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LFIM has operated for 50 years, offering high-quality French education with an international, multicultural, multilingual, and secular vision. Teaching is its passion, and it combines knowledge with universal humanist values within a personalized and family-like environment to ensure the well-being of its students. Throughout its schooling, students learn three languages: French, Spanish, and English.
LFIM describes its community as strongly united and committed to the success and well-being of its students. It forms a community with families that is deeply engaged in the students' welfare, promoting a calm, inclusive, tolerant, and respectful learning climate from a multicultural and multilingual perspective, addressing each student's needs and aspirations. The student body comprises learners aged 2 to 18 and about 20 nationalities; the languages of instruction are French and Spanish, with English as a third mandatory language. The student–teacher relationship is based on mutual respect and understanding arising from diversity and multiculturalism, and LFIM creates spaces for coexistence across generations to foster a sense of belonging, celebrating activities such as choirs, performances, sports events, markets, exhibitions, and bios markets.
Families are organized into two associations: APAELM (Association of Parents of LFIM students) and ALI Molière (Independent List Association). These associations inform, communicate, and provide the resources to carry out their work. Families participate actively in the school community and in decision-making that affects the school's future. The educational team maintains ongoing contact with families to monitor the progress of each student at all levels: academic, personal, and social. The School Council is the primary governance body for the primary school; it brings together representatives of primary parents, primary teachers, and the Administration; it meets three times a year and is consulted for advice on the functioning of the school and school life. The Center Council is the main governing body of the establishment and includes elected representatives from all members of the educational community (students, parents, staff), with the management team, the head of the diplomatic office, and the Secretary General of the MLF as ex officio members; consular advisers participate on a consultative basis.
LFIM is a French international day school affiliated with AEFE and Mission Laïque Française. It delivers the French national program to students from Crèche to Supérieur, with instruction in French, Spanish and English. English begins early and intensifies in secondary. The campus houses libraries, dedicated rooms for science, art and IT, a computer room, a music classroom and multipurpose space, plus Centre de Connaissances et de Culture (CCC) for culture and reading. Web radio studio and nurse's office support student life. Sports facilities include a gym, a multi-sport complex, a swimming pool, football and tennis pitches, and an athletics track; outdoor spaces feature an educational pond, gardens, a chicken coop and an amphitheatre. Aquatic activities use the municipal pool at the Santiago Apóstol complex. LFIM has operated for fifty years, emphasizing secular, humanist values in a warm, family-like environment and offering international exchanges and a program in three languages.
