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Lycée Peter Pan

French school in Madagascar

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 11, 2024
Entity authorityQ55621488
Source-derived summary

Lycée Peter Pan, formerly École Peter Pan, is a French international school in Manarintsoa, Ambohijanaka, Antananarivo, Madagascar. It serves preschool until the end of senior high school (lycée). As of 2018 it had 807 students, including 56 French students. The 5,600-square-metre (60,000 sq ft) campus is located in the Imerimanjaka area.

Its original location in Mahamasina opened in 1971. It closed due to management issues in 1976 and reopened in 1980. In 1993 the first high school graduates (recipients of the French baccalaureate) graduated. The land for the current campus was acquired in 2013, and the cornerstone of the current campus was laid on Friday 20 September of that year. The current campus opened on 8 May 2015.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Lycée Peter Pan” is french school in Madagascar. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Lycée, Peter and French, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2018, 1971, 1976, 1980—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Lycée, Peter and French is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “french school in Madagascar” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 11, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q55621488. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2018, 1971, 1976 and 1980.

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This entry incorporates text from Lycée Peter Pan” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.