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is a senior high school/sixth-form college in

Sarcelles Sarcelles () is a commune in the northern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris. Sarcelles is a sub-prefecture of the Val-d'Oise department and the seat of the arrondissement of Sarcelles. In the south of the commun ...

Val-d'Oise Val-d'Oise (, "Vale of the Oise") is a department in the Île-de-France region, Northern France. It was created in 1968 following the split of the Seine-et-Oise department. In 2019, Val-d'Oise had a population of 1,249,674.

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, in the

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. It was originally an annex of the Lycée de Montmorency that opened in October 1960 but it became independent in January 1965 and moved to its current location in October 1966. it has 1,735 students. students from

Villiers-le-Bel Villiers-le-Bel is a commune in the French department of Val-d'Oise, in the northern suburbs of Paris. It is located from the center of Paris. History A tragedy occurred in the town in the early evening of March 25, 1818, when a cracked 6,0 ...

attending general high school studies go to Rousseau, because Villiers-le-Bel does not have its own general high school. () "C'est ainsi que Villiers, ..ais d'aucun lycée d'enseignement général. Les jeunes vont au lycée Jean-Jacques Rousseau de Sarcelles."

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Throughout the decades the student population increased, from 1,600 students in 1975 to 2,400 students in 1989. The school had insufficient ''agents de service'' by the 1990s, with only an increase from 49 agents in 1975 to over 30 agents in 1989, and then a decrease to 28.5 positions in 1994. By 2016 the school had 1,800 students. That year employees of the French offices of

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provided assistance to the school. 15 students who engaged in a playwriting workshop were featured in the documentary ''Changer de regard''; they were in the level ''prèmiere ES'' (equivalent to the U.S. 11th grade or the British first year of sixth-form college).

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Lycée Jean Jacques Rousseau
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