Fast Facts
- DeKalb County is one of the largest refugee resettlement areas in the United States.
- Roughly half of ICS students are immigrants/refugees, many of them child survivors of war. The other half are native-born Americans from the surrounding neighborhoods.
- ICS serves 400 K-6th graders from over 40 nations and speaking more than fifteen distinct languages.
- The school employs fifteen assistant teachers from the community and has a standard classroom ratio of 10:1.
- Maintaining art, music, drama, physical education and recess in the curriculum is one of the things that sets ICS apart from other elementary schools.
- All ICS students study a second language. Native speakers of languages other than English must go through a rigorous English as a Second Language program before joining their classmates in either French or Spanish.
Each year, hundreds of families |
ICS values are based on the tenets of
the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme, which seeks to
create international, inquisitive and active life-long learners who will help create a better world for our generation and
the next.
