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is a
charter A charter is the grant of authority or rights, stating that the granter formally recognizes the prerogative of the recipient to exercise the rights specified. It is implicit that the granter retains superiority (or sovereignty), and that the rec ...
elementary school in
Peachtree Corners, Georgia Peachtree Corners is a city in Gwinnett County, Georgia, United States. It is part of the Atlanta metropolitan area, and is the largest city in Gwinnett County with a population of 42,243 as of the 2020 US Census. Peachtree Corners is the only ...
, in the
Atlanta metropolitan area Metro Atlanta, designated by the United States Office of Management and Budget as the Atlanta–Sandy Springs–Alpharetta, GA Metropolitan Statistical Area, is the most populous metropolitan statistical area in the U.S. state of Georgia and the ...
. The school is directly chartered by the State of Georgia. It is a bilingual English-Japanese school, the first of such in Georgia. The school accepts students who reside in Georgia. In 2019 the principal was Tara Ranzy.


History

It was established in fall 2018. It opened after an area private Christian English-Japanese bilingual school,
Seigakuin Atlanta International School was an international, private, Christian elementary school located in Peachtree Corners, Georgia, United States, northeast of Atlanta, It is an affiliate to Seigakuin University,Lively, Kit.EDUCATION IS MADE IN JAPAN, EXPORTED TO ATLANTA" ''Orlan ...
, closed. In 2019 it had 160 students, and it aimed to get up to 300.


Operations

Most of the money that the school has comes from the state government, and the U.S. federal government gives additional funds. It does not receive any money from the county government because it is a charter school.


Student body

Students include those who are native English speakers, native Japanese speakers, and some native speakers of other languages.


Curriculum

The school has a larger amount of content taught in Japanese in lower grades while English is used more heavily later. the balance at the Kindergarten level is 20% of the content in English. For grades 1-2 and then 3, the percentage of English content increases to 40%, and then 50%, respectively. English and Japanese medium instruction is used in each major subject. Teachers who teach Japanese medium content work with those who teach English medium content. The school also had plans to have 45-minute courses about Chinese with two or three occurrences per school week per student.


See also

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Consulate-General of Japan, Atlanta The is a diplomatic mission of Japan. It is located in the Buckhead area of Atlanta. The consulate's jurisdiction includes Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina, and South Carolina.Hinoki International School Hinoki International School (previously known as the Japanese American School of South East Michigan or JASSEM) was a two-way Japanese-English language immersion elementary school in Livonia, Michigan in Metro Detroit which opened in 2010 as a ch ...
- Japanese-English bilingual charter school in Metro Detroit


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International Charter Academy of Georgia
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