Sierra Canyon School - Introductory Brochure

At the northern edge of Los Angeles, one school is changing perspectives.

Learning forward at Sierra Canyon is both a mindset and an action.

As our Lower School’s nurturing philosophy paves the pathway to our Upper School’s intellectual laboratory, your child builds unstoppable momentum toward personal and academic independence— and a lifetime of success.

ingenious teachers

unleash your child’s full potential Inside and beyond the classroom, Sierra Canyon’s teachers create intellectually energizing, hands-on experiences to spark new interests, uncover hidden talents, and sharpen enduring abilities.

With our faculty members’ expert guidance, your child can choose mystery novels for her Lower School Book Roundtable. She can devise original physics experiments rather than copying them from a textbook. She can chase down leads for our award-winning student newspaper, blister a game-winning spike on the volleyball court, or start a nonprofit to restore a local watershed.

Wherever her curiosity takes her, our teachers help her to go as far as she believes she can—then inspire her to push her ambitions even farther.

intrepid classmates turn belief into action

Your child wants his education to benefit everyone—not just himself. Through our intentional character education, empowering service opportunities, and exceptionally diverse school community, we help him grow as a curious learner and compassionate citizen.

As he journeys through our Lower, Middle, and Upper Schools, your child can raise funds for an animal shelter, create a community program to confront racism, or build a robotic hand to extend disabled people’s independence.

Working with classmates from different backgrounds but bound together by unshakable idealism, your child learns his actions can change others’ lives— and channels his empathy into effective solutions.

intensive academics

prepare your child for what’s next Sierra Canyon’s complete pre-kindergarten through grade 12 program always aims toward the bigger picture: your child’s happiness and success in whatever she chooses to do.

Our hands-on, interdisciplinary philosophy activates her intellect, emotions, and body together, so she not only engages with the material—she lives it. From role-playing historical dilemmas in Lower School social studies, to creating her own graphic novel in Middle School arts, to designing working innovations in our Upper School engineering lab, your child builds the personal confidence, academic agility, and ethical courage to take on any challenge.

No wonder our graduates consistently enroll in schools like Harvard, Columbia, Brown, NYU, Duke, Stanford, USC, and UC Berkeley— and go on to create significant, satisfying careers and lives.

inspiring athletics

spark everyone’s ambitions At Sierra Canyon, we’re proud of our champion athletic teams. But to us, winning means more than bringing home a trophy. It means joyfully taking on the responsibility—and the honor— of representing our school in the wider community.

Upholding our school’s shared values, your child proudly strives to excel in everything she does.

From debate to baseball, math team to poetry slams, we give her the tools and encouragement to do her very best work every time.

On and off the field or court, your child inspires teammates and opponents by constantly raising her level of play. She can’t wait to see how far she can go.

insightful artistry

awakens new perceptions In a city teeming with artistic talent and ambition, Sierra Canyon gives your child the skills and encouragement to fully explore his imagination.

Working professionals in their fields, our arts faculty members inspire and guide your child to pursue ever-greater intellectual, emotional, and technical challenges. From painting to digital media, film production to music performance, your child builds acuity and confidence as he develops and shares his own distinct perspective.

Whether or not he chooses a professional arts career, Sierra Canyon’s creative education sharpens your child’s possibilities and widens his world.

Above all,

invincible optimism

powers lifelong achievement Where does learning forward lead?

Wherever your child decides to go.

Through Sierra Canyon’s intentional learning arc, your child builds the agility, courage, and unwavering enthusiasm to take on any endeavor and overcome any obstacle today, tomorrow, and throughout his life.

We invite you to learn forward with us. sierracanyonschool.org

Stretching academically

Engaging compassionately

Sierra Canyon’s ingenious teachers and intrepid students think and work together to understand the world more deeply—and change it for the better. From pre-kindergarten through grade 12, our intensively entrepreneurial program fosters genuine confidence, purposeful creativity, and proactive citizenship, ensuring your child can take on any challenge, today and tomorrow.

A Sierra Canyon education is more than a personal journey.

It’s a mindset and a toolset empowering your child to solve real-world problems. Through intentional character education and abundant service learning opportunities, your child employs her innate empathy, thoughtfulness, and ingenuity to make others’ lives better.

Imagining expansively In Los Angeles, renowned for performing and visual artistry, Sierra Canyon cultivates your child’s most insightful self.

From Chamber Orchestra to digital media, Shakespeare competitions to our film festival, we guide and inspire your child to discover and share her one-of-a-kind perceptions.

At every grade level, we offer your child exceptional opportunities to learn outside the classroom. Your child can join a wide range of clubs—or start his own. He can take a life-changing trip across the globe or to a nearby neighborhood. And our vibrant international program brings students from all over the world to Sierra Canyon—expanding everyone’s perspective.

Competing wholeheartedly

Preparing continuously

Sierra Canyon’s athletic champions energize our whole community. But we also know that winning takes many forms.

By always striving to do better than he did yesterday— as an athlete, student, citizen, and human being—your child lives out our most cherished values, and inspires all of us to do the same.

Sierra Canyon students are invincibly optimistic about their next steps in life. That’s because our momentum-building program equips them to rethink the familiar and embrace the unknown. From our Upper School, students consistently enroll in top colleges—including Harvard, Columbia, Brown, NYU, Duke, Stanford, USC, and UC Berkeley—and go on to forge purposeful careers and lives.

Exploring avidly

LOWER SCHOOL

Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 12

11052 Independence Avenue MIDDLE AND UPPER SCHOOL

20801 Rinaldi Street

CHATSWORTH, CA 91311