Americana Chinese International School

An American regional accreditation of the institution, working since 1962 and covering some 5,500 schools in California, the Pacific and Asia. It judges the whole school: a self-study, then a team visit. It gives the same status to supplementary and virtual programmes, so the category of an entry is worth checking separately.

What the badge means for this school. The school has been through this organisation's accreditation. It was judged as a whole: governance, safeguarding, staff, premises, teaching. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it.

A group with its own site, aegcm.com; all of its schools are in Chiang Mai. The site gives two dates that do not agree: the "About Us" section writes "Ambassador Education was founded in 2005", while the footer and the home page say "Providing Education in Chiang Mai for 30 Years" and "For over 30 years", and we give both. The "Our Schools" section lists six schools: Unity Concord International School (named the flagship), Americana Chinese International School, Ambassador Bilingual School, Ambassador Bilingual Academy, British Concordance International School (opened in September 2022) and Chiang Mai Educational Center. The programmes declared are American, British and Thai-English bilingual, from PreK to grade 12; pupils, in the words of the site, come from more than 30 countries. The site does not name owners or founders and nowhere says whether the group owns these schools or manages them, so ownership, management and franchise cannot be told apart from it.

What this means for this school. The network owns or operates the school. Its accreditation and programme authorisation the school obtains separately, in its own name.