French Immersion Schools in
Boston

Massachusetts has 12 French-language schools, almost all public and concentrated south of Boston. The defining feature of the state’s French immersion landscape is Milton — a single Boston suburb with 6 schools in the same public program, from four elementary schools (Collicot, Cunningham, Glover, Tucker) through Pierce Middle School to Milton High School. A student who enters the Milton French immersion program in kindergarten can graduate from the same public district 13 years later — no tuition, no transfers.

Holliston, roughly 25 miles west of Boston, adds 3 more public French immersion schools (Fred Miller Elementary, Robert Adams Middle, Sam Placentino Elementary) in the MetroWest region. Manthala George Elementary in Brockton represents the state’s reach into higher-diversity South Shore communities.

Boston’s private French education is anchored by two institutions: EFB – École Française de Boston (Watertown), a small Montessori-inflected bilingual school, and Lycée International de Boston (Cambridge), an AEFE-affiliated school widely regarded as one of the most academically respected French schools in the Northeast.