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Nursery, Pre-K, K
Thank you for your interest in Nursery, Pre-K, and K at the Lycée! The Lycée team intentionally and thoughtfully enrolls a well-balanced and diverse community of students who will thrive in our bilingual program. Applications for the 2023-24 school year opened on September 1 2022.
All interested families are encouraged to apply, as a child's current level of French is not one of our selection criteria for students entering Nursery, Pre-K, and K (Maternelle). Students in Maternelle are not required to speak French at the time of admission. Each class has two teachers, one French-speaking and one English-speaking, who accompany children along their path to bilingualism.
Nursery, Pre-K, K Admissions Criteria
We follow a set of core criteria to establish admission eligibility.
- Your child must be 3 years old by the first day of school to enter Nursery.
- Your child must be 4 years old by December 31 to enter Pre-Kindergarten.
- Your child must be 5 years old by December 31 to enter Kindergarten
The Admission Process
- Applications must be completed via our online application portal, and a non-refundable fee of $200 is required to apply. Once a profile has been created on the portal, an individualized checklist of all application components and deadlines will be generated in the SchoolAdmin portal and sent to you.
- Once the application has been submitted and processed by our admissions team, you will be invited to set up a Zoom interview to talk about your child and your family.
- If your child currently attends a preschool program, we request letter from their teacher that discusses the child's social-emotional development, physical development, behavior in the classroom, and their receptive/expressive language. For students applying to Kindergarten, teachers are welcome to use this ISAAGNY form, to be sent directly from your child’s current school to admissions@lfny.org.
- Save the date! On Friday, January 13, 2023 we will be hosting an in-person preschool evaluation day at the Lycée. Families located outside of the New York Metro area will receive instructions to video record their child completing a series of developmentally appropriate tasks designed to help us evaluate their readiness for our program.
- The Admission Office is pleased to offer a variety of events to help you get to know our school. Click here to learn more and register for our fall/winter Open Houses and virtual information sessions. Please note that all events are an optional part of the application process.
- For September 2023, we anticipate 34 openings in Nursery, 20-24 openings in Pre-K, and 40-44 openings in Kindergarten.
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