Lycée Français de New York | Private Bilingual School in NYC

An Authentic Bilingual Experience

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It's never too early to open a child's mind to the gift of a bilingual education at the Lycée Français de New York. Fall admissions season opens right after Labor Day, with open houses for children entering Nursery, pre-K, Kindergarten and First Grade. Come join us!

Citizens of Culture and Courage

Committed to bilingual French and American education of the highest standard, our mission is to prepare students of many origins to be thinkers, innovators and leaders, at home in the world.

We inspire and encourage each student to excel and seek academic and personal challenge, to discover interests and fulfill talents, to embrace diversity and build community, to uphold integrity and contribute to making a difference.

Lycée at a Glance

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60

Nationalities
34

Languages Spoken
150

Artist & Author Visits a Year
68

After School Programs
43

Competitive Sports Teams

Scholastic Art Winners on Display at the Met Museum
Twelve Lycée students received a total of 26 honors at the Scholastic Awards for Art and Writing this year.
Students Present: Panel on Diversity in Children's Literature
12th-grade student Alice Dauchez invites you to a lively discussion.
Introducing Arabic Language Classes
Arabic is one of the UN’s six official languages, with 350 million speakers living across Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

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Aug

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New Faculty & Staff Orientation
8/19/2019 to 8/23/2019
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26

All-Staff Orientation
8/26/2019 to 8/30/2019
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27

Camp Pontiac 2019 (Fall Athletics Teams only)
8/27/2019 to 8/30/2019

Zhora Tsouri

School Librarian
As a school librarian, Zhora works with teachers to integrate library skills and reading projects using the resources of the school's Primary Library. She received a grant from the Lycée in 2018 to research diversity issues in children's book collections. She is an advocate for helping children of all backgrounds and experiences to find positive role models for themselves in the books they read.
Jamie Laurens

Director of Academic Enrichment - English Teacher
Teacher and poet, Jamie is an avid proponent of using mindfulness strategies in school to help students manage the many demands and challenges of life in our fast-paced world. She received a year-long grant to explore the impact of such attention strategies, which began with a review of research on the brain, developmental neurobiology and emotional health. She has been a leader at the Lycée in developing with students and teachers, peer-to-peer strategies for sharing mindfulness practice inside and outside the classroom.
Sylvain Pappalardo

Secondary History-Geographer Teacher
Sylvain, who joined the Lycée team from France in 2012, brings a deep interest in Egyptology and the history of the Middle East to his teaching. He received a summer grant to explore ways of teaching students about religion in a secular context. His work led to the development of a class that uses history, philosophy, science and language-learning to help students better understand world culture and religions, essential to developing a climate of tolerance and understanding.
Mylène Ardid & Carolyn O'Brien

Fourth-Grade Teachers
Mylène, who is French, and Carolyn, who is American, have been teachers in the Lycée's Primary School for over 10 years. Passionate educators with a deep interest in the impact of bilingualism on cognition and learning, they received a co-teaching research grant this year to explore literacy in bilingual learners. As part of their grant, they hosted a series of workshops this past year for Lycée parents interested in learning how to support bilingual learners at home.
Daphnée Marchini-Block

Fifth-Grade Teacher
Daphnée became an Elementary School teacher at the Lycée in 2012. She received a year-long co-teaching research grant to further the Primary School's efforts in Social and Emotional Learning (SEL), a program focused on the emotional development of children. In partnership with the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, she developed training modules for Lycée teachers to use across the Primary School and also organized evening workshops for parents to explore concepts at home with their children.
Frédéric Yvelin

Head of the Lycée's Secondary Science Department
Frédéric has been a science teacher at the Lycée for 20 years. In addition to his work to further develop the school's partnerships with leading science labs in New York, he has been developing an online learning program on the atom for ninth-grade students. Self-directed and optional, the class gives students the chance to explore a topic they care about at their own pace using the technology tools at their fingertips.

Creativity through Culture

Understanding and embracing culture lies at the heart of our educational mission. An openness to culture, and cultures, gives our students many experiences to draw on as they develop their own creativity across many fields of study--from the arts, literature and the humanities to science, technology, engineering and math.