Quality Schools International

Quality Schools International
Information
Type Non-profit school organization
Motto Success for All
Established 1971
President H. Duane Root and Jim Gilson
Language English
Newspaper Quintile
Website https://www.qsi.org/


Quality Schools International (QSI), founded by Jim Gilson and Duane Root, is a group of non-profit international schools offering education in the English language, in a number of countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas. The first school was founded in 1971. The organization's world headquarters is in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Associations

QSI schools are accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools (MSA).[1] The chain is a member of CEESA, the Central and Eastern European Schools Association for US Overseas schools.[2]

QSI schools serve as Collegeboard Advanced Placement and/or SAT testing centers.;[3] they participate in the National Honor Society and the National Junior Honor Society.

QSI offers an International Baccalaureate diploma at some of its larger schools.[4]

QSI is a partner organization with NWEA and offers the Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) computerized adaptive standardized test at all school locations. The United States government U.S. Department of State Office of Overseas Schools provides funding and assistance to QSI schools[5]

History

Quality Schools International is an outgrowth of Sanaa International School, founded in Yemen in 1971 by James E. Gilson. Two decades later, in 1991 James E. Gilson and Duane H. Root, founded Quality Schools International.

Philosophy

Teachers and students at Quality Schools International share a common motto: Success For All. Maintaining high expectations, differentiating to meet individual needs, and integrating social Success Orientations into the school day combine to fulfill the belief that each student can and will succeed. Quality Schools International offers academic curriculum[6] for students in the 3-year-old through Secondary IV (Grade 12) classes[7].

Individual schools

As of 2017, QSI operates 36 schools in 30 countries.[8]

Europe

Former:

Asia

Former:

Caucasus

Africa

  • QSI International School of Benin in Contonou, Benin
  • QSI International School of Djibouti in Djibouti, Djibouti

The Americas

Former:

References

  1. ↑ MSA CESS list of schools
  2. ↑ CEESA list of members
  3. ↑ College Board SAT test centers 2012–13
  4. ↑ IBO list of schools
  5. ↑ U.S. Department of State Office of Overseas Schools.
  6. ↑ "Curriculum". Wikipedia. 2018-02-02.
  7. ↑ "Class (education)". Wikipedia. 2017-12-01.
  8. ↑ QSI official website, retrieved 13 April 2016
  9. ↑ "."
  10. ↑ Home. QSI International School of Puerto La Cruz. June 1, 2009. Retrieved on September 23, 2016.
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