GALA 2012

Half a century ahead of their time, our founders saw the advantage of teaching children within a microcosm of the worldwide community. Our community has included luminaries ranging from Eugene Ionesco to Alfred Hitchcock to Claude Levi-Strauss, from Eartha Kitt to Ray Bradbury.

Founded in 1964, Le Lycée Français de Los Angeles offers a classic education in an international environment to students from preschool to 12th grade at five campuses in West Los Angeles. The school, which offers the choice of an English-language college prep program and another entirely taught in French, is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges and fully recognized by the French Ministry of Education. The school has some 800 pupils from more than 55 countries, 60 percent of who are U.S. citizens. Over the last 5 decades Le Lycée Français de Los Angeles has graduated hundreds of students who have enrolled in the most prestigious colleges and universities in the world, and proceeded to distinguish themselves in the arts, humanities and sciences.