News & Weekly Letters

The World of Work is back for its twelfth season at The École in 2025-2026! We are delighted to welcome a variety of industry experts to meet our 8th Grade students in their classroom and share their professional experience, values, background, and knowledge with them.

We hope your summer is off to a wonderful start.

On our end, we’re pleased to share some exciting news: this week, we received the all-important Certificate of Occupancy from the City of New York. While this milestone was expected following the different inspections we successfully underwent over the past few weeks and months, it remains a significant achievement and a moment of collective joy (with a measure of relief!) for everyone involved.

As I sat down at my computer this morning, I realized that this is my last real letter of the year—I’ll wish you a happy summer break on Wednesday, the last day of school, but that will be a brief message. I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your positive feedback about these letters. I truly enjoy writing them, then reading Andria’s translation, and I’m glad to hear that, for at least some of you, they’ve become an important weekly rendezvous.

As the school year comes to a close, we’re thrilled to share some exciting news with you regarding the progress on our new building.

With this week of shows coming to an end, and only the 5th graders left to perform next week when they return from the AEFE-UNSS sports tournament, a chapter is also closing. When I arrived in 2020, the corridors were still humming with the rapturous applause from the end-of-year shows orchestrated by Julien Budrino and Vincent Pauchon. For a long time after, people sang the praises of the children’s talent, the beauty of the choreography, and the wonderful things they had seen. COVID brought all of that to a halt.