Lyceum Kennedy French American School - New York, New York

Hamid FARRAJ

Nous sommes particulièrement heureux d'avoir mis nos deux filles dans cet établissement. Notre plus jeune fille était très à l'aise avec l'anglais en à peine un an tout en continuant à améliorer son français. Notre plus grande fille au collège suit un programme totalement identique à un collège français mais avec cette richesse supplémentaire d'un cursus américain. Nous voyons à quelle vitesse elle lit et comprends dorénavant l'anglais, c'est assez époustouflant. Je ne peux que vous conseiller cet établissement qui est idéalement placé à New York.

Jean Paul Fintakpa

Vous voulez vraiment savoir mon expérience dans cette curieuse "école" où on peut inscrire un enfant à 3ans, accepter sa réinscription pour l'année suivante et le radié brutalement à deux mois de la fin de l'année scolaire en cours sans préciser le motif pardon au motif que:

" Your son, although very intelintel and fully aware of his sourroundings in French as well as English class, proved to have some educational needs we are not able anymore to provide during class and individually..."?

Vous insistez à ce que j'evalue cette "ecole" unique à New York où quelqu'un peut se permettre de vous suggérer de donner de la Ritaline à votre enfant en précisant qu'il n'est pas spécialiste ( Cher Monsieur on n'a pas besoin d'être un spécialiste pour savoir qu'on ne peut pas administrer de la Ritaline à un enfant de 4 ans!)?

Vous êtes sérieux pour que je note cette " prestigieuse école" où on peut vous conseiller de consulter un spécialiste pour "l'huperactivité" de votre enfant et refuser de vous écouter dès votre retour et vous signifier clairement qu' on a épuisé toutes les ressources et qu'on ne peut plus garder votre enfant dans ce fameux établissement pour le reste de l'année ?

Expérience sensationnelle, hallucinante, traumatisante. Comme le dirait l'autre au moins aujourd'hui je n'ai plus les maux de tête !

Isabel Fernandes

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Sophie Farraj-Cassez

This is a great school. Kindergarten and primary school are wonderful. Children learn English and French and progress at incredible speed. The middle school is also superb, it fully respects the French curriculum of national education and goes much further with American subjects that enrich the curriculum and reinforce bilingualism. Beautifully well placed in Manhattan, I can only advise you for your children.

Valeria Pascucci

My daughter has been attending the middle school in Manhattan campus since our arrival in NY last year in December (she came from another French school abroad). Everyone (teachers and children) helped my daughter to set in the middle of the school year. I found greats teachers highly trained. The french program of National Education is fully respected and it is enriched with some american subjects (american history and maths) so that after few month my daughter started to speak also english. I'm sure that after our 4 years in NYC she will be trilingual (french, english and italian). They also study another language (choice between Spanish and German) and they also organize really interesting activities after school (my daughter attends theatre club). We are really happy with the Lyceum Kennedy!

Daniela Castillo

My niece goes here and she raves about all of the teachers. First time I've heard of a child sound so enthusiastic about attending classes! They have the best educators that are truly passionate about investing the time and care to help their students grow and be enthusiastic about learning.

David

Great school. My kids love it. It is a truly bilingual school where kids have 2.5 days in a French class with a French teacher following the French program and 2.5 days in the English classroom with an English teacher following the nyc curriculum. The best of both worlds!

Melissa Lorenzo-Hervé

Our daughter has been at Lyceum Kennedy for one year and recently started her second year. Her French improved remarkably after her first semester due to the classroom schedule that alternates between an American teacher and NY State curriculum and a French teacher teaching a French curriculum. The classroom experience is enhanced with local field trips and several after-school offerings, including Kinderdance, piano and violin lessons, arts and crafts and Spanish classes (for an additional fee of course). While the school does have several dedicated teachers, most of the administration and all of the board of directors are lacking in their focus on improving the school's academics or retaining teachers and students long term. The school apparently does not help the foreign French teachers obtain work visas, which creates a continually revolving door of new teachers every 3 years or so. This leads to a lack of stability and continuity in the school, compounded by a continually changing student body largely made up of the children of expats and UN employees who stay in NY for only 2 or 3 years usually.
That said, the student body is more ethnically mixed that at other NYC French schools, and the children are exposed to a broad array of countries and cultures as part of their curriculum - not only French and American. The Parents Association is quite active and working toward ensuring the elementary children have outdoor recess every day (an issue over which they recently butted heads with the administrators) as well as pursuing new fundraising efforts. Hopefully the administration is receptive to these efforts and a new Head of School is hired soon.