Besant Hill School of Happy Valley is an accredited boarding school and day high school for boys and girls, with a college preparatory program, and English language programs for grades 9 through 12. Our school sits atop 450 acres of beautiful land just outside of the town of Ojai, 90 minutes north of Los Angeles in Plumas County, CA and provides challenging academic classes, music, studio art, theater and photography, with an emphasis on creative expression.
Outdoor education, community service and athletics are an important component of the educational experience. As a community, our goal is to cultivate what is excellent in each student. HVS provides a small intimate community where students are able to fully explore and express both their intellectual and creative abilities.
With small classes, mentor student / teacher relationships, and a quiet, rural setting we provide a safe, peaceful environment for learning, study, contemplation, and self-expression.
High School Program for grades 9-12:
- Day Program
- Boarding Program
* We offer a rigorous college preparatory curriculum with English, math, social studies, science, Spanish and French as well as music, studio art, theater and photography.
* Additionally, advanced placement (AP) courses in Spanish, English and calculus are offered.
At The Young Actor's Studio in Los Angeles, we offer acting lessons for children, teenagers and young adults. We offer a full conservatory day or a choice of classes for young actors in 3 age groups: 4-6, 7-12, 13 and up. Classes include comedy improvisation, acting for the camera, acting technique, theater production and scene study and originally commissioned plays. We also offer summer camps. Our faculty includes Jeff Alan Lee, a 20 year child acting teacher of such young actors as Scarlett Johansson and Shia LaBeouf.
The classes at our studio are centered around praising each student for who they are and teaching them to use their own behavior, personality, and charm in their roles. They learn to create a unique, original character that is truly their own. In our acting classes, we teach the student to trust themselves to live naturally and effortlessly on camera, or on stage. Through the Stanislavski system, the child, teen or young adult gains a strong confidence that can be applied to all areas of life. The young actor develops a love for the work, and with this, the ability to survive and work as an actor, if that becomes his or her choice.
* Acting Classes for children, teenagers and young adults
* Three age groups - 4-6, 7-12, 13 and up
* Classes include
- Acting for the Camera
- Acting Techniques
- Comedy Improvisation
- Theater Production and Scene Study
- Originally Commissioned Plays
Located in Santa Clarita, in North Los Angeles County, Trinity Classical Academy is a K-12 Christian, college preparatory academy serving the Santa Clarita Valley and beyond. Our mission is to offer a challenging education grounded in the Christian faith and the Classical tradition to produce young men and women of virtue, wisdom, purpose, and courage.
Trinity Classical Academy features a very challenging curriculum that targets the developmental strengths of Grammar School students by its focus on memorization of the facts and principles that comprise every subject area. Students use a variety of techniques in songs, chants, recitation, diagramming, acting and creating timeliness to engage a variety of learning styles.
Trinity is pleased to announce that we are now inviting international (foreign exchange) students to attend Trinity and receive the same top quality classical, Christian education that all of our students receive.
Brentwood School is an independent day, co-ed school for K-12 students with two campuses in Sunset Boulevard and South Barrington Place in Los Angeles. Families from throughout Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Brentwood, Beverly Glen and surrounding communities value Brentwood School as a vibrant and diverse community whose purpose is to promote personal and intellectual growth. We provide challenging, engaging programs including an exceptional liberal arts education in a nurturing learning environment, devoting care and attention to every student.
Embracing high standards of character, commitment, and achievement, Brentwood School encourages students to think critically and creatively and to act ethically. At the heart of the school's success is the strength of the relationships developed between students and teachers. The environment is supportive and encouraging as well as challenging. Asked to describe the strengths of the school, alumni are nearly unanimous in citing their superior preparation for a successful college experience and their cherished relationships with their Brentwood teachers.
Education Programs:
- Kindergarten Program
- Lower School Program
- Middle School Program
- Upper School Program
Additionally:
- Athletics Program
- Arts Program
- Summer School
* Our Kindergarten curriculum emphasizes language arts, language experience stories, math, social studies and science.
* We provide our students with an exceptional liberal arts education. The program is designed to stretch and broaden students in the academic arena, in the arts, in athletics, and in their moral development.
Located in the Ladera Heights area of southwest Los Angeles, Ladera Music Academy is a music school that offers quality, affordable music classes for students of all ages from infants to senior citizens. We offer beginner to advanced level courses in a wide variety of instruments (guitar, drums, keyboard, violin), vocal lessons, gospel music classes, and instrumental family music camps. Both evening, and weekend classes are available.
Our goal is to encourage children to explore & make music. Music can offer the mental & emotional tools needed for children to build a well-rounded future. Music education offers children the opportunity to develop skills ranging from better concentration to coordination in addition to providing a creative outlet for self expression.
