Marie Curie High School

Marie Curie High School (French: Lycée Marie Curie, Vietnamese: Trường Trung học Phổ thông Marie Curie) is a public high school in District 3, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Established in 1918 and named after the Nobel prize-winning scientist Marie Curie by the French colonial government, it remains the sole high school in Saigon that still bears its original name.

Founded in 1918 as a private all-girls school, it began accepting boys in 1970. All courses were taught in French until the French instructors were sent home to France after the Vietnam War ended in 1975, at which time the school became bilingual (Vietnamese and French). In 1997, the school was turned into a semi-public high school, and in 2007, it became a public high school. In the 1990s, it was one of the largest high schools in Vietnam, with around 5,000 students in regular attendance; however, enrollment has dropped to about 3,500 students (2025) since the school shifted its focus to providing a higher quality education. Over the past two decades, the school has participated in and been the subject of multiple research studies and projects.