Established in 1998 as a joint project between the Lycée Franco-Allemand (LFA) and the Collège Martin Luther King (MLK) and granted official status as an International Section in 2006, the Section Internationale Anglophone de Buc is based on a wooded campus south-west of Paris and close to Versailles.
Located in the Collège Martin Luther King, the program opened with seven students and has grown to include more than 80 participants from around the world in 2009.
The Section Internationale Anglophone was extended to the high school level in 2005, providing classes from 2nde through to Terminale (years 11 – upper 6th UK / grades 10 – 12 US).
The primary section aims to offer English-French bilingual education from an early age in CM1 and CM2 (years 5 and 6 UK/grades 4 and 5 USA) and to prepare students for entry into the Collège Martin Luther King.
There is an entrance test of students’ abilities in English, primarily based on oral expression and listening comprehension.