Quick Facts
Campus
- Year Founded: 1984
- Lower School Campus: PS-4
- Middle School Campus: 5-8
Students
- Number of Students: 205
- Number of Families: 125
- Ethnic Diversity: 98%
- Average Teacher : Student Ratio:
- PS-PK: 1:12
- K-2: 1:12
- 3 & 4: 1:16
- 5-8: 1:17
Faculty & Staff
- Number of Faculty & Staff: 19 full-time, 5 part-time, 5 Administrators, 9 Support Staff/Specialists
- Core teachers with credential or advanced degree: 80%
- Staff Directory
Curriculum Standards
- PS-8: Arabic & Islamic Studies – BIAE
- K-8: English Languages. Arts – Common Core
- K-8: Science – NGSS Aligned
- K-8: Social Studies – CA Framework
Tuition
- Preschool & Pre-K(3 Days): $ 14,193
- Preschool & Pre-k(5 Days): $ 20,005
- Elementary K-4: $ 20,005
- Middle School: $ 20,398
- Afford NHSP
- International Tuition
Accreditation
- CAIS (California Association of Independent Schools
- WASC (Western Association of Schools and Colleges
Recognition
- U.S. Department of Education Nationally Recognized Blue Ribbon School.
- Awarded the Green Ribbon by greenribbonschools.org for work in environmental education.
- Recognized by the California State Senate, the California Assembly, and the Pasadena City Council.
Matriculation (past 5 years)
- Alverno High School
- Flintridge Preparatory School
- Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy
- Harvard-Westlake School
- Mayfield Senior School
- Polytechnic School
- St. Francis School
- Webb School
- Westridge School
More Quick Facts
- Highly qualified faculty of diverse ethnic and religious backgrounds.
- Selected by Nickelodeon as the winner of its Big Help competition.
- Lower School Nature Playground and the Peace Garden are certified as a wildlife habitats by the National Wildlife Federation.
- Featured in the Los Angeles Times, the Pasadena Star News, the Pasadena Sun, and on KTLA News.
- Finalists and winners at the LA County Science & Engineering Fair every year since the school’s first entry in 2003.
- Debate students recognized with Speaker and Team Awards each year in the Rancho California Debate League (two first place speakers awards back-to-back years).
- A civics program that fosters responsibility and citizenship and culminates in an eighth grade trip to Washington, D.C. through the Close-Up Foundation.
- Continuous faculty professional development provided through regular in-services and outside workshops.
- Presentations by our Arabic Language Faculty at several national foreign language conferences (ACTFL and NCOLCTL) and participation in the development of national foreign language standards through George Washington University.
- Models of Unity Award given by the Pasadena Human Relations Commission for the school’s participation and leadership in interfaith activities.
