The Buckley School

Teaching and Staff Jobs at The Buckley School

The Buckley School in Sherman Oaks, California, educates 700–1,000 students across elementary, middle, and high school in the San Fernando Valley. Located in a prosperous residential community northwest of downtown Los Angeles, the school occupies a day campus where most faculty live within a 20-minute commute. As a non-denominational independent school, The Buckley School anchors its culture in the Buckley Commitment—a formal code that every teacher and student signs each September, pledging respect, kindness, honesty, loyalty, self-discipline, and self-reliance.

Teaching here means working in a community where character expectations are visible and shared. The Buckley Commitment appears in every classroom, making institutional values explicit rather than assumed. Faculty model and reinforce these principles daily, creating consistency between what the school teaches in ethics and what students experience in classrooms and hallways.

The Buckley School supports multilingual literacy through dedicated Chinese Mandarin, French, and Spanish programs, creating openings for language teachers and interdisciplinary instructors. Across elementary, middle, and high school divisions, the school hires classroom teachers, subject specialists, coaches, and administrative staff. Day school employment appeals to candidates seeking clear professional boundaries: teachers manage their own housing and meals, maintain local roots in the Los Angeles area, and build connections within Sherman Oaks and surrounding neighborhoods.

For educators drawn to schools where a signed behavioral covenant shapes daily practice, The Buckley School offers a distinctive independent school model. The explicit commitment framework reduces ambiguity about institutional expectations and creates conditions for stable, values-driven teaching.

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