Can you change your track or specialty at high school?

Verified 11 April 2024 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)

Yes, a high school student can change lane, i.e. reorienting itself from the general and technological route to the professional one (or vice versa).

A high school student may also change specialty baccalaureate or diploma specialty (issued by vocational high schools).

Track

You can, subject to conditions, reorient yourself to the general and technological path or to the professional path.

The procedures for changing the course of training differ from one academy to another.

Any plans for a change of direction should be discussed with the teaching team, in particular with the head teacher and the National Education psychologist.

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Who shall I contact

In considering your request for a lane change, the following criteria are considered:

  • Your Orientation Project
  • Your level of education
  • The number of places available

Your institution will assist you in your lane change.

In particular, the manager can offer you to attend a bridge training. You can do this internship during school holidays or during the year.

Warning  

If you are a senior, the internship will have to take place as soon as the holidays of Toussaint for a change of direction as early as possible in the year.

During this course, you can notably integrate a class of the envisaged path.

You develop the content, duration and form of the internship with the pedagogical team and the psychologist of National Education.

This information is communicated to your parents.

Specialty

If you are a first or senior citizen, you can, subject to conditions, change your baccalaureate or diploma specialty (issued by professional high schools).

Any plans for a change of direction should be discussed with the teaching team, in particular with the head teacher and the National Education psychologist.

The application procedure varies depending on whether or not the reorientation involves a change of school.

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In the same establishment

Your family must send a written request to the head teacher.

The head of the establishment has 1 month to answer you.

He makes his decision after consulting the teaching team.

In another facility

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The latter takes a decision after receiving the opinion of the head of the host institution.

Who shall I contact

In considering your application for a change of specialty, the following criteria are taken into consideration:

  • Your Orientation Project
  • Your level of education
  • The number of places available

Your establishment accompanies you in your change of specialty.

In particular, the manager can offer you to attend a bridge training.

You can do this internship during school holidays or during the year.

Warning  

If you are a senior, the internship will have to take place as soon as the holidays of Toussaint for a change of direction as early as possible in the year.

During this course, you can notably integrate a class of the envisaged specialty.

You develop the content, duration and form of the internship with the pedagogical team and the psychologist of National Education.

This information is communicated to your parents.

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