About The School

Headmistress: Olympe Maxime
Location: France
Uniforms: robes of fine silk; attendants of the carriage wear pale blue
Coat of Arms: two crossed golden wands on a powder-blue field, each emitting three stars

The Academy's building is called the Palace of Beauxbatons, and unlike Hogwarts Castle it does not contain suits of armour. Rather than a Great Hall as at Hogwarts, the Palace contains a Dining Chamber, which is elaborately decorated at Christmastime but in a different style than that used at Hogwarts. The scholastic system at the Academy is also arranged differently than that at Hogwarts; instead of sitting Ordinary Wizarding Levels or their equivalent at the end of five years, Academy students sit exams after six years.

Where is Beauxbatons?
During the feast celebrating the arrival of the students for the Triwizard Tournament, Rowling chose to serve "bouillabaisse". This is a very typical fish soup from the southeast of France and is not really eaten elsewhere, at least not as a common dish. It is likely, then (though an assumption) that Beauxbatons is on the Mediterranean coast of France (maybe by Marseilles) which could explain as well why the students of Beauxbatons are so cold in Hogwarts.

The word Beauxbatons, roughly translated, means beautiful wands. [b]