LOS ANGELES — Will Smith’s soon-to-open private school is not a Scientology facility, as some reports have suggested, its director said.

Smith and his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith , founded the New Village Academy, scheduled to open in September. The school will use instructional methods developed by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard . And a few teachers belong to the church. But the couple say they are not Scientologists, and the academy’s director insists the facility has no religious affiliation.

“We are a secular school, and just like all nonreligious independent schools, faculty and staff do not promote their own religions at school,” director Jacqueline Olivier told the Los Angeles Times. She said some of the school’s staffers are Scientologists, Muslim, Christian or Jewish.