The high school hosts mainly students from Bourget, Dugny and Drancy.

However, the deputy and mayor of Drancy, Jean-Christophe Lagarde, was upset at the opening of the new high school Bourget, claiming the new school in Le Bourget would take nearly twice as less Drancy students than originally announced (650 instead of 1200).

[3] In 2016, the school authorities of Île-de-France renamed the Lycée du Bourget to Germaine Tillion.

Pass rates for Baccalauréat in 2017: The grounds on which the school building (formerly known as École normale) was built were renovated for a cost of EUR 28.51 million.

[3] The Germaine Tillion high school can be directly accessed by bus (RATP line 143, at École Normale bus stop) or by suburban train (RER line B, at Le Bourget rail station), .