Nouakchott - School Report Question and Answers
Are other schools available to expatriates in this city? Why did you choose this particular school?
The French School of Nouakchott is available. We chose AISN because it was the easiest option, bureaucratically, and it was out first tour in the Foreign Service. We did not know if our daughter would do well in a French speaking school. If you start your children in the French school system, they can stick to it for the entirety of their school years without needing to test into it. In our experience, the French school in Nouakchott seems better than AISN - more rigorous, no shared classes between grades, more teachers. The French system is an "old school" system that teaches cursive, focuses on discipline and children being orderly, hands out homework, and pushes kids more than the American schools. It also forces kids to actually learn a foreign, world language, which ironically, they never really do when bounding from post to post as a diplomat... it also gets you out of the American social bubble. While we are sticking to the American international school system, we look back and think it may have been a wiser decision to go the French route in Nouakchott because we wanted a more traditional school for our kids. - Dec 2024
This is the only supported English language school in the country. Solid French speaking options exist. - Nov 2023
