← Back to homeLycée Français International de Reus Marguerite Yourcenar
Reus, Spain · est. 1988 · Private
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Lycée Français International de Reus Marguerite Yourcenar is a private secular French school on the road from Reus to Tarragona, in a quiet part of the town, with spacious outdoor areas. It began in 1988 as École Bon Soleil and now belongs to the Mission laïque française network and to AEFE, the system of French schools abroad, which approves all its stages. Children are taken from 3 years and led to the French baccalauréat: kindergarten, primary school, collège with the brevet diploma and lycée, where there is a European section with part of the subjects in English. The school itself calls itself a one-form-entry school, family-like, with personal attention to every pupil. The language of instruction is French, and from an early age English, Catalan and Spanish are added to it, hence the motto "four cultures, four languages, one future"; in French, English and Spanish pupils sit the DELF, the Cambridge PET, First and Advanced examinations and the DELE. Pupils and families here are of different nationalities. The school has declared itself a mobile-phone-free zone, in classrooms and at break, and received an award from the Jara Barceló foundation for digital awareness. In 2025 all 26 leavers passed the baccalauréat, 80 per cent with a bien or très bien distinction. The school does not publish its tuition fees on the site.
Key facts
Programmes
French programme
Admits from
3 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
French
Languages taught
Spanish, Catalan, English
Students
274 according to the AEFE register; the school itself calls itself a one-form-entry school
Admissions The school takes children from 3 years, and they do not need to know French: in its words, most kindergarten children speak French well by the first year of primary school, and parents who do not speak French are helped by digital platforms for revision at home. Its pupils and families are of different nationalities, and the school explains its membership of the network of French schools abroad as a convenience for families who move from country to country. For children of French citizens registered with the consulate general in Barcelona there are partial and full scholarships according to family income; applications are made in January and February, and by newly arrived pupils in August and September. The school publishes no enrolment procedure or list of documents: it invites families to book a visit or an open day through the form on the site, by telephone or by e-mail.
Stages and year groups Grades maternelle (3-5 years) - terminale. The stages run without a break: kindergarten for children of 3, 4 and 5 years, primary school from year 1 to year 5, collège from 6ème to 3ème with the brevet diploma at the end, and lycée - seconde, première and terminale with the French baccalauréat; the lycée has a European section where part of the programme is taught in English. The French ministry's approval, according to the AEFE register, covers all 15 stages. The school day in kindergarten and primary runs from 9:00 to 12:10 and from 14:20 to 16:20, in the collège from 9:00 to 13:00 and from 14:30 to 16:20, for some lycée pupils until 17:15. The school has one form of entry: one class per year.
Address Ctra. Tarragona, Pda. Rojals, IV, 22, 43206 Reus
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 In 2025, 100 per cent of the 26 leavers, of 8 nationalities, passed the French baccalauréat, 80 per cent with a bien or très bien distinction, some with the congratulations of the jury. The school's first graduating class also passed at 100 per cent, with 87,5 per cent bien and très bien distinctions. The school's operator gives a 96 per cent pass rate for the brevet.
Where leavers go: Sciences Po · Université Paris Sorbonne · Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Leavers, the school says, have studied in France, Switzerland, the USA, England, the Netherlands, in Valencia, Madrid and Barcelona, among them at Sciences Po, Université Paris Sorbonne, the Autonomous University of Barcelona and French schools of architecture. The French baccalauréat, the school points out, opens Spanish universities without an additional entrance examination. The lycée has a careers guidance service and holds a careers forum.
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
✓Library
✓Catering
✓School transport
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Campus: The school stands in a quiet part of Reus, on the road to Tarragona, and names spacious outdoor areas. The canteen has its own kitchen and a department that cooks for children with intolerances, allergies and special diets. School transport is listed in the section for families. The media library in the new building is described by the documentalists of the MLF network: 70 square metres, about 5000 documents in French, Spanish, English and Catalan, an area for the youngest and a reading room.
Clubs and activities: Theatre · Robotics · Dance · Basketball · Football · Volleyball · Chinese · Magic tricks · Chess
Teaching staff
The school publishes neither the number of its teachers nor their qualifications.
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 roomnot stated on the website
·Counsellornot stated on the website
·Child protection policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
✓Anti-bullying policy
The school bans mobile phones both in classrooms and at break and names the prevention of bullying as one of the aims outright. Pupils are taught to use the internet safely and to recognise phishing and cyberbullying; for this work the school received an award from the Jara Barceló foundation. The school names no security staff, no video surveillance, no medical worker, no psychologist 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 data60 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data75 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data78 Value for money (6%) scored at the median74 "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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