16180 Mulholland Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90049
Since 1962, Mirman has held true to our founding vision of challenging and inspiring highly gifted children to become complex and creative problem solvers and multidimensional and analytic thinkers as well as contributing and active members of our local and global communities. We continue to realize this vision through honoring the powerful connection between and among our talented faculty and students and partnering with families to ensure a connected and forward-thinking community. Through student-centered programming, we remain committed to fostering a safe and inclusive school culture that cultivates social-emotional and academic growth in our students.
At Mirman, we take a holistic approach to learning, which means our school is not strictly an academic environment. There are vibrant arts and athletics communities at Mirman. We feel our students are able to challenge themselves and learn just as much on the field, court, or stage as they do in the classroom. Just as we work to provide the appropriate level of challenge for our students in math or reading, we support passionate artistic or athletic students with many opportunities to develop their skills and perform. We truly believe that one passion does not need to exclude another. At Mirman, a student is encouraged and guided to enjoy both a vigorous academic path and a variety of extracurricular activities. Our goal is to foster our students’ passions and provide opportunities to try, and excel at, new things.
Challenging and engaging.
Curious and passionate.
Our goal at Mirman is to engage the whole child. Along with academic, artistic, and athletic programs, we strive to make sure our students develop strong character. This development is framed by the Mirman Core Values (Responsibility, Integrity, Discovery, Empathy, Resilience), which describe the skills we feel are necessary for children to achieve success both inside and outside of the Mirman classroom. By organizing our curriculum and instruction around these ideas of responsibility, integrity, discovery, empathy, and resilience, we work to make sure every Mirman student is an individual of high character.
At Mirman, we believe that no school should put a limit on what a child can learn. For that reason, our curriculum model is based on a combination of acceleration and increased depth and complexity. Each of our classes is accelerated by one academic year, meaning a Third Grade class will cover what is traditionally Fourth Grade material. Those grade-level standards are then taught through a thematic lens that encourages students to explore the topics with greater depth and complexity. This allows for our students to be challenged academically while still being in a class of same-age peers that is designed to promote and support their social and emotional development.
– MirmanX is a middle school startup accelerator that encourages Upper School students to tackle moonshot projects that have the potential to help a community in some meaningful, tangible way.
– Our Upper School Concert Singers have earned superior ratings in national adjudicated choral festivals and our Theatre Arts Program has been an honored participant in the California State Thespian Festival for the past 10 years.
– Our student-to-teacher ratio is 7:1.
