellence, French-English bilingualism, cultural openness, and kindness. In a stimulating and structured environment, students develop confidence, intellectual curiosity, and a lasting love of learning.

We support each child in understanding the world with clarity, adapting to it with agility, and participating in it actively. Critical thinking, creativity, ethical awareness, and the ability to collaborate are at the heart of our educational approach.

A private bilingual international school in Essonne, located near Paris, 314 International School welcomes children from preschool to fifth grade and prepares each of them to thrive in an academic and cultural environment that is open to the future.

Our Values

Explore. Dream. Build.

At 314, every child learns to think freely and to build with purpose.

CREATIVITY

“We cultivate creativity as an essential competency for understanding, envisioning, and constructing the world of tomorrow.”

Curiosity

“We foster children's innate curiosity, enabling them to explore, inquire, and learn with enthusiasm.”

Nurturing Support

“We prioritize well-being at the core of the learning process, fostering a secure, respectful, and responsive environment tailored to each child's needs.”

Innovation

“We integrate the most effective international pedagogies and educational technologies to deliver a curriculum unequivocally oriented towards the future.”

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Our Pedagogical Approach

Curiosity and Open-mindedness

We encourage children to ask questions, explore, make mistakes, and iterate. Curiosity fuels the desire for learning and broadens their perspective on the world.

Joyful Rigor

Robust and structured methodologies instill confidence. Demanding standards and enjoyment are synergistic: children learn with earnestness, yet always with enthusiasm.

Cooperation and Flipped Classroom

Collaborative learning, exchange, and practical application: classroom time is dedicated to projects, discussions, and the active implementation of knowledge.

Flexibility and Personalization

A flexible and adaptable classroom environment, with customized learning pathways facilitated by work plans and competency-based progression systems: each student progresses at their own pace, according to their individual needs and strengths.

Bilingualism and the Future World

An innovative bilingual school, deeply integrated with sciences, arts, digital technologies, and artificial intelligence, to prepare children for the challenges of the 21st century.

"All grown-ups
were once children.
But few of them remember it."

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314 School - Why 314?

Why 314?

The name 314 serves as a scientific, philosophical, and pedagogical symbol.

It naturally references the number π (pi ≈ 3.14):
a universal, mysterious, infinite constant — much like children's thirst for knowledge.

This digit connects the world of mathematics to the real world, mirroring our school's approach of linking knowledge to life.

It also evokes Albert Einstein, born on March 14 (3/14 in Anglo-Saxon notation), an emblematic figure of curiosity, joyful rigor, and free thought.

Like him, we aim to instill in children the desire to understand, to question, to imagine, and to dare.

Finally, 314 is a signature: discreet, modern, and evocative.

It embodies our ambition for an intelligent, elegant school, oriented towards the future.

At 314,
learning is exploration.
We do not aim to fill minds, but to awaken them.


OUR ROLE IS TO PROVIDE THEM WITH THE MAP, THE COMPASS, AND ABOVE ALL, THE PERMISSION TO LOOK BEYOND.

Located in Orsay, in the heart of Essonne and the Paris-Saclay hub, 314 International School is a private French-English bilingual preschool and elementary school that supports each child on a challenging, international, and deeply human journey.