We believe that talent is earned, not given, so we have high expectations that any child can excel in music while also having fun!
Vocal / Music Classes:
- Elementary Children’s Choir (7-13)
- Vocal Performance Techniques (11-18)
- Gospel Music Class (11-18)
- Family Summer Music Courses: Music Together Family Camp
Vistamar School is an independent high school in El Segundo in the South Bay Area of Los Angeles, governed by a self-perpetuating Board of Trustees. We pride ourselves in providing first-rate college preparatory academics, caring relationships, and a global perspective to our students.
Vistamar School empowers students, preparing them to contribute and excel in higher education and in life, and commits to a broad and balanced program that challenges and engages students, building their individual skills and inspiring a passion for learning.
Vistamar provides an intimate atmosphere that fosters initiative, responsibility, knowledge of self and connections to others, and diversity of thought and culture that encourages authentic exchange of perspectives, mutual respect and a mature understanding of the world. In their studies, in their work, and in their communities, Vistamar students will embrace lives of learning, integrity, and purpose.
* English
* History (Humanities)
* Science
* Math
* Languages (Mandarin Chinese or Spanish or other mother tongue language classes)
* Seminars
* Music
* Drama
* Dance
* Graphic arts
* Plastic arts and more...
Sage Garden Montessori is a small home-based Child Care and Pre School Program located in south-west LA near Westchester, Culver City, Inglewood, and Mid City. Our mission at Sage Garden Montessori is to create a safe and loving environment for your children.
Our philosophy is based on anti-bias attitudes. We provide an integrated curriculum which enhances your child's curiosity about their world. We believe that children learn by doing. It is through active participation that children come to discover their talents and responsibilities. It is through friendship and community that children take their place in the family, the larger community, and the world.
Are you searching for an American school that accepts international students?
Located in the San Fernando Valley region, Delphi Academy of Los Angeles is a quality private school in California that provides academic programs for boys and girls from preschool through to high school. We offer an English Immersion Program for international students from around the world.
Suitable for students at elementary, middle, and high school level, this program immerses them in the English language and American culture through participation in classes and social activities with American students.
In addition to our academic year program, we offer an English summer camp, winter camp, and a spring camp.
Homestay accommodation with a local host family can be arranged.
Our school is situated on a beautiful 9-acre campus in the foothills of the Angeles National Forest in the equestrian community of Lake View Terrace - an idyllic location in which to improve your English and make new friends.
Student Testimonial: “I had a very good time at the Delphi camp. I got to do new things like stone carving and woodworking. I made many new friends and my English is much better now!”
- Delphi Camp Student
Academic Year English Immersion Program:
- For international elementary school, middle school & high school students
- Course Duration: Students can choose to study for a full academic year or more, or complete a shorter program
- Accommodation with American host family available
English Immersion Camps:
- Offered in Summer, Winter, and Spring
- Course Duration: 4 weeks but this can be extended up to 3 months
- Accommodation with American host family available
Located in West Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA, West Hollywood Elementary School offers Kindergarten to 6th grade programs for children from West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Sherman Oaks, Beverly Glen, Burbank and surrounding Los Angeles communities. All of us at West Hollywood Elementary School; students, teachers, support staff, parents and community members are dedicated to educating the leaders of tomorrow. Together, we are proud to uphold a rigorous and challenging learning environment rich in diversity, celebrated in achievement and filled with possibility; a school where all of us learn and achieve great things.
Collectively, we encourage the free flow of diverse ideas and perspectives that inspire innovation and hold that all children, regardless of their economic, ethnic, cultural or linguistic background, will achieve not only academic and social success, but reach their maximum potential while they enjoy being a really great kid. West Hollywood Elementary operates as a member of Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) in District 4.
* We pride ourselves on being a school for Advanced Studies, which provides a more advanced curriculum, project based learning, small learning groups and team teaching.
* West Hollywood Elementary is also an Arts Prototype school, offering regular classes in Drama, Dance, Fine Art and Music.
Located on Flower Avenue in Venice on the west-side of Los Angeles, Off-Rose the Secret Studio-Gallery of Venice offers art classes that develop critical thinking and problem solving abilities while experiencing the joy of creativity. Students may develop a portfolio and / or have the opportunity to exhibit. Learn the elements of design and experience various media while gaining an awareness of art history.
Off-Rose the Secret Studio-Gallery of Venice was created with the intent of providing a venue for emerging artists of high quality and unique perceptions who have not yet acquired mainstream exposure. Off-Rose intends to offer serious collectors and the general public the opportunity to participate in art experiences, to dialogue with the artists, and to purchase fine art works at affordable prices.
A long term goal for Off-Rose is to provide exhibition space to young students who show interest and prospects of becoming fine artists in the future.