The French minister of education, Jean-Michel Blanquer, announced the opening of the LFA Strasbourg at a French-German ministerial meeting on 25 January 2021. The French director of the other DFG / LFA in France,
at Buc near Paris, learned of the Strasbourg LFA on the same day. Students who wanted to join the LFA Strasbourg in the 2021–22 academic year had to sit an oral and written exam in German in March 2021. The school opened with the beginning of the school year of the on 2 September 2021. The LFA Strasbourg started with around 60 school beginners, among around 170 enrolled at the . The first Strasbourg students will graduate with the French-German Baccalaureate in 2029. Shortly after the opening, the
French education minister at the time,
Jean-Michel Blanquer, visited the school and said that his goal was to have more schools of this type in France.
Metz, the capital of the French Moselle border region, is a candidate for a sixth French-German School. == See also ==