New school building creates space for 500 pupils
The Lycée Français de Zurich has laid the foundation stone for a new building. The expansion of the public school in Dübendorf is being managed by the Zurich branch of HRS and financed by Zürcher Kantonalbank.
The Lycée Français de Zurich has celebrated the laying of the foundation stone for a new building. The planned extension will create space for around 500 new pupils, the public school from Dübendorf announced in a press release. The Lycée Français currently has around 1130 pupils.
The expansion is being managed by the Zurich branch of HRS from Frauenfeld and financed by Zürcher Kantonalbank. The construction work should be completed by the start of the 2026 school year. In the same year, the Lycée Français de Zurich looks back on 70 years of history.
The Lycée Français de Zurich is run by parents and is recognised by the Canton of Zurich’s Department of Education. At the public school, children aged 3 to 10 receive bilingual tuition in German and French. They can then go on to specialise in German and English in an international branch and take the trilingual international French baccalaureate at the end of their schooling.
Marion Paradas, Ambassador of France to Switzerland and Liechtenstein, Marc Ferracci, Member of the French Parliament in Switzerland and Minister of the French Government, and Susanne Hänni, President of the primary school and Councillor of the municipality of Dübendorf, were among those present at the laying of the foundation stone.
The ceremony to mark the opening of the construction work included the preparation of a time capsule to be placed in the foundations of the building. The time capsule was filled with documents about the construction of the building, daily newspapers and the school’s yearbook.