Lycée Français d'Alicante (LFA; ) is a French international school in El Campello, Alicante Province, Spain.Home page. Lycée Français d'Alicante. Retrieved on 30 April 2015. "Camino de Marco, 21 (03560) El Campello – Alicante " It serves maternelle/educación infantil (preschool) through lycée/bachillerato."El colegio." Lycée Français d'Alicante. Retrieved on 30 April 2015.
the main campus, which is adjacent to Villa Marco, has about 1,300 students. This campus is large."Histoire"/"Historia / Quiénes somos." Lycée Français d'Alicante. Retrieved on 29 September 2016.
The École française Pablo Picasso, an annex of the Lycée Français d'Alicante, is located in Benidorm."Les données de la zone Europe Ibérique ." AEFE. Retrieved on May 7, 2015. It is inside the Finca Barrina - Norte complex."Centros enseñanza." CCI FRANCE ESPAGNE. Retrieved on January 5, 2017. "École française de Benidorm (Anexo del Lycée français d’Alicante) Carretera de Callosa, 16 Finca Barrina - Norte, apt 2 03502 Benidorm " But closed in 2018.
History The school, which opened in 1962, was established by pied-noir people leaving Algeria. In the aftermath of the Independence of Algeria large numbers of pied-noirs settled in Alicante,Kidd, William. "The Long Good-Bye: Pied Noir Re-Settlement in the Pyrénées-Orientales" (Chapter 2). In: Gemie, Sharif and Scott Soo (editors). Coming Home? Vol. 2: Conflict and Postcolonial Return Migration in the Context of France and North Africa, 1962-2009, Volume 2 (EBSCO ebook academic collection). Cambridge Scholars Publishing, July 18, 2014. , 9781443864169. Start: 33. CITED: p. 38. leading to the establishment of the new French school.Kidd, William. "The Long Good-Bye: Pied Noir Re-Settlement in the Pyrénées-Orientales" (Chapter 2). In: Gemie, Sharif and Scott Soo (editors). Coming Home? Vol. 2: Conflict and Postcolonial Return Migration in the Context of France and North Africa, 1962-2009, Volume 2 (EBSCO ebook academic collection). Cambridge Scholars Publishing, July 18, 2014. , 9781443864169. Start: 33. CITED: p. 49. (See footnote 34 which refers to page 38)
It was initially inside an apartment building on Calle San Vicente. Until 1965 the school occupied a building in Alicante. That year it moved to a different building in , Alicante. In 1970 it moved again to , Alicante. Several pied-noirs had moved to Albufereta; 65 of them lived there in 1965. By 2001 French-speakers had a lot of influence in Albufereta and French was commonly spoken there.Sempere Souvannavong, Juan David. "Les pieds-noirs à Alicante" (PDF; PDF Archive). Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales. Vol. 17, n°3, 2001. pp. 173-198. doi : 10.3406/remi.2001.1800. CITED: p. 189 (PDF p. 20/29), Albufereta identified on the previous page.
In 2005 the school moved into its current location in El Campello.
See also Liceo Español Luis Buñuel, a Spanish international school near Paris, France
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Lycée Français d'Alicante Benidorm School, LFA