14. French School Education Grants

1. 14.1. Return to School Grant
   14.2. Collège Grant
   14.3. Lycée Grants
   14.4. Lycée Merit Grants
   14.5. Adaptation (Disabled) Grants
   14.6. School Social Grants
   14.7. Local Council Grants

14.3. French Lycée Grants - Bourses de Lycée

Upper secondary school grants are called Bourses de Lycée.

There are five different grants available for children attending upper secondary school, available either when the child commences at lycée or during different stages of their course of studies.

The grants are also available to those attending an apprenticeship centre (CFA), provided they hold school pupil status.

The grants are only available on a means tested basis.

14.3.1. Basic Grant

A basic grant is payable, the amount of which depends on household income and family circumstances.

Perhaps more importantly, the award of the basic grant gives access to a range of other grants.

A complicated points system is used to assess each case, and the number of points awarded to a household corresponds to an income ceiling that determines eligibility to the grant.

The system cannot be readily summarised here, but you can assess your own possible entitlement to the grant at Assessment of Eligibility for Lycée Grant .

As with collège grants the reference period for assessment of your income is the two years prior to the date of application.

So, for the academic year 2008/9, it will be your income for 2006 as advised on your tax notice for 2007. It will be your revenu fiscal de référence for that year.

If you do not think you are eligible on the basis of your income in 2006, but that your circumstances have changed permanently and substantially since this date, then you should still make enquiries to the lycée about your eligibility.

Eligibility to the basic grant gives access to several other grants is summarised below. In all cases we await details of the grant level for 2008/9.

i. Prime d’entrée

This grant is payable at the start of the school year for each year at lycée.

The amount of the grant for 2007/8 is €217.

ii. Prime d’equipement

This grant is payable when the child enters lycée and is designed to meet the costs of purchasing certain items of equipment and materials for pupils undertaking certain specialist courses e.g. mechanics, fashion, industrial engineering.

The amount of the grant for 2007/8 is €341.

iii. Prime à la qualification

This grant is payable to those students at lycée undertaking the Certificat d’aptitude Professionnelle (CAP) or Brevet d’études Professionnelles (BEP).

The amount of the grant for 2007/8 is €435 payable in three instalments over the academic year.

iv. Prime à l’internat

This is a grant payable to students who are boarding to assist with boarding costs.

The amount of the grant for 2007/8 is €234 per year payable in three instalments over the academic year.

14.3.2. Application Procedure

To make an application, you can either download an application from or make enquiries direct to the lycée.