Locminé (; br, Logunec'h) is a commune in the

Morbihan Morbihan ( , ; br, Mor-Bihan ) is a department in the administrative region of Brittany, situated in the northwest of France. It is named after the Morbihan (''small sea'' in Breton), the enclosed sea that is the principal feature of the coast ...

department and

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of north-western

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Toponymy

The name Locminé comes from the Breton ''Loc'h menec'h'', itself from the Latin ''Locus monachorum'' – (sacred) place of the monks – after the monastery established here in 1008. Use of the term ''loc'h'' to denote the many small monasteries founded in Brittany between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries was commonplace, and this is the origin of the majority of parish names beginning in ''Loc-''.

Population

Education

Locminé is home to the following educational establishments: *Primary **École primaire privée Notre Dame du Plaske (ages 3–11) **École maternelle publique Réné Guy Cadou (ages 3–6) **École élémentaire publique Annick Pizigot (ages 6–11) :As of September 2019, 153 children (i.e. 22.5% of all those enrolled) were being educated in the bilingual ( Breton /

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) streams of Locminé's primary schools.Office Publique de la Langue Bretonne
*Junior secondary ("middle schools") **Collège privé Jean-Pierre Calloc'h (ages 11–15) **Collège public Jean Moulin (ages 11–15) *Senior secondary ("high schools") **Lycée professionnel privé Anne de Bretagne (ages 15+) **Lycée professionnel public Louis Armand (ages 15+) :The lycées professionnels are

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high schools. Students from Locminé wishing to pursue "general" or "technical" courses (leading, potentially, to university-level education) must enrol at lycées further away, in, for example,

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(22 km) or

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(26 km).

Twin towns

Locminé is

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with: *

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