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Jun 19, 2024 · The Lycée Averroès was ranked France’s top high school in 2013 and last year had a 95% baccalaureate pass rate. Photography for Hyphen by Ed Alcock /MYOP.
Mar 29, 2013 · Averroès High School’s top ranking has raised eyebrows across France in part because it’s a private Muslim school that has been providing quality education to its students.
- History
- Mission, Curriculum, and Religious Character
- Contract and Budget
- Student Selection and Demographics
- Teachers
- Extra-Curricular Activities and Field Trips
- Success
- Controversy
- Arabic
- Religion
The genesis for this high school is clearly stated on the website. After the 1994 exclusion of about twenty veiled girls from the Faidherbe high school, at the height of the second moment in the affair of the scarf, the Islamic League of the North, a local association founded in 1983, took charge of their education by registering them for distance ...
The curriculum follows the national curriculum, it also includes Arabic language and an optional Muslim Ethics course. According to the principal, Averroès will not expand beyond middle and high school, because they prefer to consolidate what they have done so far. They have four classes per grade at the middle school, and five per grade at the hig...
Averroès signed a contract with the state in 2008, five years after its opening. In an interview with a newspaper, the director of the school is quoted as saying that it was not easy to get the contract, because the Rectorat did not want to take the decision. In the end, the Ministry of Education gave the agreement (cited in Mahuzier). This is an e...
Students are selected based on an application that includes the following: grades, behavior, and an interview with parents to make sure that they support the school’s project: their view of Islam in society, the role of education (for instance supporting girls’ careers), co-ed, no restrictions in the subjects studied. They end up having more girls ...
The school is able to select the teachers that are under contract with the state, and while most of the teachers are Muslim, they have at least 6 or 7 who are not. There are about 80 teachers at Averroes; they have an association to do things such as buy a coffee machine, help teachers with the national exams, and give input on life at school. One ...
There are miscellaneous activities, including lectures by scholars of Islam and interfaith dialog, workshops about higher education tracks, and other topics such as the media offered by a former editor of Le Monde, and one week of humanitarian solidarity awareness. Religious events seem to be a minority (mawlid celebration in January 2014, iftaror ...
An important measure of Averroès’ success is to have been named best high school in France in 2013, a mere ten years after its opening, ahead of traditional power houses such as Lycées Louis Legrand and Henri IV (the Ivy League of French high schools). Every year, the Ministry of Education releases data about the success of students at the national...
Averroès made national headlines again in 2016, but this time, it was not great news: its philosophy teacher, Sofiane Zitouni, resigned after teaching for five months only in a very public way by publishing an op-ed in one of the national newspapers, accusing the school of harassment (after he published a piece stating that “The Prophet is also Cha...
Arabic is offered as first (LVI), second (LVII), and third (LVIII) foreign language. Students do not have to study Arabic in the high school, where it is offered as a foreign language like all others. It is compulsory in 6th and 7th grade only, and that year, only 18 students chose to pursue Arabic beyond 7th grade, which was a surprisingly low num...
A report published in 2010 explains that Hassan Iquioussen, member of the UOIF and founder of an association under its umbrella, Muslim Youth of France (Jeunes musulmans de France), was first tasked with the religious ethics class. When the current director started, he replaced Iquioussen because of a lack of curriculum and frequent absences in 200...
- Carine Bourget
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- 2019
Jun 5, 2024 · Four parents and three academics Reuters spoke to for this story said the campaign risks being counterproductive, alienating Muslims who want their children to succeed within the French system,...
Dec 11, 2023 · Private school Averroes, the first Muslim high school to open in mainland France in 2003 in the northern city of Lille, has more than 800 pupils and has been under contract with the state...
Dec 14, 2023 · PARIS -- Opened 20 years ago and voted best high school in France in 2013, with baccalaureate success rates between 97% and 100% each year, the Averroès school group in Lille, which is also the largest private Muslim secondary school in France, is threatened with closure.
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Mar 31, 2013 · Averroès High School in Lille is France's first private Muslim school. Unlike other high schools in France, where the majority of students are loath to take their classes seriously, students in...
