With the reform of the assignment in the Lycées de Paris, started in 2021, the physiognomy of the 2D classes has changed. Student profiles have diversified in many establishments but challenges remain.
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In Paris as elsewhere, in front of the gate of playgrounds or in dinners with friends, we evoke with tunes heard the reputation of educational establishments. This is the case with Voltaire, majestic high school of 11 e arrondissement long shunned by the good students in the northeast of Paris, despite its size stones and its plane-planted courses.
And then, in 2021, the Affelnet reform arrived. Students of 3 e northeast of the capital, like all other Parisians, found themselves “arrowed” on only five local high schools, instead of the huge northeast quarter in Which they had the right to apply so far-we found the Sophie-Germain, Charlemagne and Victor-Hugo high schools, “level high schools” of 4 e district reserved then, by pressure from Applications, to a small school elite.
The daughter of Sandrine Mercier, from the Couperin College (4 e arrondissement), was one of those who found themselves, “in the last choice”, at the Lycée Voltaire at the start of the school year. Six months later, her daughter “was completely fulfilled, and she became a motor in her class when she was rather reserved before”. Her excellent academic results – she was rather in the middle of the group in 3 e – gave her self -confidence. “Many students from the colleges in the center arrived at home, confirms Françoise Agnot, president of the FCPE of the Lycée Voltaire. They very quickly changed the image of our high school in their original neighborhoods, so that others ask to come. “In one year, the school went from 558 requests on the first three wishes to 800.
awareness
“Families ask in their first wishes high schools that they did not ask before,” said Claire Mazeron, academic director of National Education Services (Dasen). Conversely, the most requested establishments in the center saw the pressure of candidates refuse: out of 504 requests first vow in 2021, the Charlemagne high school – emblematic of the phenomenon of level high schools – fell to the first 297 choices in 2022.
Among the explanations, a better “handling” of the reform by the parents and especially the students, who “inquire, look at the specialties, ask advice from the friends already in the school”, details Ghislaine Morvan-Dubois , from FCPE Paris. In question, too, Parcoursup and the awareness of the “limits” of elite high schools. “Families have changed their strategy. They now tell us that it is better to be first in Voltaire than last in Charlemagne,” sums up Claire Mazeron.
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