← Back to homeLycée Français International d'Alicante Pierre Deschamps
El Campello, Spain · est. 1962 · Private
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The Pierre Deschamps lycée stands not in Alicante itself but in El Campello, in a quiet residential district right by the sea, and it occupies twenty hectares. The school has run since 1962, has belonged to the Mission laïque française network since 1972 and is homologated by the AEFE from the youngest kindergarten level to the final year; its courses are approved by both the French and the Spanish ministry. The central thing about it is three languages at once and from the very start: from the age of two a child hears French, Spanish and English, there are always two adults in the room - a teacher and an educator - and the child may speak to either in their own language. Later the languages are not confined to language lessons: PE, geometry and art are taught in English or Spanish (the school calls this the EMILE approach), and the goal by graduation is C1 in all three plus the official DELF, DELE and Cambridge certificates. The senior stage adds German or Latin and mathematics in English. The leaving document is the French baccalauréat: the school prepares for it, for the French brevet and for the Spanish selectividad, and in the class of 2025-2026 all 108 pupils passed the baccalauréat and all 89 the brevet. The campus covers nearly everything the school needs: a covered sports pavilion, a covered swimming pool, an athletics track, basketball courts, a climbing wall, physics and science laboratories, computer rooms, a technology workshop, a CDI holding more than twenty thousand items, separate libraries for each stage and its own dining hall for each stage. Swimming is part of the curriculum from the age of five.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $7 366–8 890 a year
6 520–7 869 EUR
Programmes
French programme
Languages of instruction
French
Languages taught
Spanish, English, German
About the fees The school publishes its fees itself, as annual amounts for the 2026-2027 school year: kindergarten (maternelle) and primary (CP - CM2) - 6520 euros, collège (6e - 3e) - 7323 euros, lycée (2nde - terminale) - 7869 euros. The amounts for tuition, the canteen and after-school care are annual; the fees for new admission and re-enrolment are paid once a year.
Admissions The school does not set out its admissions procedure on the site: the registration page offers only two actions - book an open day or ask for a separate visit or video call through a form - and names no documents, deadlines or entrance tests. It does give the age range: it takes children from two into TPS and carries them to eighteen. Command of the languages is no obstacle by the design of the programme: in the kindergarten there are always two adults in the class, a teacher and an educator, and a child may speak to either in Spanish or French. The school does take foreign pupils: by its own account it has about 1500 pupils of more than 25 nationalities, and teaching is in three languages from the very start. For pupils not from the French system the admissions committee may, after studying the file, set a level test, which costs 120 euros; the school names no other requirements for foreign pupils, such as homologation of documents or knowledge of French or Spanish.
Stages and year groups Grades TPS from age 2 - final year, age 18. The stages run straight through. The kindergarten is four levels of one cycle: TPS from two, PS from three, MS from four, GS from five, with mixed-age classes. The primary school is two cycles: grades 1 to 3 and grades 4 to 6, 26 hours a week. The middle stage is cycle 4, grades 6 to 8 by the French count, and it ends with the French brevet (DNB). The senior stage is three years: seconde, which the school calls the fourth year of ESO, and two years of bachillerato, in which a student picks three specialist subjects. The weekly load in the kindergarten and the primary school is 26 hours, Monday to Friday.
Address Camino de Marco 21, 03560 El Campello, Alicante
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
AEFE · accreditationMission laïque française · school is part of the networkschool is in an official registryconfirmed by a school document, by membership or by taking part in a networkclaimed by the school, no confirmation, not counted in the scoreGuide to all organisations → What stands behind each entry
AEFEAgency for French Education Abroad
It runs the network of French schools worldwide, while the accreditation itself, the homologation, is granted by the French education ministry and inspected by French state inspectors. A leaver from a homologated school moves into a school in France without an entrance examination. Homologation is granted stage by stage, so it sometimes covers only part of the year groups.
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The state programme of France. A school is homologated by the French ministry of education, and a leaver may move into a school in France without entrance tests. Homologation is granted stage by stage, so it sometimes covers only part of the year groups.
What this means for this school. Which year groups of this school are covered by homologation - only the primary ones, or all the way to the final year - is not stated here. The difference matters: it decides whether the school takes a child through to the French baccalaureate or hands them on to another school halfway.
