Based on their English level, each school offers free ESL classes (English as a Second Lenguage), where students are taught in even smaller class sizes and reduced groups to improve their proficiency quickly to secure the best academic results.

As always in our trips and schools visits, we got to supervise every single aspect of the centers and verify they all meet the highest expectacions. All the schools offer cutting edge academic facilities like science labs, interactive boards, 3D printers or laser cuts to improve the student’s results and encourage a very practical and interactive academic system (not based only in memorization). This includes individual presentations, teamwork experiments and research proyects that enable students to get out of their comfort zone and develop their personalities, confidence and academic strenghts while promoting different debates and approaches for each particular class and topic.

Campus

The program offers a completely American Experience with over 90% American students in each school and around 10% international students so the immersion in the North American culture and the academic system is guaranteed.

All host families are carefully chosen and the priority is always selecting the ideal family for the candidate’s profile and interests: families with or without children, with another international student, with similar sports interests, weekend activities, trips, etc.

Classes

The academic program fees include several weekend activities with no extra cost called American Experience (aquí está mal en la versión actual en español y hay que poner American Experience en lugar de Academic Experience), that allow students to participate in all kinds of field trips, visits to major cities, amusement parks, NBA games, American Football games, theaters, snow trips, beach trips, etc.

This program allows students to return back home to their countries for Christmas break and spring break, but if they wish to stay during the entire academic program those holidays with the American host family are all included without any extra cost. According to our experience it’s also highly recommended the students stay during the entire length of the program since it would be the only chance the students ges to spend those holidays in America as a member of the family.

The student’s parents can also visit them in the USA any time they want during the academic year and spend some time getting to know the area, school, host family and close cities like New York, Boston, Orlando and Phoenix. They just need to inform us ahead of  time so the host family and the school are aware they will be visiting and we can arrange the needed transfers and meetings with teachers, coaches and principal to check on the academic and sports performance of the candidate.

The program includes two meals during the week with the host family, breakfast and dinner. For lunch, the schools offer their own menu for around 6$ a day (not included). During the weekends, the students will have lunch as well with the host family.

 

Environment

The program offers a wide range of opportunities in sports and extracurricular activities according to the interests of each candidate: soccer, tennis, swimming, lacrosse, golf, basketball, baseball and rowing are just a few examples offered.

The selection of schools International Academic Programs promotes allows students to participate in 3 different sports during the academic year. Each season offers different sports so students get to practice up to 3 different specialities. During fall, they get to play soccer, field hockey or golf for example, while in winter they practice indoor sports like swimming, basketball, volleyball or indoor soccer among other outside options like ski or snowbarding. In Spring, once the weather is warm again, the students get to play tennis, lacrosse, track and field or even sailing.

For clubs and extracurricular options, students can participate in many different programs like arts, movie and tv production, music, chorus, drama, culinary arts, web design, virtual reality, and video game design, among many others.

Sports

Extracurricular activities

Recreation