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According to police, it was a history teacher who recently showed students cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
Prosecutors consider the attack, which continues in the writing of the authors of the bloody 2015 attack on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, to be a terrorist incident.
Charlie Hebdo angered many Muslims around the world by publishing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
A few weeks earlier, another attacker in an earlier issue of the publication in Paris injured two people who he believed worked there.
Friday’s incident occurred around 5 p.m. local time (6 p.m. Lithuanian) near the school in the western suburb of the French capital, Konflan Saint Honorine.
Police arrived at the scene after receiving a report of a suspicious person hacking near the school, a police source said.
There, officers found a dead man and, some 200 meters away, saw a suspect armed with a knife-like object. That person threatened the police.
The assailant, who was shot by the police, died of injuries sustained when the police shot him, a judicial source said.
The incident was fenced off, a demining unit was dispatched on suspicion of an explosive belt there, a source said.
Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin, after speaking with Prime Minister Jean Castex and President Emmanuel Macron, immediately ended his visit to Morocco and will return to Paris, his office said.
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