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Secondary education institutions are numerous and include vocational and language schools.

The " elite " secondary language schools provide education in a selected foreign language.

These include Sofia High School of Mathematics, 91st German Language School, 164th Spanish Language School, First English Language School, and 9th French Language School.

Some of them provide a language certificate upon graduation, while the 9th French Language School has exchange programs with a number of lycées in France and Switzerland, such as the Parisian Collège-lycée Jacques-Decour.

Zlatarski International School from 2003, became the first school in Bulgaria to offer the International Baccalaureate.

The American College of Sofia was founded in 1860 and often regarded as the oldest American academic institution outside the United States.