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Causes: Adult Education, Education
Mission: Our inclusive, globally minded community develops highly motivated and academically successful bilingual learners. Isd students are inter-culturally adept and make positive contributions in a complex world.
Programs: See schedule othe school, a colorado not-for-profit corporation incorporated april 25, 1978, is an independent, co-educational day school striving to fulfill the highest educational standards of the united states, france, spain, china, and other countries in order to prepare its students to thrive in a diverse and competitive global society. The school offers full immersion education in french, spanish, and mandarin for children ages 3 and up, from kindergarten through fifth grade. In fall 2011, the school added an international baccalaureate-middle years program, expanding educational offerings through eighth grade. The school enrolled approximately 650 students during 2016 and 2015 in the denver, colorado metropolitan area that come from a variety of cultural and linguistic backgrounds and many different countries. The school also offers a wide variety of after school programs focusing on sports, dance, language, music and the arts, and new language classes for parents/adults who wish to improve their foreign language skills. Additionally, a variety of camps are offered during the school breaks and over the summer. The french program is accredited by the aefe (agency for french education in foreign countries), which also provides financial aid to certain students. Additionally, the school has an established relationship with hanban, the international cultural and teaching arm of the chinese ministry of education, and has been named a confucius classroom, language and literacy laboratory site. In 2012, the spanish program was named one of the top four elementary spanish language-immersion schools in north america by the spanish ministry of education, culture and sport.