Alto International School

Alto International School

Address
475 Pope Street Menlo Park, California 94024 United States
Coordinates	37°27′41″N 122°09′26″W / 37.4614°N 122.1571°W / 37.4614; -122.1571Coordinates: 37°27′41″N 122°09′26″W / 37.4614°N 122.1571°W / 37.4614; -122.1571
Information
School type	Private, independent
Established	1988
Head of school	Sally Thorogood
Grades	PreK–12
Colour(s)	Kelly Green
Mascot	Dragon
Accreditation	International Baccalaureate, Western Association of Schools and Colleges, DSD Schule (German accreditation)
Website	www.altoschool.org

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.^[1]

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^[2]. 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.^[3]

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.^[4]^[5]

References

↑ "The German-American International School (GAIS) Announces Name Change to Alto International School and Launches IB High School in Menlo Park." Alto International School. Retrieved on January 24, 2017.
↑ "Alto High School Students Outperform Highest-ranked School Systems" (PDF).
↑ "Presidential Honor Roll - American Association of Teachers of German". www.aatg.org. Retrieved 2017-05-06.
↑ "Bay Area Parent - Best of the Best, page 77".
↑ "Bay Area Parent - Best of the Best, page 78".

External links

Alto International School
German-American International School
German-American International School at the Wayback Machine (archive index)

San Mateo County, California Schools
Public high schools and notable schools
Cabrillo USD	Half Moon Bay
Jefferson Union HSD	Jefferson High Oceana Terra Nova Westmoor
San Mateo Union HSD	Aragon Burlingame Capuchino Hillsdale Mills San Mateo Peninsula Continuation San Mateo Middle College Crestmoor (closed)
Sequoia Union HSD	Carlmont Menlo-Atherton Sequoia Woodside Summit Preparatory Charter Everest Public Ravenswood (closed) San Carlos (closed)
South San Francisco USD	El Camino South San Francisco High Baden Continuation
Independent schools
Secular private schools	Alto International School Crystal Springs Uplands School Menlo School
Religious private schools	Alma Heights Christian Schools Junípero Serra High School Mercy High School Notre Dame High School Sacred Heart Preparatory Woodside Priory School

International schools in California
This template only includes day schools; Japanese supplementary schools and other weekend/supplementary schools are not included.
Los Angeles area	International School of Los Angeles Lycée Français de Los Angeles Nishiyamato Academy of California
San Francisco Bay Area	Ecole Bilingue de Berkeley French American International School Lycée Français de San Francisco International School of the Peninsula Santa Rosa French-American Charter School Alto International School (formerly German American International School) ()** German International School of Silicon Valley Chinese American International School Yew Chung International School – Silicon Valley International School of the Peninsula La Scuola International School (San Francisco) San Francisco Pacific Academy (former Russian American International School)
San Diego	San Diego French American School
Former	International Bilingual School (Los Angeles area)*()**
*()** - This school was not recognized as a Japanese international school (nihonjin gakkō nor shiritsu zaigai kyōiku shisetsu) by the Japanese Ministry of Education Schools marked with two asterisks ()** are unrecognized by the Central Agency for German Schools Abroad (ZfA), not appearing in its list of German schools in the United States.

German international schools in North America
United States	German International School Boston German School New York Alto International School(*) German American School of Portland German International School of Silicon Valley German School Washington, D.C.
Canada	German International School Toronto Alexander von Humboldt German International School Montreal
Mexico	Colegio Alemán Alexander von Humboldt (Mexico City) Colegio Alemán de Guadalajara Colegio Humboldt Puebla Colegio Alemán Cuauhtémoc Hank(*)
Costa Rica	Colegio Humboldt
El Salvador	German School of San Salvador
Guatemala	Colegio Alemán de Guatemala
Nicaragua	German Nicaraguan School
Schools marked with asterisks *()** are unrecognised by the Central Agency for German Schools Abroad (ZfA), not appearing in its list of German schools in Mexico.

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