Bridges Academy, Los Angeles, is a college prep school (Grades 4–12) serving twice-exceptional (or "2e") learners—students who are gifted but who also have learning differences such as Autism, AD/HD, executive functioning challenges, processing deficits, and mild dyslexia.

Bridges Academy started as a private tutorial for three students in the home of founder Carolyn McWilliams in 1994.

Bridges continued absorbing more and more classroom and administrative space until finally purchasing the campus in 2011 at which time OSULA moved on to another location.

Gifts, passions, talents and interests are cultivated through stimulating core academic classes, a rich array of electives and enrichment clusters, project-driven Intersessions and a Young Experts Achievement program.

[1] The learning disabilities among the gifted and very gifted student population include: Autism, nonverbal learning differences, organizational challenges, Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, audio and visual processing problems, dysgraphia, and anxiety.

In sports, Bridges participates in the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) in basketball, cross country, track, and golf.

Other sports and physical activities are part of the traditional fitness component of the curriculum.

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