Languages › French French Vocabulary About School Share Flipboard Email Print BakiBG / Getty Images French Vocabulary Pronunciation & Conversation Grammar Resources For Teachers By ThoughtCo Updated February 27, 2019 Learn French vocabulary related to school, including different types of schools and school supplies. Click any link to hear that word pronounced. French School Vocabulary une école - school (in general), grade schoolun écolier, une écolière - grade school studentun collège - middle school, junior highun collégien, une collégienne - middle school studentun lycée - high schoolun lycéen, une lycéenne - high school studentune université - college, universityun étudiant, une étudiante - college studentun professeur, un/e prof (informal) - teacher (In France, the word professeur is always masculine, even if the teacher is a woman. The informal apocope prof, however, can be masculine or feminine.)un cours - courseune salle de classe - classroomun bureau - deskun pupitre - student deskun cahier - notebookune calculatrice - calculatorune carte - mapun classeur - binderune craie - chalkun crayon - pencildes devoirs (m) - homeworkun dictionnaire - dictionaryun examen - testune gomme - eraserun livre - bookle papier - paperune feuille de papier - piece of paperrecto verso - front and back, both sidesun sac à dos - backpackun stylo - penun tableau - chalkboard