As of 2016[update] the main campus, which is adjacent to Villa Marco, has about 1,300 students. This campus is 20 hectares (49 acres) large.[3]
The École française Pablo Picasso, an annex of the Lycée Français d'Alicante, is located in Benidorm.[4] It is inside the Finca Barrina - Norte complex.[5] But closed in 2018.
The school, which opened in 1962, was established by pied-noir people leaving Algeria.[3] In the aftermath of the Independence of Algeria large numbers of pied-noirs settled in Alicante,[6] leading to the establishment of the new French school.[7]
It was initially inside an apartment building on Calle San Vicente. Until 1965 the school occupied a building in Alicante. That year it moved to a different building in Vistahermosa [es], Alicante. In 1970 it moved again to Albufereta [es], Alicante.[3] Several pied-noirs had moved to Albufereta; 65 of them lived there in 1965. By 2001 French-speakers had a lot of influence in Albufereta and French was commonly spoken there.[8]
In 2005 the school moved into its current location in El Campello.[3]
^"Centros enseñanza." CCI FRANCE ESPAGNE. Retrieved on January 5, 2017. "École française de Benidorm (Anexo del Lycée français d’Alicante) Carretera de Callosa, 16 Finca Barrina - Norte, apt 2 03502 Benidorm "
^Kidd, William. "The Long Good-Bye: Pied Noir Re-Settlement in the Pyrénées-Orientales" (Chapter 2). In: Gemie, Sharif and Scott Soo (editors). Coming Home? Vol. 2: Conflict and Postcolonial Return Migration in the Context of France and North Africa, 1962-2009, Volume 2 (EBSCO ebook academic collection). Cambridge Scholars Publishing, July 18, 2014. ISBN1443864161, 9781443864169. Start: 33. CITED: p. 38.
^Kidd, William. "The Long Good-Bye: Pied Noir Re-Settlement in the Pyrénées-Orientales" (Chapter 2). In: Gemie, Sharif and Scott Soo (editors). Coming Home? Vol. 2: Conflict and Postcolonial Return Migration in the Context of France and North Africa, 1962-2009, Volume 2 (EBSCO ebook academic collection). Cambridge Scholars Publishing, July 18, 2014. ISBN1443864161, 9781443864169. Start: 33. CITED: p. 49. (See footnote 34 which refers to page 38)
