The first students of the International School of Differdange and Esch-sur-Alzette (EIDE) will obtain the European Baccalaureate at the end of the 2022/2023 school year.
The EIDE opened its doors in September 2016 aiming, according to the Luxembourg Ministry of Education, Children and Youth, to diversify the school offer in the Grand Duchy. The European Baccalaureate programmes and examinations are the same in all European schools, the ministry noted.
69 EIDE students took the European Baccalaureate exams in June 2023, with 68 students, or 98.6% having passed, including 35 girls and 33 boys. 27 among them followed the English section and 41 the French section.
Of the 69 students who took the exams: four started their journey in ACCU (reception) class, 41 completed their entire secondary education course at the EIDE, i.e. they started in S1 in 2016/2017, ten students joined the EIDE in S2, five in S3, three in S4, two in S5 and four in S6.
The final grade is composed of 50% of the grade for the year, 35% of the grades of the written exam and 15% of the oral exam grades.
The ministry described the success rate of 98.6% as a positive initial assessment of the public international school offer and considered this the “most important innovation of recent decades in terms of educational policy”.
