International School Of Los Angeles - Los Feliz

We cannot say enough good things about LILA! Our daughter surprises us everyday with new knowledge of the French culture and language as well as advancing in her English studies all at the same time. Most importantly though is her happiness to be at LILA! I go to pick her up at school and she doesn't want to leave making it very difficult to exit the campus quickly. We love everything about the school and cannot imagine another learning environment for our daughter.

Every day, my daughter comes home and says she had a GREAT day at school. That is music to my ears. As a parent, I am beyond thrilled with the community of teachers, other families and administrators. It is a very welcoming environment. And, I am consistently impressed by the curriculum and skilled teachers. We were seeking a bilingual education in Los Angeles and I feel like we struck gold with LILA. It's a perfect balance of multiculturalism, beautiful environment for learning, academics and extra curricular.

LILA- Lycee International de Los Angeles- has been an amazing educational experience for my 4 year old son in the Pre-K program, and I look forward to many years ahead in this vibrant and diverse community. It boggles my mind how much he has learned already and how exciting the curriculum is for him. I am not a native French speaker but want my son to be bilingual and learn in an academically rigorous environment. LILA is a pre-K-12 school with over 40 years of experience backed by the French Ministry of Education, is WASC accredited,and whose graduates can choose between an IB or BAC diploma and leave speaking English, French AND Spanish ( with options to study Mandarin, German, Arabic and Japanese). The teachers are dedicated and hardworking- uploading both English and French content to Voicethread to have the kids practice lessons at home, creating activities and projects that involve all 5 senses, managing a class website with photos, videos and blog entries to keep the parents abreast of student activities. Additionally, while my son was having a rough patch behaviorally ( think 4 year old social skills in a very active boy's body), his teacher gave me hand-written DAILY updates on his progress and met with me to collaborate on a plan to help build his interpersonal skills and executive functioning. I know that his teacher understands and cares about my son as a person, and that he is in an environment that is nurturing and safe; there really is no better feeling as a parent than that. You would think that affording such an excellent education would be an issue, but LILA is not much more than the monthly daycare tuition we were paying and FAR less than the average private school tuition in Los Angeles. For parents interested in applying, I would suggest getting as early a start as possible; the waitlist for admission is an undeniable fact, but there is a preference for families who take the initiative to identify LILA as their top choice.

Our daughter is in her second year at LILA. She is currently in kindergarten and we could not be happier. Neither one of us is French but we have Spanish and German speakers in our family. It was very important that our child's education reflect language, cultural diversity, and strong academics in general. All of these parameters are met at LILA and have surpassed our expectations. Our daughter is speaking, writing, reading and counting in both French and English. It is almost as if the French language inspires the English and the English language inspires the French. She is enthusiastic about the school, the students, the teachers, and what she learning.