Lycée français Marie Curie de Zurich


Lycée Français Marie Curie de Zurich is a French international school in four campuses in Dübendorf in the Zurich metropolitan area.
As of 2012 most of the students are French nationals.

Accreditation

By Swiss authorities

LFZ's Kindergarten and primary education program as well as its lower secondary education program are approved by the bureau for elementary school, administration for education, canton of Zurich.
However LFZ's upper secondary education program is neither approved as a Mittelschule by the bureau for gymnasial and vocational education, administration of education, canton of Zurich, nor approved by the Swiss Federal State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation.

By French authorities

The Lycée Français Marie Curie de Zurich is one of 493 registered establishments, which form the network of French schools abroad. As such, it is approved by the French Minister of Education. This guarantees compliance with the French curriculum as well as the recognition of the choice of study pathways and the exams taken by the pupils. On the other hand, it depends upon the French Minister of Foreign Affairs and more specifically on the Agency for French Teaching Abroad, in Paris.
The Lycée Français Marie Curie de Zurich offers education from kindergarten to the baccalaureate exams, the official diploma accredited by the French minister of National Education. It is recognised for accessing institutes of higher education in France and in Europe as well as gaining a university education in Switzerland, on the basis of a successful French Baccalaureat, but not on the basis of a Swiss Matura.
3 series of General Baccalaureat:
and possibility to choose a European Baccalaureat.

History

The Lycée Français Marie Curie de Zurich is an establishment in Switzerland that forms part of the Network for French Teaching Abroad. Now more than fifty years old, it is experiencing a growth in appeal, currently schooling more than 750 pupils between 4 sites.
Founded in 1956 by a group of parents, the French school taught its first class on the premises of the Catholic Mission on Hottingerstrasse. It then moved into a private property on Bergstrasse, where it stayed for twenty years. In 1980 it moved into its current premises, "im Tobelacker 22" in the village of Gockhausen, near the centre of Zurich.
After decades of steady growth, due to Zurich’s increasing appeal as an attractive professional destination, the LFZ has not stopped growing.
In 2003 the LFZ opened its doors on a second site and the Secondary school moved into the new building. Situated on Ursprungstrasse 10, in Gockhausen, it is not far from the Im Tobelacker site. With the ever-increasing number of pupils, the LFZ has been renting premises at Dübendorf-Stettbach to accommodate the nursery school since 2007.
As of 1 September 2011, premises belonging to the training college "SAWI" in Dübendorf-Stettbach have been rented to accommodate the lycée students.
At the start of term for the academic year 2015-16, the LFZ had students from over 400 families of French, Swiss and numerous other nationalities.
Milestone : 2016 - 60th anniversary with opening of the new building "Nouveau LFZ 2016" that will gather the 4 sites in 1 in the Hochbord neighbourhood, Duebendorf.
As of 2012 the school had about 760 students. In a period before that year, PSA Peugeot Citroën had established operations in the Zurich area, causing an increase in the LFZ's student body.

Campuses

The Ursprungstrasse 10 secondary school campus, serving collège and lycée and housing the school administration, is located in Gockhausen, an area within Dübendorf; the primary school campus at Im Tobelacker 22 is also in that area. The nursery campus and an annex of the lycée, the latter of which is within the "SAWI" training college, are located in Stettbach, another area of Dübendorf; these premises are rented. The Gockhausen premises are owned by the school.