Alto International School


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 World School since 2007, Alto offers both the IB Primary Years Programme from Preschool through Grade 5, the IB Middle Years Programme from Grade 6 through Grade 10, and in 2018 received accreditation for the IB Diploma Programme in Grades 11 and 12. The school also offers the Deutsches Sprachdiplom Stufe I and II, which entitles foreign students to apply for university entry in Germany.
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 to Alto International School in September 2016. it has 250 students. In August 2018, Alto launched a partnership with Stiftung Louisenlund near Kiel, Germany, to develop joined student programs. Since Summer 2019, Alto International School is part of the Round Square network of international schools.

Academic Achievements

Based on the International Schools' Assessment and the PISA test of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, 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. In addition, according to the Presidential Honor Roll of the American Association of Teachers of German, students of Alto International School ranked in 2017 and 2018 within the top 3 schools in California and within the top 10 schools nationwide.

Rewards

In 2017, 2018 and 2019 the "Best of the Best" edition of the Bay Area Magazine, Alto International School was awarded Gold and Silver Medals for the best school in the following 6 categories: Preschool, Elementary School, Middle School, High School, International School and Language Immersion Program.