JuniorK – 2nd Grade
Lower School
Where strong foundations take hold.
Everything built in the early years — the Spanish immersion, the bilingual awareness, the academic curiosity — comes into full force here.
In Lower School, English enters as a formal subject for the first time. Students now read, write, and develop academic literacy in both Spanish and English simultaneously, guided by credentialed specialty teachers across every subject area. Math deepens through the Singapore Math framework. Science becomes investigative.
They learn to collaborate, lead, listen, and compete — in the classroom and on the field. Soccer and tennis coaching becomes more structured and skills-focused, building athleticism, discipline, and the confidence that comes from committing to something and getting better at it.
SELA students aren’t just keeping up — they’re ahead.
While others are learning to read, our students are reading, writing in cursive and print, and doing it in two languages. While others are learning to think, ours are thinking in three.
At SELA, every milestone your child reaches is built on a foundation that goes deeper than grades or test scores. It’s academic excellence woven together with character, confidence, and the kind of curiosity that doesn’t stop when the school day ends.
What your child is building here — the fluency, the discipline, the way they approach a problem — that defines everything that comes next.
This is what a head start actually looks like.
