Collège-Lycée Lafayette
Bilingual private secondary school in central Nice, sixième to terminale, with subjects taught in French or English. Cambridge exam centre. Hors contrat, so it sets its own programme.
Languages spoken at Collège-Lycée Lafayette
What Collège-Lycée Lafayette offers English speakers in Nice
Collège-Lycée Lafayette occupies around 1,400 square metres on avenue Georges Clemenceau in central Nice and covers the secondary years, sixième through to terminale. Subjects are taught in French or in English depending on the subject rather than duplicated in both, and the school is a Cambridge examination centre, so English certifications are sat in the building. It prepares the Spanish DELE as well. Being small and central, it suits a family who want secondary schooling inside the city instead of a daily run out to a campus in the hills.
Lafayette is hors contrat, outside the contract with the State, and it is worth knowing what that changes. A hors contrat school is not bound to the national programme or its timetables, though it must still bring pupils to the common core of knowledge the law requires. It recruits and pays its own teachers and receives no state funding, which is why fees in the hors contrat sector are higher. The freedom is real and so is the variation between schools, so ask specifically which French diplomas pupils are entered for and what the recent results were.