European School of Strasbourg number. European School of Strasbourg European School of Strasbourg () is a European school in Strasbourg, France, serving levels nursery through secondary. There are currently approximately 1000 students, spread out in 40 different classes, from nursery to secondary. Priority is given to children whose parents work at the European institutions based in Strasbourg.. The school teaches in three different languages: French, English, and German. The school has been criticised for its admission policy, and some students being favored over others. The school has also been criticised for not accepting a larger number of students, considering it has not reached the
Strasbourg and home to 13% of the Grand Est region's inhabitants. The transnational Eurodistrict Strasbourg-Ortenau had a population of 915,000 inhabitants in 2014. Strasbourg is one of the "de facto" capitals of the European Union (alongside Brussels and Luxembourg), as it is the seat of several European institutions, such as the Council of Europe (with its European Court of Human Rights, its European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines and its European Audiovisual Observatory) and the Eurocorps, as well as the European Parliament and the European Ombudsman of the European Union. The city is also the seat of the Central Commission