[5][6] For the final three years, students choose between literary, social, and natural science branches (L, ES and S) as is usual in French lycées.

[7] In 2017, on the occasion of the Treaty of Rome's 60th anniversary, the school's student representatives published a pro-European opinion piece saying "don't mess with the European Union".

It stands on the former site of the municipal plant nursery, which moved to the Mundenhof in the west of Freiburg in the early 1970s.

[11] The roofs of the old and new building are equipped with photovoltaic solar panels with a combined nominal power of 55 kWp.

[10]:47 Around 100 students live across the French border in Alsace and attend school using a bus organised by parents.