Chinese American International School

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Chinese American International School
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Chinese American International School
Beijing

China
Coordinates 37°46′31″N122°25′18″W / 37.775330°N 122.421805°W / 37.775330; -122.421805
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Type Private
Established1981
Head of SchoolJeff Bissell (Chinese name: 毕杰夫 Bì Jiéfū), Ph.D.
Website www.cais.org

Chinese American International School (CAIS) is an independent pre-Kindergarten through Grade 8 co-educational Chinese-English dual language immersion school located in San Francisco, California. [1] CAIS offers a Chinese-English language immersion curriculum. Up to 50% of each school day is in Chinese. [2] The school was the first in the United States to have Mandarin immersion education. [3]

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Preschool

CAIS also has international travel programs for current students, high school-aged alumni, and faculty and staff. [4] The school organizes trips to Taipei, Beijing, and Yunnan in the fifth, seventh, and eighth grades, respectively. [5]

History

In 1981, San Francisco Supervisor Carol Ruth Silver searched unsuccessfully for a Mandarin-English school where she could enroll her Taiwanese adopted son. Not finding one in San Francisco she decided to start her own. She did so with the help of deputy district attorney Mimi Luk, Justice Harry Low, [6] Bernard Ivaldi (then Head of French American International School), Maurice Tseng, Yvon d'Argence (then curator of the Asian Art Museum), Joe Chen, Mike Chiu, Donna Furth, Diana Chan, Francisco Hsieh, George Cheng, and Alice Carnes.[ citation needed ]

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Lower school

In September 1981 the school, then known as the Chinese American Bilingual School, began as a Mandarin-English school. It had an enrollment of 4 kindergarten students operating in the basement of the French American International School. Shirley Lee, a faculty member of the Chinese department at San Francisco State University joined as founding teacher and principal, and remained head of school until her retirement in 2000. In 1989 the school moved to the Presidio of San Francisco. [7] In 1992, a middle school was added (which moved to a new campus in 2015. [8] ) In 1997 CAIS moved into its current main campus at 150 Oak St, the former Caltrans headquarters, [9] in partnership with French American International School.

CAIS has received national recognition for its program. In 1987 the US Dept of Education designated CAIS the "national prototype for Chinese language education in elementary schools."[ citation needed ] In 2004, CAIS was awarded the Goldman Sachs Prize for Excellence in International Education. [10]

In 2021, CAIS secured a former catholic high school property for $40 Million to be the new campus location. [11]

Accreditations

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