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Welcome to CAIS! We are a coed independent school serving preschool (ages 2-4) through eighth grade located on 19th Avenue in the Lakeside neighborhood of San Francisco. Founded in 1981, CAIS was the first Mandarin immersion program in the United States. Having moved through five different campus locations in more than four decades, our new Forever Home is a best-in-class 5.4 acre campus featuring abundant outdoor learning and play spaces, state-of-the-art athletic facilities, 455-seat theater, performing arts studio, painting studio, ceramics studio with kiln, and more.
The CAIS mission is to inspire and empower learners to embrace Chinese, become their best selves, and contribute to a better world. We work to cultivate new generations of passionate, engaged and reflective learners who lead meaningful and impactful lives across languages and cultures.
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