Liceo Español Luis Buñuel (LELB, Spanish Lycee “Luis Buñuel", ) is a Spanish international school in
Neuilly-sur-Seine
Neuilly-sur-Seine (; 'Neuilly-on-Seine'), also known simply as Neuilly, is an urban Communes of France, commune in the Hauts-de-Seine Departments of France, department just west of Paris in France. Immediately adjacent to the city, north of the ...
,
France
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, in the
Paris metropolitan area
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Overview
In 2020, France's national INSEE statistical bureau introduced the concept "ai ...
. Operated by the
Spanish Ministry of Education, the school has ''secundaria obligatoria'' (required lower secondary school) courses and ''
bachillerato
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'' (Spanish baccalaureate, non-compulsory) education.
The
Colegio Español Federico García Lorca, the Paris-area Spanish international primary school, is located in the
16th arrondissement of Paris
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.
History
The decree of 29-XI-1962 created a Spanish Ministry of Education-dependent school in the ''rue de la Pompe'' Spanish mission. The Neuilly campus construction began according to the order of 3 March 1966. The ''liceo'' was formally created by the decree of 21 September 1967. Prior to the 2005 renaming, the school was the Liceo Español de París ().
[Historia del Liceo Español]
" Liceo Español Luis Buñuel. Retrieved on May 2, 2015.
The current facility opened in 2004 and was officially inaugurated on 29 March 2006, with
King of Spain
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The Spanish ...
Juan Carlos I
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attending.
Student body
As of 2015 the school had 217 students. 149 of them were Spanish and 68 were not Spanish. Most of the non-Spanish students originated from Latin America.
[
As of the 2015–2016 school year, 85.2% of the school's 230 students were Spanish nationals.][''El mundo estudia español. 2016''. Spanish Ministry of Education. p]
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See also
* List of French international schools in Spain
* Luis Buñuel
Luis Buñuel Portolés (; 22 February 1900 – 29 July 1983) was a Spanish and Mexican filmmaker who worked in France, Mexico and Spain. He has been widely considered by many film critics, historians and directors to be one of the greatest and ...
, Spanish filmmaker
References
External links
Liceo Español Luis Buñuel
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English information
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French information
Le lycée espagnol Luis Buñuel
" Memorias, FACEEF (Fédération d’associations et de centres d’émigrés espagnols en France).
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Luis Buñuel
International schools in Île-de-France
Neuilly-sur-Seine
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Lycées in Hauts-de-Seine
Schools in Hauts-de-Seine
Secondary schools in France