Based in Dubai Academic City, Lycee Georges Pompidou High School serves the French speaking community within the UAE. It is one of two secondary schools in Dubai offering a French curriculum, the other being Lycee Libanais Francophone Prive. Classes are conducted en Francaise.

The school currently serves 1917 students, boys and girls, aged from 6 to 18. The school has its own feeder KG school, Lycee Georges Pompidou Ecole Primaire Dubai, which takes pupils from 3 years of age to 6.

Both the Primary, and now the secondary are rated Outstanding schools by the KHDA, Dubai’s education regulator. It is the first year the post-primary school has achieved the top grade in the UAE, but the second time its junior pre-school, taking children from 3 years of age to 6, has achieved top rating.

According to its report this is a school achieving outstanding attainment and progress in English, French, mathematics and sciencein all phases. Teaching is also said to be Outstanding across all phases.

Students display “excellent linguistic skills”, with the majority able to speak three languages fluently. Students are also said to display outstanding personal development, “reflected in excellent attendance and punctuality”.

Finally leaders at all levels share an exceptionally clear strategic direction focused on providing the very best learning outcomes and personal development for all students. In earlier reports, inspectors had noted the “resolute” leadership of the school in driving it forward.

A total of 82 students have been identified as having special educational needs and half of the students have French as an additional language and there were 231 Arabic first language learners.

The school follows the French Ministry of Education curriculum. Students take the Diplôme National du Brevet at the end of the troisième (Grade 10) and the Baccalauréat in terminale (Grade 12). The majority of teaching staff are French nationals with relevant teaching qualifications for the age range they teach. The school has a teacher turnover running at just 2% – this is so low as to be almost unheard of in the UAE. The school has 141 teachers in total.