Écoles Belges au Maroc (EBM) is a Belgian international school network in
Morocco
Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to ...
. It consists of École Belge de Casablanca, with a primary school location in
Tamaris,
Dar Bouazza
Dar Bouazza ( ar, دار بو عزة, dār bū ʿazza, lit=house of the father of Azza, ber, ⴱⵓⵄⴰⵣⴰ, buɛaza) is a municipality in Nouaceur Province, Casablanca-Settat, Morocco. It is a rapidly growing suburb of Casablanca located ab ...
,
Nouaceur Province
Nouaceur ( ar, إقليم النواصر, french: Province de Nouaceur) is a province in the Morocco, Moroccan region of Casablanca-Settat. Its population in 2004 was 236,119Its major town is Bouskouraalthough the administrative centre is Nouaceur. ...
; and a secondary school location in
Ouled Azzouz
Ouled Bouachra is a town and commune in Médéa Province, Algeria
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, coo ...
; and the École Belge de Rabat in
Rabat
Rabat (, also , ; ar, الرِّبَاط, er-Ribât; ber, ⵕⵕⴱⴰⵟ, ṛṛbaṭ) is the capital city of Morocco and the country's seventh largest city with an urban population of approximately 580,000 (2014) and a metropolitan populati ...
.
The network serves ages 2 1/2-18 and operates under the authority of the
French Community of Belgium
In Belgium, the French Community (french: Communauté française; ) refers to one of the three constituent constitutional linguistic communities. Since 2011, the French Community has used the name Wallonia-Brussels Federation (french: Fédé ...
, also known as the Federation Wallonia-Brussels (FWB). It is a part of the (AEBE).
History
The Casablanca school had 524 students in 2014, when it opened, with its initial campus in Dar Bouazza. Its enrollment was above projections.
By 2015 enrollment was up to 528 students, with 22% of the students being Belgian. That year, there were 42 Belgian and 23 Moroccan teachers. The new secondary campus for the Casablanca school was scheduled to open in 2017.
The Rabat campus was scheduled to open in 2018.
[ Groundbreaking occurred in January 2017. It opened the following year with 250 students.
]
Campuses
The Tamaris campus is about from the Morocco Mall
Morocco Mall ( ar, مول المغرب) is the largest shopping mall in Africa with 190 000m² of floor space in Casablanca, Morocco. Morocco Mall, which opened on December 1, 2011, was designed by Architect Davide Padoa of Design International, a ...
.Contact
" École Belge de Casablanca. Retrieved on October 28, 2015. "Adresse Tamaris à 9km du Morocco Mall Casablanca"
References
Further reading
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External links
Écoles Belges au Maroc
Belgian international schools
International schools in Morocco
Buildings and structures in Casablanca-Settat
International schools in Rabat
2014 establishments in Morocco
Educational institutions established in 2014
21st-century architecture in Morocco
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