Lycée Français du Caire (LFC; ) is the French International School in Cairo, Egypt.Home page. Lycée Français du Caire. Retrieved on 18 January 2015. "Division Cité El Meerag, 2ème Megawra / Le Caire - ÉGYPTE"
It is directly operated by the Agency for French Education Abroad (AEFE), an agency of the French government. - Purple means "Gestion directe" (directly operated), and this school is in the color code for purple.
Structure
There are three primary campuses, with one each in Maadi, New Cairo City, and Zamalek. The secondary classes are held in a campus in El Mearag."L'administration du lycée ." Lycée Français du Caire. Retrieved on 23 January 2015. "El Merag Site secondaire Terrain n°5 Division Cité El Meerag 2ème Megawra " and "Maadi Site primaire 7, rue 12" and "Zamalek Site primaire 8, rue Ibn Zanki" and "Nouveau Caire Site primaire Locaux Ecole Concordia El Tagamoa El Khames El Banafseg 1 New Cairo City"
The school has more than 2000 pupils and 140 teachers.
History The school was founded in 1911, with its first campus being in Maadi. In the 1970s, a second campus was opened in Zamalek.
In 1990 a third campus was opened in Heliopolis. It later relocated to Rehab in 2004 and then to New Cairo in 2015.
Between 2011 and 2013, construction took place on a fourth site in El Mearag to accommodate middle and high school students. The site was officially inaugurated in 2015.
See also
Egypt–France relations
References
External links Lycée Français du Caire website Le site des anciens du Lycée Français du Caire website The unofficial student newspaper The Facebook page supporting the suspended teacher