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Our child is in her third year at AIS and we have been extremely happy with the school. Having come from overseas we felt immediately that we were part of the school community and the buddy program worked very well for us. Our daughter has thrived at the school, speaks French very well and impressed French people we know back in Europe. AIS is now one of the few schools in the US accredited with the MYP for the IB. I was frankly amazed at some of the comments here as our experience has been nothing but positive. The arrival of Kevin Glass has been a welcome addition but we felt that there had already been improvements in communication and openness. We see the school as going from strength to strength.
Atlanta International School is one of distinct polar opposites: the primary school employs capable and creative teachers who do all that is within their possibility to engage their students and help them learn to love knowledge and language. But as soon as one reaches the middle school, everything one does is chastised and scrutinized and given an infraction without a legitimate reason or any explanation. I abhored the entirety of my middle school experience: there was minimal communication between teachers, administration and parents; almost all teachers were uninspired and lack lustre, which reflected in my (usually above par) English scores; the students were moody and rebellious thanks to the entire convoluted system. As a freshman in the high school, we are begins subjected to yet another new head, Kevin Glass. Hopefully he'll rev up what was once a fantastic school and fire some of the most notorious teachers.
AIS has lofty goals, but the quality of its teachers is below average. Also, the MS program involves too much discipline and not enough true challenges for the students. The schedule of ever-changing daily classes (every 8 days, and then that again changes due to holidays, field trips, guest lectures, etc.) is very confusing for the students to keep up with and offers no real benefits. The curriculum for Math and Sciences need to be more rigorous (and maybe silly classes like 'PSHE' and 'DEAR' could be done away with, please?) and the teachers need to be nicer and more involved. A disappointing experience for us for MS for sure. The teachers we've had in European and American public schools were MUCH more impressive than at AIS! This school should focus on improving its staff first, NOT its buildings and athletic fields. (AIS Athletics are very weak anyway!)
Great school; the I.B program is simply excellent compared to the American curriculum which only provides students with the bare minimum and no view on the 'outside' world. It provides students with life-long skills and it simply makes you a better overall person. You learn to be hard-working due to the loads of work, and you learn to be a responsible and tolerant young adult. At this school, I have made friends from all around the globe, and the atmosphere at this school is like no other.
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