Lycée Buffon

It is a "cité scolaire" made up of a collège, a lycée and scientific classes préparatoires.

It has 2 000 students,[1] served by 170 professors, 4 "conseillers principaux d'éducation" and 50 other teaching personnel.

It also houses an adult education centre for those taking the BTS and the Licence des métiers de l'immobilier, and a UPI, the only one in Paris for the visually impaired.

The young visually impaired students can then integrate into classical education.

The religious scholar Odon Vallet studied here, and its teachers have included the philosopher and journalist Maurice Clavel, the theatre critic and historian Gilles Sandié, and the writer and cineaste Jean Pelgri.

One of the school's eight towers.