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The Lycée Français de Madrid traces its origins to 1884 with the Collège de la Société Française de Bienfaisance, located on Rue Marqués de la Ensenada, where the Cultural Service, the French Consulate, and the Institut Français are today. It closed during the Spanish Civil War and reopened in October 1939. Enrollment grew from 253 students in 1923 to 890 in 1939, 1,065 in 1940, 1,600 in 1943, and 2,200 in 1964. Because the Marqués de la Ensenada site could not be expanded, the lycée moved to Conde de Orgaz Park for the 1969–70 school year, with a modernist layout linking multiple pavilions and open spaces including a circular building for the auditorium and refectories. A new nursery building was added in 1985, Saint-Exupéry in Moraleja became an annex in 1998, and after reaching nearly 4,000 students at Conde de Orgaz, the counts stood at about 3,468 there and 248 at Saint-Exupéry, making the Lycée the largest school in the French network abroad.
Community life at LFM Madrid includes a range of campus events and cultural activities for families. On January 24, 2026, the elementary mediatheque opened during Nuit de la Lecture, drawing about 100 attendees and recording around 100 loans, with a Cities and Countryside book selection and an exhibition from L'École des loisirs. The school participates in the Week of the French Lycées du Monde, with the 2025 edition focusing on AI and cross‑disciplinary projects. Kindergarten celebrated Day of the Dead with Mariachi performances and a memorial event for victims of attacks at the École, and there were open-house days for prospective families on November 15 (Moraleja) and November 29 (Conde de Orgaz).
APA and APE La Moraleja are the two main parent associations at LFM Madrid. They participate in the Conseil d'Établissement and in school governance alongside staff and student representatives. Minutes from 2025 show declarations from APA and APE La Moraleja at establishment meetings. The La Moraleja campus has its own parent association (APE La Moraleja), while the Conde de Orgaz campus is represented through APA. Parent associations coordinate with school leadership to organize and support school activities and parent participation.
Located on two campuses, Conde de Orgaz in Madrid and La Moraleja in Alcobendas, the Lycée Français de Madrid is a French national school within the AEFE network, welcoming pupils from ages 2 to 18. It delivers the French curriculum with living-language options in English, German and Spanish; English is taught in the Primary Department, while the second language program includes German with mobility experiences such as Strasbourg. An English-language strand, Anglais Monde Contemporain, and a DNL-SES in English support language immersion across primary and secondary levels. The school operates on a 10-hectare site at Conde de Orgaz and Moraleja, each with facilities, mediathèques and theatres, plus sports facilities. Since 2013 the school has pursued sustainability initiatives. A program includes Labo et Club de Maths, Sciences et Technologie projects, and LFM Radio, as well as arts activities like Musique and Théâtre, plus cross-European projects such as EUROmad and Projet Niger.
