Deutsch-Französisches Gymnasium
There are five French-German secondary schools known in German as Deutsch-Französisches Gymnasium (DFG) and in French as lycée franco-allemand (LFA). Mixing students, teachers and teaching methods of both countries, DFG/LFAs are highly selective schools of excellence. Their teachers are paid by the French and German states, and tuition is free of charge.
| DFG / LFA Deutsch-Französische Gymnasien lycées franco-allemands | |
|---|---|
Freiburg Strasbourg Buc Saarbrücken Hamburg Locations of the DFG/LFAs | |
| Location | |
| France, Germany | |
| District information | |
| Type | International secondary schools |
| Grades | French branch 6–12, German branch 5–12 |
| Established | First school: 1961 (63 years ago); school form legally formalised: 1972 (51 years ago) |
| Governing agency | In France: Central Agency for German Schools Abroad and Académie de Strasbourg / Académie de Versailles In Germany: Agency for French Education Abroad and Baden-Württemberg education ministry / Hamburg education authority / Saarbrücken district |
| Schools | 5 |
In the spirit of post-war friendship and two years before the signing of the conciliatory Éysée Treaty between West Germany and France, the first DFG/LFA was established in Saarbrücken in 1961 as a cooperation between a French and a German school. In 1972, an agreement signed between the two states formalised the DFG/LFA as a unified school form and introduced the French-German Baccalaureate. This agreement was last complemented by the French-German Schwerin Agreement of 2002.
The following DFG/LFAs are in operation, two in France:
- DFG / LFA Buc (opened in 1975), and
- DFG / LFA Strasbourg (2021),
and three in Germany:
- DFG / LFA Saarbrücken (1961),
- DFG / LFA Freiburg (1972), and
- DFG / LFA Hamburg (2020).