Lycee International de Los Angeles

The application deadline for pre-elementary programs (preschool, Pre-K, and Kindergarten) is November 30. Applications received after this date will be considered according to space availability. Applicants are required to submit a completed application form and a Teacher's Reference Report, if applicable. Interviews are held in early January. Children are seen individually or in small groups by our Learning Support Specialist while parents meet with the Campus Director. Letters of acceptance are sent out via email in March.
1st through 12th Grade Admissions: Students coming from public or private French schools formally recognized by the French Ministry of National Education are admitted at the level stated by the previous school, based on the official 'bulletins scolaires' submitted with the application. Students coming from private schools or from overseas schools not recognized by the French Ministry of National Education will be admitted upon assessment. Sufficient fluency in spoken and written French is necessary. Students are required to submit a completed application form, report cards/transcripts, and standardized tests from the previous three years.

French Theatre, Model UN, Writing Club.

LILA is an international, preschool through 12th-grade school committed to academic excellence in a nurturing and intimate environment that encourages personal initiative, creativity and curiosity. Students are challenged through the rigorous and well-balanced bilingual curricula of the French and International Baccalaureate institutions. Our goal is to develop confident, caring, and open-minded critical thinkers who will thrive in a diverse competitive world.

LILA's core values are:
• First and foremost, academic excellence
• Collaboration, communication and community
• Commitment to the curriculum
• Utmost respect for all individuals within the school community
• Cultural diversity
• Intellectual curiosity and open-mindedness

At LILA we adopt ways of thinking and expression that reflect an appreciation for cultural differences and multiple world views. Diverse groups learn more from each other when exchanging different points of view, introducing new pieces of information, and confronting alternative ideas. LILA's small and nurturing classes facilitate the sharing of different viewpoints.
Being immersed in a truly multicultural environment helps develop the ability to better understand one's own culture - what makes it different, but also in which ways it is similar. This, in turn, helps maintain a strong sense of one's own background. 
Teachers, staff and students come from all over the world, each bringing their own experiences and perspectives. 
Our students study and live in a world community every day.

LILA was established in 1978 by visionaries of varied cultural backgrounds who felt that the Los Angeles community needed a school which would prepare children for life in an increasingly international environment. Because the majority of the founders had French backgrounds, they chose the proven French educational system as the foundation for LILA's curriculum. Since its inception LILA has continually evolved. We've grown out of the very first campus - a small house in Van Nuys with seven students - to five formal campuses with over 1,000 students. LILA has earned an esteemed reputation with the placement of graduates in top universities all over the world.

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