Alto International School, a PreK-12 private school in Menlo Park, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area, offers preparatory, multilingual, progressive education, which includes for younger students a German immersion preschool and elementary program.
As an International Baccalaureate (IB) World School since 2007, Alto offers both the IB Primary Years Programme (PYP) from Preschool through Grade 5, the IB Middle Years Programme (MYP) from Grade 6 through Grade 10, and is a candidate school for the IB Diploma Programme (DP) in Grades 11 and 12.
The school was founded in 1988 as the first German school on the US West Coast and changed its name from German-American International School (GAIS) to Alto International School in September 2016. As of 2016 it has 250 students.
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Academic Achievements
Based on the International Schools' Assessment (ISA) and the PISA test of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Alto students consistently outperform comparable schools worldwide and in 2017 Alto's 9th Grade students tested above the highest ranking schools systems in the world and scored in the top 10% worldwide. In addition, according to the 2017 Presidential Honor Roll of the American Association of Teachers of German, students of Alto International School received the most Gold Medals of any school in California and are ranking on 5th place nationwide.
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Rewards
In the July 2017 "Best of the Best" edition of the Bay Area Magazine, Alto International School was awarded Gold Medals for the best school in the following 6 categories: Preschool, Elementary School, Middle School, High School, International School and Language Immersion Program.
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