The French American Internati's Profile

The French American International School (FAIS) offers French-based classes at the preschool through elementary levels and a middle school program where students choose to study in French or English and add a foreign language. There are 460 students enrolled in preschool (petite section) through the eighth grade (quatrième).

FAIS is one of the larger private schools in the Portland metropolitan area and one of thirty-two French schools in the United States and 400 French schools worldwide accredited by the French Ministry of Education. Committed to academic excellence as the premier provider of international foreign language immersion education in the Portland metropolitan area, the goal of FAIS is to employ the rich resources of an internationally recognized curriculum in order to help each student realize his or her full potential. FAIS students consistently perform above their French and U.S. peers in standardized tests, and move on to enroll in a handful of academically challenging high schools in the Portland area. Teachers work daily to stimulate intellectual curiosity, encourage independent thinking, and foster individual responsibility.

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