The Lycée Kléber is a French public
secondary school
A secondary school describes an institution that provides secondary education and also usually includes the building where this takes place. Some secondary schools provide both '' secondary education, lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) ...
located in the
Alsatian capital
Strasbourg
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. This lycée bears the name of the famous French
Général Kléber who was murdered in
Egypt
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in 1800.
Diploma
It offers both a secondary-level curriculum (a ''
lycée
In France, secondary education is in two stages:
* ''Collèges'' () cater for the first four years of secondary education from the ages of 11 to 15.
* ''Lycées'' () provide a three-year course of further secondary education for children between ...
'', with a student body of around 2.000), and a university-level curriculum (known as
''classes préparatoires'', or ''prépas'', also with about 900 pupils), preparing students for entrance to the
elite
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* Grandes y San Martín, a municipality located in the province of Ávila, Castile and León, Spain ...
. At the yearly competitive entrance examinations for the scientific and business
Grandes Écoles Grandes may refer to:
* Agustín Muñoz Grandes, Spanish general and politician
*Banksia ser. Grandes, a series of plant species native to Australia
* Grandes y San Martín, a municipality located in the province of Ávila, Castile and León, Spain ...
, students from the Lycée Kléber's ''classes préparatoires'' regularly have good results.
Notes
*The lycée Kléber prepares students to sit for the ''
baccalauréat général''. They have to choose one of three streams (termed ''séries'') in the penultimate ''
lycée
In France, secondary education is in two stages:
* ''Collèges'' () cater for the first four years of secondary education from the ages of 11 to 15.
* ''Lycées'' () provide a three-year course of further secondary education for children between ...
'' year. The streams for the ''baccalauréat général'' are as follows:
**''scientifique'' (sciences)
**''économique et sociale'' (economics and social sciences)
**''littéraire'' (literature)
*There are about 22 ''classes préparatoires''
External links
*
Official Website
Kleber
Schools in Strasbourg
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