Learn more | Lorain Bilingual Academy

For Lorain parents who’ve started wondering if there’s something better. Your child isn’t struggling because they’re behind. They’re struggling because nobody’s teaching them in the language where their thinking actually works yet. Lorain Bilingual Academy is a public charter school in Lorain, Ohio, serving students K(EE) through 8th grade. Ohio’s 2024–25 report card gave the school 4 Stars for Progress and 4 Stars for Gap Closing.

Students here make more than a year of academic growth on average.
The school exceeds state standards for closing gaps between student groups.
Your child’s teacher works with them in both English and their home language all year.

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Two languages. One teacher who knows your child.

Your child’s teacher works with them in both languages all year. Not a rotation of translators. The same person, building the same relationship, in English and their home language.

Academic growth in both languages at the same time.

The school tracks your child’s progress in both languages. They don’t fall behind in one to catch up in the other. The growth happens together.

Language as identity, not remediation.

Being bilingual is treated as a strength here, not something to fix. Your child’s home language is part of how they learn, not something they leave at the door.

Your child gets noticed for trying, not just performing.

A daily recognition program means your child gets noticed for showing up, doing the work, and pushing through the hard part — not just for test scores. They hear about it. Not just at the end of the year. Every day. Ohio Report Card Results:

Progress Rating: 4 Stars, Exceeds State Standards
Gap Closing Rating: 4 Stars, Exceeds State Standards
Overall Rating: 3 Stars, Meets State Standards
Performance Index Score: 59.0, Up from 54.3 in 2023–24

Everything you just read about? It costs nothing.

Bilingual instruction built into every school day — students grow academically while gaining fluency in two languages.

No tuition
No fees
Free breakfast and lunch every day
Free transportation

Lorain Bilingual Academy is a publicly funded school. And it's the only bilingual school in Lorain — meaning the Spanish instruction, the culturally responsive classrooms, all of it, costs families nothing to enroll.

“From my perspective, Lorain Bilingual Academy is the best academically. The way the school communicates and interacts with parents plays a major role in the quality of education for each and every child. I 100 percent recommend it.”

Carme Rivera, parent of a 1st grader

Your child’s in school right now. Today counts. Tomorrow counts. Every semester they spend in a school that’s not moving them forward is a semester they don’t get back.

4 Stars Progress. 4 Stars Gap Closing.