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BASIS Independent Fremont School Opens to Inaugural Classes
New K-5 Fremont School Offers Innovative Teaching Model and Critically-Acclaimed, Internationally-Benchmarked Curriculum
BASIS Independent Fremont, the newest private school from the nationally-ranked BASIS.ed network, opened its doors today to its first classes of students.
“We are pleased to welcome our inaugural classes from across the Bay Area to BASIS Independent Fremont today,” said Head of School, Dr. Ashley Leyba. “With the help of our nationally-renowned curriculum, we look forward to watching our students grow and learn over the coming years and develop into the future leaders and entrepreneurs of our community.”
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The Fremont-based school teaches the award-winning curriculum from BASIS.ed, which has attracted attention from across the U.S. for routinely having students rank among the highest in the world on international tests. The BASIS.ed program incorporates hands-on, project-based, STEM learning, with engineering and Mandarin courses beginning as early as kindergarten and lab-based sciences with students as young as 10 years old. Both US News & World Report and the Washington Post have ranked this curriculum among the best in the nation this year.
BASIS Independent Fremont is designed to blend the rigor of European and Asian education models with American creativity and a strong liberal arts base. Equally unique is BASIS Independent Fremont’s approach to teaching: students learn from subject expert teachers who often possess either a masters or doctorate in their respective field and have both deep expertise and a passion for teaching their subject.
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BASIS Independent Fremont students are coming from across the Bay Area, from Fremont, San Jose, Milpitas, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, Palo Alto, Union City and Newark, Dublin, and Pleasanton.
“Our goal is to ensure that we give all of our students a quality education which includes high-caliber teachers and a creative curriculum,” Leyba said. “We are committed to ensuring that our students are excited, inspired and challenged in the classroom in a way that facilitates the highest levels of learning possible.”
BASIS Independent Fremont is the second BASIS.ed school opening in the Bay Area, following its sister-school, BASIS Independent Silicon Valley, which offers grades 5-12. BASIS Independent Fremont has opened to K-5 classes but plans to incrementally expand grade offerings each consecutive year by enrolling K-6 in 2017, K-7 in 2018 and K-8 in 2019. The school is working towards securing a high school campus by 2020. Enrollment for the 2017-18 school year begins in September.
The BASIS Independent Fremont facility, located at 3300 Kearny Street in Fremont, was designed by Sean O’Donnell of Perkins Eastman. Key features include new refurbished classrooms filled with natural light, multipurpose spaces and a new playground.
The school is still accepting transfer students for the 2016-17 school year. For more information, parents can visit fremont.basisindependent.com.
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About BASIS.ed
BASIS.ed was founded to transform American education to the highest international levels. BASIS.ed manages twenty-seven schools, including eighteen in Arizona, two in Texas, and one in Washington, D.C., as well as five independent schools in San Jose and Fremont, CA; Manhattan and Brooklyn, NY; and McLean, VA; and one international school in Shenzhen, China. For more information please visit basised.com or basisindependent.com.
