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Number of students |
1360 |
Number of nationalities represented in the school |
60 |
Native English and French speaking teachers |
Yes |
Additional language classes offered by the school |
Mandarin, Spanish, Italian and German |
External examinations or assessments available |
French Baccalaureate |
School provided lunches |
225-seat cafeteria will full-service kitchen providing freshly cooked, healthy, and organic menu items. |
Uniform required |
There is a dress code, but no uniforms! Girls wear gray pants or a skirt, a white button-down shirt, a navy blue cardigan and dark color shoes and coats. Boys wear gray pants, a white button-down shirt, and a navy blue tie and cardigan. Both boys and girls can also wear a Lycee sweatshirt, which can be purchased at the online school store. |
Extracurricular activities or clubs offered |
68 after school programs |
Sports teams or sport competitions available for students |
Yes |
Sports facilities at the school |
- Two gymnasiums with more than 12,000 square feet of space providing two regulation basketball courts and facilitating a wide variety of other sports including, wall climbing, volleyball, soccer and gymnastics. - Rooftop playground for all children in the elementary school, featuring a playing field, playground equipment, creative building blocks in a special safety, padded flooring. |
Qualities and characteristics best defining the school |
Lycée Francais de New York is leading private, independent French and American school offering a bilingual, pluricultural education. |
Teaching approach of the school |
Committed to bilingual French and American education of the highest standard, LFNY's mission is to prepare students of many origins to be thinkers, innovators and leaders, at home in the world. LFNY inspires and encourages 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. |