← Back to homeLycée Français International de Castilla y León
Laguna de Duero, Spain · est. 1980 · Private
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Lycée Français International de Castilla y León is a private French school in Laguna de Duero, fifteen kilometres from Valladolid, and the oldest of the French schools in this batch: founded in 1980, it joined the Mission laïque française network in 1992. The school promises three languages from the age of two - French, Spanish and English - and its stages run from toute petite section to terminale, that is from two-year-olds up to the French baccalauréat; the French ministry's homologation covers fifteen year groups from petite section, while the youngest group, from the age of two, is not homologated. A leaver receives a dual diploma, and the school writes separately about recognition of the French, Spanish and American leaving certificates. The results it publishes are high: 100 per cent passes in the DNB and the baccalauréat, more than 75 per cent of leavers with distinction, and in Cambridge English 95 per cent of first-year lycée pupils reach C1; the school runs a Cambridge examination centre and prepares pupils for DELF, DALF, DELE and the PIX digital certification. Of its services it has its own canteen, a school bus and extracurricular activities; on the building it says only that every classroom has up-to-date equipment, and it offers a virtual tour. One more thing worth saying about its place in the region: the school's operator stresses that this is a secular school where the schools are mostly religious.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $6 564–8 032 a year
5 810–7 110 EUR
Programmes
French programme
Languages of instruction
French
Languages taught
Spanish, English
About the fees The school publishes its fees itself, as tariffs for the 2025-2026 academic year, in euros, as an annual sum and monthly in ten payments: nursery (three years of maternelle) - 5810 euros a year, or 581 a month; primary school, from CP to CM2, - 6880, or 688; collège, from 6ème to 3ème, - 7020, or 702; lycée, from 2nde to terminale, - 7110, or 711 euros. The canteen, the bus and childcare are paid separately.
Admissions The school does take foreigners and says so plainly: it calls itself a multilingual and bicultural French school welcoming pupils of all nationalities, from age two in nursery to the baccalauréat at 18. Enrolment is open, and it starts with a request for information through the form on the site: the school contacts the family, invites it to see the building and in a conversation explains its method, language certificates and the double qualification, discussing the child's needs and goals. The school names no entrance tests, French requirements or deadlines on its enrolment page. Pupils, in the school's words, can continue their studies at any French or Spanish school thanks to the official recognition of the courses.
Stages and year groups Grades toute petite section (age 2) - terminale, up to age 18. The stages run right through: toute petite section and maternelle, primary school, collège and lycée up to the French baccalauréat. Fifteen year groups are homologated, from petite section to terminale, and none of them is taught through the CNED distance system; the youngest group, from the age of two, is not homologated. The page read gives no timetable for the day: the school has a separate section for it in the families' area, and that did not open from the container.
Address Avenida de Prado Boyal 28
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.
What the badge means for this school. The school has been through this organisation's accreditation. It was judged as a whole: governance, safeguarding, staff, premises, teaching. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it.
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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 school and its operator name 100 per cent passes in the French DNB and the baccalauréat, with more than 75 per cent of leavers gaining a distinction. In Cambridge English 95 per cent of first-year lycée pupils reach C1; the school runs a Cambridge examination centre and prepares pupils for DELF and DALF in French, DELE in Spanish and the PIX digital certification. Neither the school nor the operator specifies which years these shares are taken from.
Facilities from the school's official website
·Swimming poolnot stated on the website
·Sports hallnot stated on the website
·Laboratoriesnot stated on the website
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
·Librarynot stated on the website
✓Catering
✓School transport
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Campus: The school stands on the Avenida de Prado Boyal in Laguna de Duero, fifteen kilometres from Valladolid. It says little about the building: up-to-date equipment in every classroom and a virtual tour of the school. Its own canteen and school bus are named as separate services, each with its own page. The page read names neither sports facilities, nor a library, nor laboratories.
Clubs and activities: Art · Music and rhythmics · Theatre · Fencing · Emotional intelligence · Judo · Athletics · English · Programming · Homework help in French
Teaching staff
The school publishes neither the number of its teachers nor their qualifications.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
The school says nothing on its website about security, medical care or pupil support.
Reviews
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Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
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 data55 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data70 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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