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The German International School of Silicon Valley (GISSV) is a private school educating children from preschool to grade 12 using bilingual full immersion. It has sites in Mountain View and San Francisco in California. [1] Students graduate the school with both the German International Abitur and the California High School Diploma.
The Willows Campus houses the INTL’s Early Years Program (Preschool and Pre-K) as well as the school’s Upper School (6th-12th) which includes the Middle Years Programme (MYP) and the Diploma Programme (DP). In addition to its language immersion programs, INTL offers an Upper School Language Acquisition (USLA) program.
Founded by Mme Charlotte de Géry with a small group of parents and friends, the school originally opened its doors to nine students. 10 years later, Alto International School (Alto) was founded by Stephen Kispersky in 1988 as the Deutsch-Amerikanische Schule San Francisco (DAS) as a place for children to learn in a German-English environment.
In February 2017, the City of San Francisco began offering free tuition at CCSF for San Francisco city residents in a two year pilot program called “Free City College”. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] The money for the free tuition was raised from Proposition W, a transfer of properties tax on property sold over $5 million. [ 19 ]
San Francisco State University: Public: 1899 [1] 27,815 University of San Francisco: Private: 1855 [1] 11,086 Golden Gate University: Private: 1901 [1] 5,120 University of California, San Francisco: Public: Medical school: 1864 [2] 5,908 University of California College of the Law, San Francisco: Public: Law school: 1878 [1] ≈1,000 San ...
The school district reopened De Avila in 2009 as a Chinese immersion school because of a surfeit of new kindergarteners in San Francisco. In 2014 it was recognized as a California Distinguished School and Rosina Tong won the mayor's Principal of the Year Award. [24] In 2021, it was recognized as a National Blue Ribbon School. [25]
The cities of Sunnyvale, Mountain View, Palo Alto and Menlo Park are frequently cited as the birthplace of Silicon Valley. San Jose is Silicon Valley's largest city, the third-largest in California, and the 13th-most populous in the United States. [4] Other major Silicon Valley cities include Santa Clara, Redwood City and Cupertino.
University Preparatory Academy (UPA) is a charter school located in San Jose, California, United States.Its charter was approved by the Santa Clara Board of Trustees. UPA opened in the fall of 2007 as a middle and high school, offering grades 7–12th.