There are five French-German secondary schools known in German as Deutsch-Französisches Gymnasium (DFG) and in French as lycée franco-allemand (LFA).

[6][7] In the spirit of post-war friendship and two years before the signing of the conciliatory Éysée Treaty between West Germany and France, the first DFG/LFA was established in Saarbrücken in 1961 as a cooperation between a French and a German school.

In 1972, an agreement signed between the two states formalised the DFG/LFA as a unified school form and introduced the French-German Baccalaureate.

[13] Students at DFG/LFA schools complete their education with the bilingual French-German Baccalaureate (deutsch-französisches Abitur / baccalauréat franco-allemand).

[7] The French-German Baccalaureate is different from and sometimes[20] confused with the AbiBac, a programme offered at regular French and German schools.

[21][22] The DFG/LFA Buc also offers the British track of the Baccalauréat Français International (BFI, formerly called OIB), in its Section Internationale Anglophone.

[25][26] In Strasbourg, the DFG/LFA was previously the German-speaking Section Internationale of the Lycée Vauban, leading to a French Baccalauréat with OIB German.

Regular French schools require their students to sit the Brevet diploma in 3e (troisième) (year 9) in order to finish collège.

Metz, the capital of the French Moselle border region, is a candidate for a sixth French-German School.