Lycée Victor Hugo is a French international school in Marrakesh, Morocco. It is named after Victor Hugo and serves levels collège (middle school) and lycée (sixth form college/senior high school)."Lycée Victor-Hugo." Lycée Victor Hugo. Retrieved on May 12, 2016. "Route de la Targa, B.P. 2406, 40000 Marrakech" - Coordinates are: "31°38'28.5"N 8°01'27.5"W"
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.
The school was founded in the 1960s in the former quartier Lamy, a part of a French military assembly area, after the previously established primary and secondary schools were given to the Moroccan government."Histoire." Lycée Victor Hugo. Retrieved on May 12, 2016. "Tous les établissements d’enseignement primaire et les lycées, construits sur des terrains marocains, devaient être laissés, au 1er juillet 1962, au Ministère Marocain de l’Instruction Publique. A Marrakech, la France avait édifié au cours des années précédentes, route de Targa, un grand ensemble militaire destiné aux armées françaises. La France en a acheté une partie (le quartier Lamy) afin de construire le futur établissement français."
It is a part of the Cité Scolaire Hugo-Renoir,"BIENVENUE SUR LE SITE DU LYCEE VICTOR HUGO DE MARRAKECH." Lycée Victor Hugo. Retrieved on May 12, 2016. which also houses the primary school École Auguste Renoir."Bienvenue à l'École Auguste Renoir de Marrakech !." École Auguste Renoir de Marrakech. Retrieved on May 12, 2016. Founded in its current form in 1962 within the French cultural mission in Morocco. In 2022, the school welcomes about 2050 students (schoolchildren, middle school and high school students). The Auguste-Renoir primary school, which is attached to it as part of a school complex, has some 800 students.
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External links Lycée Victor Hugo