Ecole Internationale De New York

We still love this school! My child is in Grade 2 /​CE1 and is a confident student in both French and English. His teachers are amazing! Classes at Ecole Internationale de New York are small, which allows the individualized support every child deserves. Families are welcoming and building a strong supportive international community.

C’est notre première expatriation et la 2ème année que nos filles sont à l’einy (en preK et K).
Petits effectifs en classe, 2 professeurs dans la classe tous les jours, programme français et anglais, locaux situés dans un quartier attractif (Madison square park juste en face comme playground après l’Ecole) et pratique en terme de transports.
Superbes salles de classe.
L’équipe de direction est dynamique, attentive aux requêtes des familles.
Les professeurs sont tous passionnés, sérieux et ont vraiment à cœur de tirer le meilleur des enfants.
Nos filles adorent l’école, parlent anglais couramment, sont stimulées intellectuellement et, surtout, sont épanouies dans leur nouvel environnement.
C’est une petite structure qui permet aussi aux parents de se connaître et d’échanger.
Américains, Francais, Espagnols, Russes.
Une grande diversité culturelle qui permet une ouverture d’esprit et un enrichissement familial.
Nous recommandons vivement l’école internationale de New York.

The teachers are absolutely amazing at what they do (In every class I don’t know how they manage to find them) My son is making tremendous progress and he goes to school every morning with a smile on his face!
Love love the new infrastructures as well!

L’EINY est une école bilingue formidable!
Arrivés depuis 1 an seulement, nos enfants ont trouvé très vite leurs repères et se sont sentis écoutés, entourés alors qu’ils étaient inquiets de ce changement !! L’enseignement est excellent et l’apprentissage de l’anglais a été très rapide pour nos enfants! Le soutien mis en place fonctionne très bien.
Etant de petite taille, cette école permet de créer des liens rapidement avec les autres familles et notre vie sociale s’est rapidement étoffée!
Je la recommande vivement.

My son attended EINY for nursery and pre-​K and we had a wonderful experience. After just two short years, he was totally fluent in French. The teachers and the administration are excellent and the facility is light-​filled and spacious. The other families were friendly and welcoming of our Anglophone family and we have certainly made life-​long friends. There is a great deal of diversity… in our class alone we had American, French, Brazilian and Senegalese families. The academic program was very well constructed and provided a great balance between formal studies and creative activities. I cannot imagine a better pre-​K experience than the one we got. The administration is constantly working to improve the school and they work closely with all of the families and the faculty to make sure everyone’s voices are heard. I highly recommend EINY for anyone looking for a creative, warm, well-​thought-​out top-​tier French bilingual program.

EINY is a joke. They are purely a money-​making, for-​profit enterprise where good teaching happens only because of a few passionate, and absurdly underpaid teachers. The Admin (Yves Rivaud and Clyde Javois) exude a slick Donald Trump-​like aura that instills little to no trust.

I recently went to one of the school tours, and I have to say I have many first, impressions of this French American school. First, when I asked why a bilingual education starting at nursery is better than a full immersion preschool, Yves Rivaud blunted out there are no such full immersion schools in New York. When I said that there are and that I named a few, he responded to me «Oh, they’re not schools, they’re daycare. Oh, they don’t have full day programs.» I responded to him that they are nursery preschools and that one of them has a full day option program. Why is the director and co-​founder of Ecole internationale reacting in such a way to me. What made it worse when I asked about financial aid, he gave me the face like I don’t care you have two children look. He even asked me if my husband is French so we can apply for the French national scholarship. When I responded no, he was like oh. One parent asked about diversity, in particular the numceber of Asian students in the school. Yves could only reply that there are applicants with Asian children. I found that surprising that he could not mention that one of his alumnis was a Vietnamese student, who contributed a review in EINY Time. That definitely shows that this school is more in considering French people. When I mentioned that in my family, there are 3 languages spoken, and that there is no English in the home, Yves, Clyde and their teachers looked at me like I was crazy. Even the Pre-​K teacher asked me if my son knows French. I ensured her that I know some French and that he is taking French classes. This even gives more evidence what the school is looking for. The school itself seems nice, and the curriculum seems promising, but I can sense that it is not what the directors and faculty were portraying it. My husband and I were teachers before, so I can understand the politics of school, and I can see it definitely here at ecole internationale.
So please parents, go to the tour to see for yourself. Don’t waste your $ 200 fee to apply to ecole internationale.

My children at at another French American school in Manhattan. I visited the EINY and found that there was almost no ethnic diversity at the school. I found this very strange given all of the African or Middle Eastern francophone families in NYC. And this is NYC after all, we want our kids to learn to respect all cultures… Given the review above, it makes you wonder…

I found this place advertized in Big Apple Parent. In the beginning they wow you with a pretty mural on the wall and clean classrooms plus parent dinners. However, once they got my money and it was a lot of money — $ 25,000 to $ 35,000 for one kid for kindergarten plus lots of other expenses, they don’t care about satisfying my kid or me. Pity schools don’t have money back guarantees. They claim that non-​English speakers are welcome and that your kid will become bilingual. Mine was not made to feel welcome and he didn’t become bilingual in French. In fact, their excessive strictness and Nazi-​type interrogation of a kid if he got into a disagreement with another kid over sharing a toy at school traumatized my kid and me. They constantly called my office and interrupted me at meetings over such goings on as if a school with little kids never heard of them having a disagreement over toys etc. Then, without your permission, they will have their «language therapist» a strange woman — Elisabeth Cros– start her psycho-​babble to get your kid to think something is fundamentally dysfunctional about him and his whole family because a) he didn’t share a toy, b) his parents are no longer together and c) his family is multi-​racial and multi-​cultural and is spread out all over the globe — They claimed he was «confused and didn’t know WHAT he was» as well as d) if other kids bullied him and he acted in self-​defense the school automatically accused my kid and said the other kids were behaving nicely as if there is only one side to every argument. Also, if we are all supposed to be of one race and culture and from one place, why is this French-​American school in existence in a place like NY where you can find people from every race, creed and color and we think this diversity is beautiful and not at all abnormal. With their attitude, they should be in France and just be a French school. By the way, once I removed my kid from that poisonous school, he started to love school and thrive at his studies and get along well with other kids. Unfortunately, the horrible experience at EINY has turned him off the French language and anything French. I am so glad to be rid of this nightmare from hell school. Pity I had to lose all that money on tuition and worst of all my son had to go through that traumatic experience. No kid deserves this horror! We had to even give away the $ 400 in EINY uniforms we ordered from Land’s End since the sight of them brought back terrible memories of this horrible school.