The lycée offers a choice of options around artistic specialities (music, theatre, plastic arts, ancient languages - Latic and Greek), sciences, and economics.

Since 2013, the college also accepts students studying with CHAM (classes combined with music) in partnership with the conservatoire Maurice Ravel (Paris 13th).

The lycée was built in 1955 by the architect Roger Séassal, grand Prix de Rome.

[2] Gabriel Fauré eventually had a lycée nearby named after him, at 81, avenue de Choisy.

[3] The ranking was based on three criteria: the results of the bac, the proportion of students who obtain the baccalauréat having completed their final two years of schooling at the establishment, and the value added (calculated from the social background of students, their age, and their results in the national diploma).

[3] The national rankings of preparatory classes in major schools (CPGE) which measures the entry levels of students to the grandes écoles.In 2016, L'Étudiant gave the following rankings: (0/35) (1/34) (1/35) (1/34) (6/35) (2/34) Neoma (Reims + Rouen), Toulouse Business School, Kedge (Bordeaux + Marseille) (23/35) (17/34) Prépas literary option, science, literature, humanities (1/59) (0/59) (1/66) (4/79) (1/46) (1/59) (0/59) (4/66) (5/79) (2/46) (7/59) (11/59) (8/66) (12/79) (8/46) An annex to the lycée Claude-Monet is located in the Georges-Heuyer clinic (a French-language student healthcare institution).