Lycée Guebre-Mariam


The Lycée Guébré-Mariam or Lycée franco-éthiopien Guébré-Mariam is a French international school in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It was established in 1947 and has integrated the Mission laïque française in 1947. It covers maternelle through terminale, the final year of lycée. It includes multilingual education in French, English and Amharic from preschool for all students., the school has about 1,800 students, ranging from 3 to 18 years.
The French government spends around €4 million every year on LGM, which comes out to about €2,500 per student.

Namesake

The school's name commemorates Dedjazmatch Guebre Mariam Gari, who was an anti-fascist resistance fighter during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War in 1935, when Italy invade Abyssinia. His name, Guebre Mariam, literally means “servant of Mary”.
The hyphen in the school's name is due to a French punctuation convention.

Alumni