International Bilingual School of Provence (IBS of Provence)

Two parallel pathways run through the upper school. The French section follows the official national programme of the French Ministry of Education and prepares the Baccalaureat, with around one third of lessons taught in English. The international section leads to the International Baccalaureate Diploma, assessed continuously and by examination in six subject groups, and the school is an authorised IB World School. Alongside these, IBS is a Cambridge International Examinations centre (FR606) for IGCSE and AS and A Levels and a Cambridge ESOL centre (FR900) for KET, PET, FCE, CAE and CPE, and it hosts the Digital SAT and other tests for students applying to universities abroad.

The school takes children from the age of two. Nursery and Primary cover Petite Section through to CM2, for ages two to ten. Middle School covers 6eme to 3eme, for ages eleven to fourteen, and students may begin the Pre-IB route in 3eme. Upper School covers 2nde, 1ere and Terminale, for ages fifteen to eighteen, where students choose between the French Baccalaureat section and the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, taking Pre-IB2 and then DP1 and DP2.

The school's stated objectives are to promote global understanding so that students accept and respect different cultures and beliefs, to provide a bilingual and bicultural environment in which language acquisition plays a central role, and to help students become world citizens able to think critically. Its founders set out to combine academic excellence, cultural openness and kindness, and the school still presents itself that way thirty years on, with a community of more than seventy nationalities on a campus it likens to an international village.

The Luynes campus occupies a seven-hectare estate in a green setting, with 11,000 square metres of buildings constructed between 2017 and 2021. Classrooms are described as spacious and bright and fitted with current teaching technology, and the campus includes a 200-seat amphitheatre and a canteen where meals are cooked on site. Sports facilities comprise four tennis courts, a football pitch, a heated swimming pool, a multi-sports field and a sports building. Art and performing-arts rooms support the creative programme from 6eme upwards. Boarders live in five houses located outside the campus.

Meals are prepared on site by the school's own kitchen, Atelier Gourmet de Provence, with meat, fish, vegetarian and halal-friendly main courses, a salad bar, homemade soups in winter and a weekly vegetarian day; primary pupils eat in their own dining space and older students use a self-service counter, and ingredients are sourced locally and organic where possible. A bus service brings students to the campus, uniforms are sold in packs, and school excursions and trips are organised through the year. Tuition is billed per year group, with separate entrance and enrolment fees and optional charges for French as a foreign language support and for boarding.

Boarding is available at the Luynes campus from 6eme through to Terminale, either weekly or full-time. Boarders live in five houses located outside the campus which the school describes as offering a family-like and secure environment. Boarding fees cover the school year and are charged separately from day tuition, with their own entrance and enrolment fees and a medical advance for boarding students. Boarders take part in the school's trips, including ski weeks in Vars, and in the wider programme of sport, arts and clubs.

Sport is a strong part of school life. IBS runs a tennis academy of around 240 students of all levels and nationalities, headed by Thomas Enqvist, and a basketball academy founded in 2022, alongside sport-study sections. After classes students can take martial arts, fitness, yoga, dance and team sports such as basketball and football, and the school holds a traditional cross-country race. Clubs cover chess, badminton and table tennis, guitar, creative drawing, dance and percussion. The arts programme offers visual and performing arts from 6eme, with a school choir, art club, music club, private music and singing tuition and a theatre programme covering acting, production, direction, set and props design and stage management, performed at the Christmas party, the talent show and the end-of-year production. Ski trips and school excursions complete the year.