Learning forward

Stretching academically

Sierra Canyon’s teachers and students think and work together to understand the world more deeply—and change it for the better. Our Lower School program fosters genuine confidence, purposeful creativity, and proactive citizenship, ensuring your child can take on any challenge, today and tomorrow. From learning to read to solving algebraic equations, we guide and inspire your child to discover a true love of learning.

Imagining expansively

In a city renowned for performing and visual artistry, Sierra Canyon cultivates your child’s most insightful self. From learning to play violin to exploring various painting, drawing, and sculpting techniques, we guide and inspire children to discover, celebrate, and share their one-of-a-kind perceptions.

Competing wholeheartedly

We’ve nurtured more than our share of champion athletes. Our program starts in the Lower School, with professionally coached basketball, soccer, swimming, and volleyball—among other options. But we also know that winning takes many forms. By always striving to do better than yesterday, on and off the field, your child lives out cherished values of teamwork and sportsmanship.

Engaging compassionately

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 innate empathy, thoughtfulness, and ingenuity to make others’ lives better.

Exploring avidly

Throughout the Lower School journey, we offer exceptional learning opportunities in and out of the classroom. Aside from learning to be a critical thinker, influential writer, passionate reader, and sharp mathematician, your child will learn to play the violin, speak Spanish, build a robot, practice mindfulness, research using reliable sources, and discover their inner artist. Afterschool offers additional opportunities to dive deeper into their passions or discover new ones. We offer a robust array of clubs and enrichment classes in the performing and visual arts, athletics, and computer science. Check them out at SCenrichment.org.

Preparing continuously

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 elite colleges—including Harvard, Columbia, Brown, NYU, Duke, Stanford, USC, UCLA, and UC Berkeley—and go on to forge purposeful careers and lives.

Every step in Sierra Canyon’s Pre-K – grade 12 journey adds up to one goal: readiness for what’s next.

In our Lower School’s verdant haven, your child discovers and hones indelible talents and abiding interests.

Our program intentionally builds academic agility, genuine confidence, and compassionate character preparing your child to thrive in the intensive intellectual classrooms of our Middle and Upper School.

From that capacious launch pad, Trailblazers set forth for college and beyond as an uncommonly self-aware, self-advocating, and self-directed young adult. We call that learning forward.

If you think our school could be the right choice for your family, call 818.882.8121 to schedule a visit.

No matter how high your child can go, as a student and as a person, this school rises to meet that potential.

– SC Parent