Languages › French French Vocabulary About School Share Flipboard Email Print BakiBG / Getty Images French Vocabulary Pronunciation & Conversation Grammar Resources For Teachers By ThoughtCo Team Updated on 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 school un écolier, une écolière - grade school student un collège - middle school, junior high un collégien, une collégienne - middle school student un lycée - high school un lycéen, une lycéenne - high school student une université - college, university un étudiant, une étudiante - college student un 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 - course une salle de classe - classroom un bureau - desk un pupitre - student desk un cahier - notebook une calculatrice - calculator une carte - map un classeur - binder une craie - chalk un crayon - pencil des devoirs (m) - homework un dictionnaire - dictionary un examen - test une gomme - eraser un livre - book le papier - paper une feuille de papier - piece of paper recto verso - front and back, both sides un sac à dos - backpack un stylo - pen un tableau - chalkboard Cite this Article Format mla apa chicago Your Citation Team, ThoughtCo. "French Vocabulary About School." ThoughtCo, Dec. 6, 2021, thoughtco.com/french-school-vocabulary-1371376. Team, ThoughtCo. (2021, December 6). French Vocabulary About School. Retrieved from https://www.thoughtco.com/french-school-vocabulary-1371376 Team, ThoughtCo. "French Vocabulary About School." ThoughtCo. https://www.thoughtco.com/french-school-vocabulary-1371376 (accessed June 3, 2023). copy citation