Svenska Skolan Paris (french: Ecole Suédoise de Paris) is a Swedish

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in the 17th arrondissement of

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. It serves ''maternelle'' (

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), ''primaire'' (

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), ''collège'' (

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), and ''lycée'' (

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). The school was founded in 1879. It is the oldest of the Swedish schools established in other countries and was originally built close to

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. A Swedish school had become necessary after hundreds of Swedish carpenters had moved to Paris in the latter half of the 19th century. It moved to rue Médéric, next to the

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in Paris, in the early 1900s. Most of the students are children of Swedish citizens working for Swedish companies in France. Roughly 100 students study at the school, mainly

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students but since the year 2000 it also houses

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students. It is also possible to choose to study at the school for Swedish students who have their families in Sweden; the school will place these students with a host family. In the 1990s, the school went through an internationalization, putting more emphasis on English.

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