Lycée Français de New York | Private Bilingual School in NYC

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Admissions for the 2022-23 school year are now open! 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. Register for one of our upcoming open houses, and start your application today!

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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

Students Find Solutions to Reduce the Lycée’s Carbon Footprint
As part of the “Printemps du Climat” organized by the Cultural Center, the Lycée’s Science Department is guiding students through a “Convention Lycéenne pour le Climat,” a high-school wide project designed to help them engage in issues of climate change and work towards a more sustainable future.
What’s Next for the Lycée’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Efforts?
Today, the Lycée is working to confront questions of diversity, equity and inclusion at all levels. Our efforts began several years ago with the creation of faculty and staff, as well as, student diversity committees.
Skills-Based Assessment Puts Emphasis on Student Learning and Development
Starting with this year’s sixth graders, the Middle School of the Lycée Français de New York is gradually adapting a skills-based assessment model in place of traditional grades.

Bernadette Robine

Elementary French teacher
Bernadette has been an Elementary school teacher at the Lycée since 2018, after having taught French at various private schools in New York City. For the 2021-2022 academic year, Bernadette was awarded a Leadership Grant to focus on the applicability of advances in cognitive sciences in the classroom. Her goal is to establish new school-wide practices that allow all students to benefit from progress in neuroscience and pedagogy, while continuing to ensure the best conditions for personalized teaching approaches and ongoing childhood brain development.
Cassandre Milard

Learning Specialist
Cassandre Milard, a learning specialist in the Lycée's elementary school, is a leader in intentional and critical reflections on teaching practices, especially in the area of diversity, equity and inclusion. She envisions a community of educators dedicated to disrupting inequity and advancing justice within their classrooms. She has received a leadership grant for the 2020-2021 school year to develop training programs about diversity and bias from a bicultural standpoint for students from preschool through high school.
Sylvain Charles

Secondary History/Geography Professor
Sylvain is a professor of history, geography and geopolitics in the Secondary School. He joined the Lycée in 2018 after teaching in Paris, Stockholm and Brooklyn. For Sylvain, the acceptance of self and others forms the foundation of all learning, and his passion for issues of identity, inclusion, and gender diversity are based in this philosophy. His grant for the 2021-2022 school year focuses on exploring new strategies to approach discussions of gender identity, with the goal of helping every member of the Lycée community feel fully included and be given equal opportunities to succeed.
Mireille Miller

Elementary Art Teacher
Mireille Miller, an art teacher in the Primary School, has spent the last two decades chronicling women's achievements in her work to bring greater awareness of their contributions around the world. For the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage, she received a Lycée grant to create Women Leading the Way, a national art, history and storytelling project. Students from over 300 students in public and private schools have participated to share intimate stories of the first woman in their family to vote, and to create portraits of inspirational women.
Mathieu Cladidier

French Teacher - Lettres Modernes

Mathieu Cladidier teaches French literature and language in the Secondary School. He previously taught in France, Sweden, California and Australia. In 2020, Mathieu oversaw L'Été@Lycée, an online summer session for Secondary students. These classes in French and in English extended far beyond curriculum, with the aim of encouraging exploration in fields such as architecture, geopolitics in investing, public speaking, cryptography, and journalism.

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.