Lycée Claudel d'Ottawa

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The Lycée Claudel d'Ottawa is a small French private school in Ottawa, located on Old Riverside Drive. The school has approximately 850 students in grades JK-12. It follows the French international curriculum and all classes, with the exception of English classes, are taught in French. The students complete the French baccalaureat at the end of grade 12 (called "Terminale"). It is very well-known for producing couche-tards here.

Recently, the bus stop facing the school was renamed the Lycée Claudel Station. This was a great honour for the school and a source of much pride.

The school is also competitive in many fields; it has been junior boy's soccer champion and tennis champion in both boy's and girl's categories in the city of Ottawa. Students Philippe Boisvert and Jean-Christophe Martel were National French Debating Champions of Canada in 2002 and 2003, respectively. Christine Mikolajuk and Greta Levy were Regional, Provincial and National Bilingual Debating Champions in 2003 and 2004, respectively.

As the school is located in Canada's national capital, some Canadian politicians' children are among its alumni, including the children of former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and of current Quebec Premier Jean Charest.