International School
The launch of the Beacon Hill International School was announced on Jan. 17, 2007 by Superintendant Maria Goodloe-Johnson. Beacon Hill will be the second international elementary school, joining the John Stanford International School. The program will integrate global perspectives into curriculum, stressing multicultural literature, world economics, global health as well as arts, music, dance and drama from around the world.
Three Language Immersion Programs Offered
The school began offering three key programs starting in Fall 2008: Spanish/English Dual Language Immersion, Chinese Mandarin/English Partial Immersion and an English Language International Program, with incoming Kindergarten students spending half the school day studying and working in a new language taught by native speakers while also simultaneously advancing their academic skills in core curriculum of reading, writing, math and science. The school's current federally-funded Chinese Mandarin classes, taught a half hour each day, will continue for those students attending Grades 2-4. Further information is available at:
