International School of Portland

"My daughter has attended TIS for three years, Low-K through 1st grade in Spanish. We definitely plan to keep her there through 5th grade. The teachers and staff are all very nurturing, which is the main criterion we wanted from an early learning school. The curriculum is outstanding both the language-based and the English, and the kids also get excellent art, music and PE instruction as well. We’ve been very happy with TIS; my only complaint is that parking and driving in and out of the location can be quite challenging."

"We loved having our children go to TIS. The small class sizes in the Japanese Track allowed for a great teacher to child ratio. Their confidence level was off the charts after taking their Capstone trip during their last year. After 5th grade they moved into the Portland Public Schools Japanese magnet program and excelled both in the junior and high school programs. Our eldest is now a freshman at Lewis & Clark majoring in chemistry with a minor in Japanese. Our youngest, a junior at Grant HS is thinking of attending college in Japan. We are forever grateful for The International School for not only teaching them how to speak the Japanese language fluently, but for also instilling in them the confidence to succeed in today's world."

"As long the Math curricula is based on the Chinese and Singapore systems (which produce the #1 and #2 ranked students in Math in the world), you will not find a school in the area that teaches more advanced Math to K-5 students. By the time our daughter finished 4th grade, the gifted Chinese teachers at TIS had gotten her all the way past what is normally taught in the 5th grade in the US. This became readily apparent when, at the beginning of 5th grade, the class was switched over to Eureka Math's 5th grade curriculum which happens to align with the US common core (which produces students ranked #28). The entire class became completely bored with math and were thankfully switched back."

"The International School has already exceeded our expectations and we have only been in school a few short months! Our daughter was not doing well in her neighborhood school and was asked to repeat Kindergarten. We took the opportunity to give her a completely different chance at feeling successful and it has paid off. She is interested in learning and enjoys going to school everyday. We cannot be more happy with TIS!"

"We have been thrilled with the quality of education that our daughter has received at TIS. She started the Mandarin program the summer she turned 4 and is now in 4th grade. Not only does she read, write and speak Mandarin but she also reads English above grade level, excels in Math (doing pre-algebra and geometry), gets to enjoy a full music, art and PE program and thrive in class sizes that have averaged 15 children. TIS has exceeded our expectations in all ways."