lycee

Parisian prep school

A lycée is a French secondary school, roughly equivalent to an American high school or British sixth form.

The term appears in English primarily when discussing French education or French-speaking countries: She attended a lycée in Paris before university.

Also spelled lycee without the accent.

French

première

First public performance

Voltaire · francophone · Marseillaise

academic

curriculum

Educational program's content plan

mathematics · sciences · languages · examinations · dissertation · thesis · humanities · rhetoric · Latin · Greek

secondary

adolescence

Teenage developmental stage

  • teenagersPeople aged thirteen to nineteen
  • youthState of being immature
  • peersThose of equal status

socialization · identity · coming-of-age · friendships · cliques · extracurriculars · graduation · prom · orientation · stress

school

classroom

Educational instruction space

  • professorSenior university teacher
  • studentOne formally enrolled somewhere
  • campusInstitutional grounds and buildings

courtyard · canteen · library · laboratory · blackboard · desk · timetable · attendance · homework · grades

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educational level

lyceeelementary school

Institution for young pupils

primary school · nursery school · kindergarten · preschool · university

educational system origin

lyceehigh school

Upper secondary institution

secondary school · gymnasium · comprehensive school · grammar school · public school

formality of education

lyceehomeschooling

Family-directed academic instruction

unschooling · autodidactism · self-education · apprenticeship

Family

lyceum, lycée

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