High school students are increasingly making their voices heard in the pre-campaign for the 2027 presidential election, criticizing overcrowded classrooms, packed schedules, and outdated school facilities. They see these issues as clear signs of the insufficient funding allocated to the National Education system. This topic is expected to be a key point of discussion during the debates leading up to the Elysée, the French presidency. Marine Le Pen, the president of the National Rally group in the Assembly, attended the Lycée Florent-Schmitt in Saint-Cloud, which was later renamed Lycée Alexandre-Dumas due to the Nazi sympathies of its founder, Florent Schmitt, uncovered in the late 1990s. The Le Pen family, including Marine, went through this school. She earned her baccalaureate in 1986 after retaking some exams. According to L’Étudiant, the school has a 94% pass rate for the baccalaureate, with 58% of students receiving a mention, which is a higher grade. Yannick Jadot, the leader of the Ecologists, attended the Lycée Polyvalent Saint-Paul in Lens, a private Catholic school, where she obtained her baccalaureate ES (economic and social) in 2000. The school's tuition for externs (students not living at the school) is 990 euros per year. According to L’Étudiant, the school has a 100% pass rate for the baccalaureate, with 82% of students receiving a mention, significantly higher than the national average of 67.6%. It ranks 135th in the national annual ranking by Le Figaro. François Bayrou, the president of the Horizons party and mayor of Le Havre, started his secondary education at the Lycée des Bruyères in Sotteville-lès-Rouen before moving to Germany, where he earned his baccalaureate in 1988 at the French school in Bonn. His father was the director of that school. According to the ministry's website, the French education network abroad has a 98.3% pass rate and 82.6% mention rate, though no specific data is provided for international schools teaching in French.