Cite Scolaire Internationale de Lyon

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The Cité Scolaire Internationale (CSI) of Lyon aims to welcome students wishing to follow an international school curriculum within the French education system leading to the OIB (International Option of the Baccalaureate). The CSI hosts nine International Sections: English-speaking (subdivided into high school into English and American sections), German-speaking, Spanish-speaking, Italian-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, Japanese-speaking, Polish-speaking, Chinese-speaking, Arab-speaking.
These nine International Sections are present from elementary school to high school. If the elementary school and the college welcome exclusively students of Sections Internationale, the high school also welcomes pupils of the geographic sector. The Anglophone or English-speaking Section is part of the Cité Scolaire Internationale (CSI) in Lyon, a French state school with international sections. We offer children who are already fluent in English and education unique in the Lyon area: an English as a first language syllabus (native or near-native level), within the French state system.
The Anglophone Section is the largest in the CSI, with over 500 pupils. We teach children from Primary through to High School. All section pupils get the best of both worlds: the rigor for which the French system is justly proud, combined with the encouragement for creativity and self-expression that is a feature of Anglophone educational practice.
Anglophone section pupils leaving the CSI are well equipped to continue their education anywhere in the English-speaking world. They sit the Option Internationale du Baccalauréat (OIB), a bilingual diploma which is the French Baccalaureate with its additional component, the International Option. The OIB is equivalent to a British A-Level (British Option) or Advanced Placement (American Option) and is recognized by Anglophone universities worldwide. CSI students also sit the IGCSE (International General Certificate of Secondary Education) in English, as students in the UK.
Although part of the French state system, the Anglophone Section is fee-paying, run by a non-profit making association, the Association des Parents d’Elèves de la Section Anglophone (APESA), governed by a parent board. The CSI is a state institution and cannot privately employ teachers. The Anglophone section is represented by the APESA Board, which employs the Head of Section, teachers, and non-teaching staff. The Board is also responsible for all the other legal and organizational matters relating to the teachers and staff, as well as managing the budget and reporting back to parents.

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