Lycée Francais D'Alep
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The Lycée Français d'Alep , known also as MLF lycée d'Alep, École Française or the French school, is a French lycée in the city of Aleppo
Aleppo
Aleppo is the largest city in Syria and the capital of Aleppo Governorate, the most populous Syrian governorate. With an official population of 2,301,570 , expanding to over 2.5 million in the metropolitan area, it is also one of the largest cities in the Levant...

, Syria
Syria
Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest....

 founded in 1997 by the Mission laïque française
Mission laïque française
The Mission laïque française , or "French lay mission", is a non-profit organization that works to spread the French language and culture by creating and running schools outside of France.-School network:...

, an organization which also helped found other lycées all over the world.

The school is located at Cordoba Hills neighborhood near Kafar-Joum settlement, 15 km south-west of Aleppo city, near the Aleppo-Damascus highway. It is a large educational complex consisting of several buildings and sports facilities. The Lycée Français d'Alep, along with the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle de Damas (opened in 2008) are the only French schools in Syria which are accredited by the French Ministry of National Education.

Programme

As a French accredited institution, the school follows the official teaching programmes of the French Republic. The school offers a complete education programme of 15 years which starts with a preliminary 3 years of kindergarten classes and ends by achieving a French baccalaureate degree with two options: "Economic & Social (ES)" and "Scientific (S)". The baccalaureate allows graduates to continue their studying in French universities all over the world as well as some other American, Canadian, European and Middle Eastern universities.

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