Lycée Louis-le-Grand

Offers tuition-free public secondary education with varied academic pathways, personalized guidance, language learning, student activities and targeted outreach support.

Prepares students for competitive entry to leading higher-education institutions through scientific, literary, and economic and commercial pathways.

Builds combined data-science and humanities expertise to describe, understand and analyse cultural productions and phenomena across forms and eras.

Lycée Louis-le-Grand secondary education

Lycée Louis-le-Grand provides public secondary education in seconde, première and terminale through general and technological pathways. Students can choose from a broad range of specialities and optional courses, including European English and oriental Chinese sections with some subjects taught in the relevant language. The school provides personalized academic support and orientation guidance, international exchanges, and cultural, sporting and student-led activities. Its Cordées de la réussite – Tremplin vers LLG outreach programme supports middle-school students from REP and REP+ schools through academic classes, theatre, cultural activities and conferences. Students accepted into the lycée can receive continued academic, practical and financial support.

• Access Support From Priority-School Outreach
  The programme welcomes middle-school students from REP and REP+ schools, with places for 100 students across 26 source schools.
• Choose Between General And Technological Pathways
  Students can select a general or STI2D technological route. The STI2D pathway offers a choice between information systems and digital technology and technological innovation and eco-design.
• Select Specialities And Optional Courses
  Students can shape their studies through subject specialities and optional courses, including humanities, sciences, languages, ancient cultures and additional inter-establishment courses.
• Build Core Subject Knowledge
  Classes in French, mathematics and history-geography provide academic instruction to participating middle-school students. Accepted students also receive mathematics classes during the rentrée stage.
• Study Subjects Through English Or Chinese
  Students in these sections receive reinforced English or Chinese instruction and study a non-language subject in that language, with life and earth sciences taught in English or mathematics taught in Chinese.
• Access Personalized Guidance And Learning Support
  Students receive personalized support and help with orientation choices. Tremplin vers LLG participants can receive ongoing mathematics and physical sciences support, a rentrée stage, equipment loans and financial assistance.
• Participate In Cultural And Student-Led Activities
  Students can join clubs and activities such as theatre, music, concerts and humanitarian initiatives. Tremplin participants can also attend cultural outings and theatre classes, with accepted students able to continue classes and perform for the school community.
• Apply Through The Secondary Admissions Process
  Prospective students apply through the school’s admissions process. Seconde eligibility includes students from specified academies and students whose families are domiciled in Île-de-France; admission is decided through a specific commission.
• Access Public Education Without Tuition
  The school provides public secondary education and states that its teaching is free and accessible to all.
• Join International Exchanges And School Trips
  Students can take part in exchanges and trips with partner schools, with some lasting up to six weeks. A network partnership also offers the possibility of spending part of seconde in a French international school.
• Practice Sports And Join Competitions
  Students can take part in regular sports activities and represent the school in inter-school competitions, including events organized through the Union Nationale du Sport Scolaire.
• Discover New Academic Topics
  Conferences on neuroscience and orientation expose participants to additional academic and educational topics.

Classes préparatoires aux grandes écoles (CPGE)

Lycée Louis-le-Grand offers public preparatory classes for students seeking entry to grandes écoles and other leading higher-education institutions. Its scientific, literary, and economic and commercial pathways include first- and second-year classes, with subject options and specializations that vary by stream. The classes prepare students for competitive entrance examinations. First-year applications follow the national Parcoursup procedure, and separate routes are provided for second-year admissions.

• Choose A Scientific Specialization
  Students can follow a scientific pathway focused on mathematics and physics, mathematics and physics with chemistry, or mathematics, physics and computer science. Subject options shape progression into second-year classes.
• Prepare For Higher-Education Entrance Exams
  Students receive preparation for competitive entry to grandes écoles and other leading higher-education institutions, with examination information and pathway results available from the school.
• Prepare For Business School Competitions
  The ECG pathway provides a structured two-year route toward competitive entrance examinations for business schools.
• Explore Literary Subject Specializations
  Students can pursue literary studies with specializations across humanities, languages, literature and cinema-audiovisual.
• Apply Through The National Platform
  Applicants use Parcoursup and follow its published calendar and required steps to apply for first-year preparatory classes.
• Explore Second-Year Entry Routes
  Students seeking a second-year place can consult the applicable route, which depends on their current establishment, location and circumstances.
• Consider Boarding And Financial Support
  Applicants can consider boarding availability alongside their CPGE application and find information about student bursaries and financial aid through the school's support channels.

CPES Sciences des données, arts et cultures

A multidisciplinary PSL degree offered in partnership with Lycée Louis-le-Grand, combining data sciences with the humanities and cultural studies. The three-year programme uses project-based teaching, introduces students to research and progressively develops their specialisation. Students begin with equal foundations in quantitative sciences and humanities, choose a double major in the second year and specialise in the third year. Taught by PSL university instructors and Lycée Louis-le-Grand teachers in small groups, the programme prepares students interested in mathematics and programming to develop combined expertise in data and the humanities.

• Build Data And Humanities Expertise
  Students develop combined data and humanities skills to engage with cultural subjects through a scientific and humanistic education.
• Choose A Progressive Study Path
  Students begin with a balanced foundation, choose a second-year double major pairing data sciences with cultural studies, environment, economics and social sciences, or history and philosophy, and select a specialisation in the third year.
• Analyse And Understand Cultural Phenomena
  Students develop data-science expertise to describe, understand and analyse cultural productions and phenomena across their forms and historical periods.
• Learn Across Partner Institutions
  Students take part in a programme delivered by PSL university and Lycée Louis-le-Grand.
• Learn Through Projects
  Project-based teaching forms part of the programme's approach to multidisciplinary higher education.
• Access Practical Student Support
  Available support measures include housing assistance, financial aid and tutoring, particularly for students receiving scholarships.
• Explore Research
  Students receive an introduction to research within the programme.
• Study In Small Groups
  Teaching in small groups is a stated feature of the programme.