A lycée Is an academic high school. If you go after junior or senior year you would enroll in ‘terminale’, and you would always have what the French consider core classes to be an educated citizen: philosophy, contemporary world history, issues in globalization, a foreign language taking from Spanish to Latin to Chinese, and English, at different levels depending on your 'filiere ’ (filiere = sorta pre-major.) Then your filiere would include advanced classes depending on your ‘filiere’ such as English or Spanish literature, comparative literature, lots of philosophy and history classes, art history (L for Letters), statistics and applied calculus, economics, labor relations, sociology, political thought (es for social science), or proof based calculus, statistics, intro to discrete math and linear algebra, physics 1, chemistry 2, geoscience, biology (s for stem), or easier academics for applied filieres such as st2s (public health : physics, biology, chemistry, anatomy & physiology) or stmg (management, business, business law, business math, HR or accounting). All of these filieres prepare for 4-year colleges, may carry college credits if you pass the baccalaureate exams in June, and do not jeopardize your freshman status.