INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF MONTEREY

Description

Now in our twenty-fourth year of operation as a charter school, ISM has grown to become a flagship of outstanding K-8 education as Monterey County's first IB World School. From our home on the Manzanita School site in Seaside, we serve 426 students from our surrounding Monterey County communities.

Our board members and employees dedicate themselves to our mission to "educate all children toward becoming conscientious, compassionate, and responsible citizens of the world." We are both an International School-one of nearly two thousand in more than 140 countries across the globe-and a public charter school-one of more than a thousand in California. With this unique combination, we earned authorization as an IB World School offering the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme in grades K-5 and the Middle Years Programme in grades 6-8, making ISM part of a network of nearly 6,000 IB World Schools in 159 countries. IB World Schools share a common philosophy-a commitment to high-quality, challenging, international education (see IBO.org).

Fully accredited by the International Baccalaureate Organization and the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, ISM teaches toward our vision of "a world of understanding" through academic commitments to internationalism and understanding; a broad-based curriculum that includes the arts, physical education, and Spanish beginning in kindergarten; and an inquiry-based-instruction model that fosters student curiosity, initiative, and lifelong learning skills.