School Management System for France

Yes. ONDE (Outil Numerique pour la Direction d'Ecole) is the Ministere de l'Education Nationale platform used at the primaire level for inscription, admission, radiation, and mouvements. SIECLE (Systeme d'Information pour les Eleves des Colleges et des Lycees et pour les Etablissements) is the secondaire equivalent covering nomenclatures, structures, and constats de rentree. The platform maps internal eleve records to the ONDE and SIECLE data models: identifiant INE (Identifiant National Eleve), classe assignment, division, groupe, and mouvement type. Base Eleves Etablissement (BEE) data exchange runs on the schedule the academie requires. Affelnet integration handles the lycee affectation cycle post-3e. The annual constats de rentree drops from weeks of manual reconciliation to a same-day export.

Livret Scolaire Unique du CP a la 3e (LSU) is the Ministere de l'Education Nationale-mandated single evaluation record following each eleve across ecole elementaire and college. The platform generates the LSU templates: bilans periodiques (typically three per year) covering matiere-level evaluation, appreciations qualitatives, and socle commun competence-level tracking on the four-level scale (Maitrise insuffisante, Maitrise fragile, Maitrise satisfaisante, Tres bonne maitrise). Bilans de fin de cycle at end of cycle 2 (CE2), cycle 3 (6e), and cycle 4 (3e) summarize the eleve trajectory. Attestations (APER for road safety at ecole, ASSR at college), attestation scolaire savoir-nager, and Pix competences numeriques integration flow into the Livret automatically.

Yes. Parcoursup is the national platform terminale students use to apply for enseignement superieur. The platform supports the annual cycle: voeux tracking (janvier voeux submission, mars finalisation), fiche Avenir generation by the professeur principal and chef d'etablissement, bulletins scolaires transfer for premiere and terminale, and reponse phase workflow (avril-mai-juin-juillet). Bac 2021 reforms include: enseignements de specialite tracking (three in premiere reducing to two in terminale), controle continu weight (40% of the final Bac note based on bulletins), Grand Oral preparation with jury feedback capture, and epreuves anticipees de francais (EAF ecrit et oral) score capture at end of premiere. Voie technologique bac (STMG, STI2D, ST2S, STL, STAV, S2TMD, STHR) and voie professionnelle bac pro configurations covered.

RGPD (Reglement General sur la Protection des Donnees, EU 2016/679) and Loi Informatique et Libertes apply to every etablissement scolaire as responsable de traitement. The platform supports the compliance workflow under CNIL (Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertes) guidance: base legale tracking per data category (mission de service public for etablissements publics, contrat for etablissements prives, consentement for photos or marketing), Analyse d'Impact relative a la Protection des Donnees (AIPD) templates for high-risk processing, registre des activites de traitement per Article 30 generated from configuration, Delegue a la Protection des Donnees (DPD) audit log covering every access, droits des personnes concernees workflow for acces, rectification, effacement, portabilite per Articles 15-20, and CNIL breach notification templates within 72 heures. Hebergement HDS-certifie or SecNumCloud-qualifie via OVHcloud, Scaleway, Outscale, or Cloud Temple for academies requiring souverainete numerique.

Pronote (Index Education) is the dominant French vie-scolaire and gestion-des-notes platform, widely deployed in colleges and lycees publics et prives. Ecole Directe (STATIM) is common at etablissements catholiques sous contrat. Charlemagne (Aplon) is common at etablissements prives. OpenEduCat differentiates on three fronts: LGPLv3 open source with self-hosting option (satisfies souverainete numerique concerns increasingly voiced by rectorats and Ministere de l'Education Nationale), native integration between vie scolaire, LMS, gestion administrative, comptabilite, and inscriptions on one database (versus Pronote handling only vie scolaire and requiring separate systems for LMS and administrative), and multi-etablissement consolidation for reseaux like Apprentis d'Auteuil, La Salle, or Assomption operating 20-100 etablissements with reseau-level financial and pedagogical governance.

Yes. French private schools operate under three regimes. Sous contrat d'association (the majority of Catholic and Jewish schools, plus a small number of secular schools) means the Etat pays teaching-staff salaries while the etablissement handles administrative, technical, and non-teaching staff. Sous contrat simple is a legacy regime being phased out. Hors contrat means fully private with no state subsidy, subject to Loi Gatel 2018 requirements including notification to the rectorat, prefet, and procureur before opening. The platform supports each regime: sous contrat schools track Etat-paid staff separately from etablissement-paid staff, hors contrat schools track full fee-based operations with rectorat oversight and Loi Gatel evidence. Etablissements catholiques integrate with the reseau d'enseignement catholique (SGEC) reporting and the diocesan DDEC (Direction Diocesaine de l'Enseignement Catholique) supervision.

A single French college or lycee with 600-1,500 eleves typically goes live in 10-16 semaines, aligned with the French rentree scolaire (early September): 2-3 semaines data migration (from ONDE or SIECLE exports, historical Pronote or Ecole Directe archives, existing comptabilite systems); 2-3 semaines RGPD compliance setup covering AIPD, registre des activites, DPD workflow, droits des personnes; 2-3 semaines socle commun and LSU template configuration per Ministere de l'Education Nationale bilan periodique format; 2-3 semaines vie scolaire configuration for the Conseiller Principal d'Education (CPE) with reglement interieur alignment; 2-3 semaines French-language UI rollout and enseignant training; 2-3 semaines SEPA Prelevement, Chorus Pro, and FEC comptable configuration; 2-3 semaines parallele run; bascule at rentree scolaire. For reseaux d'etablissements, add 4-6 semaines for reseau-level consolidation. Implementation partners with Ministere de l'Education Nationale, ONDE-SIECLE, RGPD-CNIL, and reseau d'enseignement catholique experience are available in Paris, Lyon, and Bordeaux.