The LFLP offers quality education in line with the requirements of French National Education and is driven by humanist values: tolerance, freedom of thinking, equal opportunities, intellectual curiosity, critical thinking, equality between girls and boys … It welcomes students of all nationalities: French expatriates, nationals of host countries and third-party foreign countries. It makes this cultural diversity fruitful through innovative pedagogy and a spirit of openness, with particular emphasis on language learning. It is part of an international, dynamic and attractive network which develops particularly enriching joint educational projects. This membership in a vast global network enable children to follow a seamless education, from kindergarten to baccalaureate, from one school to another and from one country to another. Studying at the LFLP and obtaining the baccalaureate opens up particularly interesting prospects for higher education, in French or international universities

The French School of Lagos was founded in 1958 by the Association Française du Nigeria (AFN). Before the current school was built in 1987 with the help of the French Ministry of the Foreign Affairs, it has moved to several places, in Ikoyi, and in Victoria Island. Through an agreement signed in 1991 with the new AEFE (Agence pour l’Enseignement Français à l’Etranger), which is an agency of the French Ministry of the Foreign Affairs, the school is now linked with the French Authorities which give it a financial support to run.