Lycée international de Ferney-Voltaire is a public secondary school in

Ferney-Voltaire Ferney-Voltaire () is a commune in the Ain department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of eastern France. It lies between the Jura Mountains and the Swiss border; it forms part of the metropolitan area of Geneva. It is named for Voltaire, ...

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. The school serves junior high school (''collège'') and senior high school/sixth form college (''lycée'') students. It has a branch campus in Saint-Genis-Pouilly. The school has British, Dutch, German, Italian, Spanish, and Swedish sections. In addition to Ferney-Voltaire and Saint-Genis-Pouilly, it serves

Prévessin-Moëns Prévessin-Moëns () is a commune in the Department of Ain, in France. It is located in the western suburbs of Geneva. Geography The commune of Prévessin-Moëns is situated between the Jura mountains and the Alps, with a view of Mont Blan ...

. it had about 1,000 junior high students and 1,655 senior high/sixth-form students, making a total of about 2,655 students.

History

It was established with 28 ''6ème'' students in 1961 as the Collège d’enseignement général de Ferney-Voltaire, becoming the Collège d’enseignement secondaire municipal de Ferney-Voltaire in 1970. The following year its ''2nd'' class opened with 70 students, and the school was nationalised in 1972. It was made an international school by decree of 21 March 1978. Its current main campus opened in 1983. A senior high expansion and boarding facility opened in 1992.Présentation historique
" Lycée international de Ferney-Voltaire. Retrieved on 10 November 2018. The Saint Genis Pouilly branch campus opened in 2016. it is in the Porte de France Nord development and occupies .Lycée international
" Saint-Genis-Pouilly. Retrieved on 10 November 2018.

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