Lycée Français de Madrid

It was established in an apartment on Calle Santa Isabel in 1885, with 50 students. It previously occupied a campus on Calle Marqués de la Ensenada.^[5]

In 1980 the Spanish journalist and writer Enrique Meneses wrote a letter to the editor to El País urging for the school to be saved after an announcement came stating that the school may close due to financial difficulties. ^[6]

The school celebrated its 125th anniversary in 2011.^[7]

As of 2009 there were 290 teachers and 100 other employees. The French government provides salaries for the teachers.^[5]

As of 2009 base tuition was 800 euros per student along with course fees which ranged from 3,700 euros to 4,200 euros per student.^[5]

The Conde de Orgaz campus was designed by Spanish architect Alfredo Rodriguez Orgaz and two French architects, Pierre Sonrel and Jean Duthilleul.^[8] The Conde de Orgaz campus has five libraries, a theatre, athletic facilities, and computer rooms.^[5]

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As of 2009 about half of the school's 3,945 students were Spanish and about half came from France and other Francophone countries.^[5]

In 2012 the Conde de Orgaz campus had 3,500 students.^[9]

As of 2009 the alumni association has over 500 members.^[5]

The LFM rugby team was established in 1968 by the efforts of Luis Abad "Luison".^[10] As of 2012 it was the most common sport among Conde de Orgaz campus students due to rugby's role in the French school curriculum.^[9]

The alumni include actors, economists, and politicians.^[2]

• Hiba Abouk - Spanish actress^[11]
• José Luis Álvarez - Spanish politician^[6]
• Hugues Aufray - French singer^[12][6]
• Miguel Bosé - Spanish musician and actor
• Prince Louis, Duke of Anjou - Legitimist claimant to the French throne
• Miguel Ángel Moratinos - Spanish politician
• Raimundo Saporta - Spanish basketball administrator^[13][6]
• Ramón Tamames - Spanish politician and economist^[14][6]
• Tristán Ulloa - Spanish actor^[2]
• Antonio Vega (singer) - Spanish songwriter, singer and composer
• Enzo Zidane - French-Spanish football player and son of former French international player Zinedine Zidane
• Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou - Mauritanian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Harvard Scholar and political historian

• Institut français de Madrid [fr]
• Liceo Español Luis Buñuel, a Spanish international school near Paris, France