Lycée Français d'Alicante

Lycée Français d'Alicante Pierre Deschamps () (LFA; Spanish: Liceo Francés de Alicante) is a French international school in El Campello, Alicante Province, Spain. It serves maternelle/educación infantil (preschool) through lycée/bachillerato.

As of 2016^[update] the main campus, which is adjacent to Villa Marco, has about 1,300 students. This campus is 20 hectares (49 acres) large.

The École française Pablo-Picasso, an annex of the Lycée Français d'Alicante, is located in Benidorm.

The school, which opened in 1962, was established by pied-noir people leaving Algeria. In the aftermath of the Independence of Algeria large numbers of pied-noirs settled in Alicante, leading to the establishment of the new French school.

It was initially inside an apartment building on Calle San Vicente. Until 1965 the school occupied a building in Alicante. That year it moved to a different building in Vistahermosa (), Alicante. In 1970 it moved again to Albufereta (), Alicante. Several pied-noirs had moved to Albufereta; 65 of them lived there in 1965. By 2001 French-speakers had a lot of influence in Albufereta and French was commonly spoken there.

In 2005 the school moved into its current location in El Campello.

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