Lafayette Academy

Specialties

We truly are YOUR LOCAL learning center with personalized tutoring, Homework Help, Shadow Classes, ACT Prep, SAT Prep, and college counseling. We are dedicated to your children and we will do whatever it takes to help them thrive in school. Our tutors and test prep instructors know your children and the local schools.

Our family has lived in Lafayette since 1986 and all four of our daughters attended local public schools from K-​12. We were heavily involved in the community when our daughters were students here and now we are through Lafayette Academy.

Many of our employees grew up in the area and attended the local schools so were focused on the local curriculum and requirements. Moreover, our students get fantastic results and we will do whatever it takes to help them.

Thousands of students come to Lafayette Academy each year, and almost everyone comes often. We have MANY families who have sent all of their children to us for up to 10 years (that’s not an exaggeration). We offer a variety of tutoring services for K-​12 students but mostly those in middle school and high school. Our programs include Shadow Classes for local public high schools including Acalanes, Campolindo, Las Lomas, and Miramonte. We «shadow» most math and science classes at these schools, some foreign languages.

History

Established in 1991.

We started in Lafayette in 1991. Our current owners bought the business in 2003 and later expanded to Danville and Moraga.

Meet the Business Owner

Mark B.

Business Owner

Kathy and Mark Bressler own Lafayette Academy and you’re looking at our four daughters, all alums from Burton Valley, Stanley, and Campolindo.

Kathy is a UCLA grad, and she later earned her college counseling certificate at Cal. She is our college admissions counselor, and she’s helped a lot of students discover and get into great colleges.

Mark is a Cal grad from the «House» era (Animal and Brick), and he later received (not sure about earned) an MBA at Harvard.

Our oldest daughter Mallory graduated from the University of Michigan in 2007. She works for Global Student Embassy here in Northern CA (yeah). Daughter #2 Dana (chronologically, of course) graduated from U.C. Santa Barbara in 2010 and works for a start-​up here in Northern CA (yeah again). Our twins, Hillary (U.C. Davis) and Becca (Cal) just graduated and are back home (yeah yeah again and again). Are you sensing a pattern?

We understand what it takes to raise children in this community and we’re here to help.