Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle

From Freepedia

The Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle is a large French secondary school situated in South Kensington, London. It caters for approximately 3,100 pupils between the ages of 3 and 18, and teaches predominantly in French. Usually referred to simply as "the Lycée", the school is an important centre for London's sizeable French community (thought to number several hundred thousand) as well as one of the most academically-successful French schools outside of France. Its curriculum and management are overseen by the French National Ministry of Education through the Agency for the Teaching of French Abroad (AEFE).

The vast majority of the teaching done at the Lycée is in French and caters to French curricula and indeed, as far as quatrième (at the age of 14/15), all pupils are taught entirely in French. From troisième onwards (equivalent to Year Nine), pupils can opt either to stay in French Section and study for their Brevet and their Baccalauréat or to transfer to British Section and work towards their GCSEs and A-levels. The British section is known to outclass the French in academic performance, despite its disturbing cannabis scandals that tend to shake its reputation every so often.