Mission laïque françaiseschool network
Mission laïque française (MLF) is a French non-profit association founded in 1902; its school network is called Réseau mlfmonde. The network gives different figures on its own pages - 108 schools in 38 countries on some, 107 schools in 37 countries on another, with more than 61,000 students in both cases - and we quote both. In Spain the network lists 10 lycées, in Alicante, Murcia, Palma, Reus, Seville, Telde (Gran Canaria), Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Valladolid, Villanueva de la Cañada (Madrid) and Zaragoza. In a notice dated 21 September 2026, MLF writes that since 1 September 2026 the day-to-day management of its Spanish schools has been entrusted to the association AFLEC-GEE under a management mandate, refers to 9 schools, and says the legal transfer of each will be completed by 31 July 2028 at the latest. The notice does not say which of the ten schools is not among the nine. The network's site is mlfmonde.org.
What this means for this school. The network owns or operates the school. Its accreditation and programme authorisation the school obtains separately, in its own name.
Exams and destinations from the school's official website
Exam results The class of the 2025-2026 school year: 108 out of 108 pupils passed the baccalauréat, with distinctions: no distinction 15, Assez Bien 28, Bien 26, Très Bien 31 and Très Bien with the jury's congratulations 8 - that is, 86.11 per cent gained a distinction. 89 out of 89 passed the brevet: no distinction 10, Assez Bien 14, Bien 34, Très Bien 22, with the jury's congratulations 9. A year earlier 23 pupils gained Très Bien in the baccalauréat and 5 the jury's congratulations. Separately the school names 81 per cent of leavers going on to top-tier universities.
Facilities from the school's official website
✓Swimming pool
✓Sports hall
✓Laboratories
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
✓Library
✓Catering
✓School transport
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Sports ground or field
Campus: Twenty hectares in a quiet residential district of El Campello, next to the beach; the school calls the main building Villa Marcos. Sport: a covered pavilion, a covered swimming pool, an athletics track, basketball courts, a climbing wall, a multi-purpose hall, table-tennis tables. Study: physics and science laboratories, computer rooms, a technology workshop, a psychomotor room for the youngest. Reading: a CDI for the middle and senior stages holding more than twenty thousand items, separate libraries for the kindergarten, the primary and the secondary school, and a media library for the youngest. Meals are served in a separate dining hall for each stage. The Alicante - LFIA - Alicante school bus is run by the partner Vectalia; city bus 21 and tram line 3 also serve the school. Catering is run by Colevisa - a cafeteria and canteens.
Clubs and activities (7): Theatre · Robotics · Art · Sport with Mundosport club · CSLFIA solidarity club · NUMAD Model United Nations · Solid'Artes art activities
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
·Teacher qualificationsnot stated
·Number of teachersthe school does not say
·Students per teacher or class sizenot stated
The school does not publish its teaching staff by name. Only the head is named - Florence Llopis, with seventeen years as a head in France and abroad, previously a primary and life-sciences teacher - and it says the management team is drawn from both the French and the Spanish education systems. There is no number of teachers, no qualifications and no pupil-teacher ratio on the site.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
·CCTVnot stated on the website
·Security staffnot stated on the website
·Access controlnot stated on the website
✓Nurse or medical room
✓Counsellor
·Child protection policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
The school has two qualified nurses, and the infirmary is open every day from 8:00 to 18:00: first aid, medication when needed, and dietary supervision for allergies and intolerances. There is a school psychologist who helps pupils with personal, academic and family conflicts and in tense periods such as preparation for the baccalauréat and the Spanish selectividad. From grade 6 to graduation a pupil is followed by the information and guidance teacher (PRIO). The school names no security staff, no CCTV and no written child protection policy.
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Academics and programmes (16%)72 Community rating (16%)no dataparent reviews are needed: the criterion switches on at the fifth verified one Exams and destinations (12%) scored on disclosed data80 Safety and wellbeing (12%) scored on disclosed data65 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data90 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data78 "Scored on disclosed data" stands where we count only what the school has written about itself on its own site: exams and destinations, safety and wellbeing, teaching staff, facilities, clubs and activities. A low score here means the school does not write about this, not that the school does not have it: a school with good security and a sparse site will score low. A school can fill in its profile, and the score will be counted again.
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