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In the French schooling system, 'le collège' is Junior high school. You leave by age 15 / 16 and you take before that 'le brevet des collèges'. At the end of senior high school ('le lycée'), you take 'le baccalauréat / le bac', which is the French equivalent of the SAT.
French kids have to start school at age 6. Most of them already to kindergarten (called l'école maternelle : 'the motherly school') starting at age between 2 and 3.
Yes, French people attend school from a young age until they complete their education, typically around the age of 18. Education is compulsory in France between the ages of 6 and 16.
you can leave school at 16
it depends on how well yu do in high school, some people don't leave high school until 19 or 20 because they got held back 1 or 2 years back then. But most people do leave their homes at 18!
they went to college, so they probably left at 18
He started at 5 years of age like most French people.
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