Lycée Franco-Mexicain
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The Lycée Franco-Mexicain is a private French Lycée located in Mexico City's Polanco district. It is one of the largest French Lycées in the world with over 3000 students in two campuses, Polanco in northern Mexico City and Coyoacán in the South, there is also another dependency located in the city of Cuernavaca, capital of the state of Morelos, called École Molière de Cuernavaca.
The Lycée was established in 1937 so that the extensive French community in Mexico could give a french education and culture to their family and stay linked to their motherland. Since then the school has evolved a lot and the amount of students has considerably increased. Now adays the school receives every year mostly French-Mexican and Mexican students, but also sons of many diplomats from all over the world, the sons of all the French expatriated workers and many other students from other european countries.
The academic level of the school is extremely good and it is one of the best schools in Mexico City (on the same level than the Mexican-Japanese Lyceum and the Alexander Von Humbolt German School). The results of the Baccalauréat are especially good, with 97% of students having passed the exam.
Artists, Scientists, CEOs, Academics and Politicians (as former Secretary of Foreign Affairs Jorge Castañeda Gutman and acclaimed German historian Friedrich Katz) all studied at the LFM, among many other distinguished alumni.
