Achievements
96 percent of fifth-graders scored at grade level, in 2005, on North Carolina's annual testing program despite being taught in a foreign language. Also in 2005 the school was a runner-up in the Goldman Sachs Foundation Prize for Excellence in International Education in the elementary and middle school category.
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