École des Arches is a private day school at Rue Pépinet in central Lausanne, founded in 1985. It runs a continuous route from early childhood through to the Swiss Maturité, which can also be taken as a one-year intensive programme. Alongside the academic route it trains for federal vocational certificates in information technology, as a CFC informaticien or CFC opérateur en informatique, and runs an IT pre-apprenticeship. The school is independent and keeps classes small.