Lycée classique de Diekirch

Name

Lycée classique de Diekirch

Legal name

Lycée classique de Diekirch

Website

https://lcd.lu

Company type

Private

Founded year

1830

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Diekirch

HQ country

Luxembourg

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Public Education Funding: As a public secondary school in Luxembourg, LCD operates under government funding. Education is provided free of tuition fees to students. Revenue comes from Ministry of Education allocations and public budget.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Lycée classique de Diekirch delivers public classical secondary education (Enseignement Secondaire Classique) covering classes from 7e through 1ère, with multilingual instruction in Luxembourgish, German, French, and English. The school also offers a higher education BTS Media Writing program, welcome/integration classes for newly arrived students, the ESEB enrichment track, a music track (voie musicale), and evening courses for adults. Specialised facilities include the Computarium computing museum, meteoLCD weather station, Makerspace, library, sport section, and multimedia center.

Product overview

Lycée classique de Diekirch operates a main institutional website (lcd.lu) with several sub-sites for specialized programs. The core offering is secondary classical education, supplemented by the BTS Media Writing higher education program for media and journalism. The school maintains specialized facilities including the Computarium (historic computing museum), meteoLCD (professional weather station), a Makerspace for digital creation, library services, and extensive sports facilities. The institution has invested in professional-grade multimedia infrastructure for the Media Writing program and connects with external platforms including SchoolFox for communications, MyGuichet for government enrollment, and Adobe Creative Cloud for media production.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• BTS Media Writing: Higher technical certificate program in media writing, a 2-year higher education program training students in journalism, communication, and audiovisual production in Luxembourgish, German, French and English.
• Sport LCD

Products and services

• Enseignement Secondaire Classique (ESC)
• Classes d'accueil (Welcome / Integration Classes)
• ESEB Program
• Voie musicale (Music Track)
• BTS Media Writing
• Cours du soir (Evening Courses)

Quantifiable outcome

• 69 scientific publications produced by meteoLCD station
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration7 records

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Centre pour la langue luxembourgeoise (ZLS)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for the second part of Luxembourgish language courses in BTS Media Writing program. This is an unprecedented partnership at the higher education level, providing students with specialized language instruction from the national language institute.
• Centre pour enfants et jeunes à haut potentiel (CEJHP)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration with specialists for students requiring specific support beyond school resources. LCD maintains excellent contacts with CEJHP for gifted student identification and referral.
• Luxembourgish Media Industry PartnerscoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerExternal media professionals from Luxembourg's media sector teach BTS Media Writing courses, including professionals from RTL, Lëtzebuerger Journal, Agence binsfeld, and NOTA BENE editorial office. Students benefit from industry insights and connections.
• AALCD (Association des Anciens du LCD)coreOthersAlumni association that supports the school and its programs including the Computarium collection.
• Institut d'Aéronomie Spatiale de BelgiqueminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration on UV index mapping data. meteoLCD's UVB measurements integrated into the BIRA-IASB UV index map.
• LASEL (Luxembourg School Sports Federation)coreOthersSchool sports competitions organized through LASEL, with LCD actively participating in championships across multiple sports disciplines.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves1 record

Direct peers

• Lycée Aline Mayrisch: Public Luxembourg secondary school delivering classical and general tracks with multilingual curriculum; serves as a same-system peer for student catchment and program benchmarking.
• Ecole de Commerce et de Gestion (ECG): Public business and management school in Luxembourg offering BTS programs; directly comparable to LCD's BTS Media Writing as another higher-education BTS pathway under the Luxembourg public education system.
• Lycée Michel-Rodange: Public classical secondary school in Luxembourg City under the same ministry framework; comparable in offering ESC tracks and language-intensive quadrilingual instruction.
• Lycée Edward Steichen: Newer public secondary school in Clervaux (northern Luxembourg), sharing catchment geography and ESC classical education mandate with LCD; closest geographic peer.
• Lycée technique de Bonnevoie: Public technical secondary school in Luxembourg City offering BTS-level programs (including media-related BTS tracks), serving as a same-system peer for vocational pathways comparable to LCD's BTS Media Writing.
• Athénée de Luxembourg: Public secondary school in Luxembourg City offering classical education (ESC) and comparable sections to LCD; operates under the same Ministry of Education with similar quadrilingual pedagogy and university-prep mission.

Broad incumbents

• International School of Luxembourg: Private international school offering English-language secondary education with IB curriculum; competes for the same affluent international-family segment that LCD's classical track targets in Luxembourg.
• University of Luxembourg: National public university where LCD's BTS graduates frequently continue studies; represents both an upstream pipeline and a downstream competitor for higher education credentials in Luxembourg.

Emerging players

• École Européenne de Luxembourg: Public European School offering multilingual secondary education with a different pedagogical model (European baccalaureate); competes for internationally-mobile families and provides an alternative credential pathway in Luxembourg.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/lcdiekirch
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/school/lcd-company

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles18 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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