The Henri-IV, Saint-Louis or Charlemagne colleges and high schools are known to all Parisians even if they do not live in the 4th or 5th arrondissements.
These establishments no longer have anything to prove since, each year, they reach high levels of success.
These schools in a prestigious establishment are coveted by all parents, but do they go so far as to move for this, while the Parisian draws up an unprecedented ranking of the districts where you have to live in Paris to follow the best schooling in secondary school?
Rosane, a young mother whose smile can even be seen through the mask, returned to live on the outskirts of Île Saint-Louis fifteen years ago.
This move was mainly motivated by the desire to be closer to his family, and the desire to live in this lively neighborhood filled with small shops.
She confides all the same that in Paris more than elsewhere, the question of schools arises.
"We know that there are very good colleges and high schools right next door, it's obviously a big plus for my son," she said, watching her young boy on a scooter.
“We know we have to leave”
A few meters further, Marie shares the same opinion.
This nanny knows that the schools' reputation played an important role when Noa and Zelda's parents chose to live here.
“They really appreciate the calm of the streets, the setting with the Seine and the shops.
But obviously, the schools have only confirmed their intention.
Noa and Zelda are still small to think of middle school and high school, but a few blocks from here is their school, La Douce Maternelle.
It is a bilingual Montessori establishment.
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Reading our ranking, Mathieu, a resident of the 19th arrondissement, quips: "I see that we have chosen well... The school our children go to is very good, but we know that we will have to leave in the next few years. come, when they have to go to college.
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If the reputation of the establishments is therefore not the decisive criterion when it comes to choosing a neighborhood in which to live, it nevertheless turns out, for the parents of pupils, to be the last detail ending in fixing their decision.
