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| Country: | Germany |
| Coordinates: | 49.2301°N 7.0164°W |
| Mapframe-Zoom: | 12 |
| Pushpin Map: | Germany Saarland#Germany |
| Opened: | 25 September 1961 as a cooperation between a French and a German school |
| Type: | French-German School (DFG/LFA) |
| Principal: | Stefan Hauter (Saarbrücken), Clarit Alofs (AEFE)[1] |
| Enrollment: | over 1,000[2] |
| Faculty: | ca. 100 |
| Newspaper: | C'est la vie,[3] Camäléon[4] |
DFG LFA Saarbrücken (French: '''Lycée Franco-Allemand de Sarrebruck''', German: '''Deutsch-Französisches Gymnasium Saarbrücken''' is a French-German international gymnasium/collège and lycée (grades 5 to 12) in Saarbrücken, Germany.[5] It is jointly administered by the French education agency AEFE and the local Regionalverband Saarbrücken district.[6] [7]
The school is one of the DFG / LFA established in the 1963 Élysée Treaty between France and West Germany; the school was established in as a cooperation between a French and a German school and later became one school.[8]
The school's operation is detailed in the Schwerin Agreement signed by France and Germany in 2002. For instance, the students enter the school into a French or a German branch. They are integrated for the last three years before graduation, during which they are co-taught in both French and German. Students receive marks on a scale from 1 to 10, which differs both from the German and French school marks system.[9]
German international schools in France: