The Dewey Schools Cau Giay

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The Dewey Schools - a Vietnamese network of bilingual all-through schools with an American programme, head office in Hanoi. The network traces its history to 2011, when the first Sakura Schools kindergarten opened in the Cau Giay district; the first school under the name The Dewey Schools opened in 2016 in the same place. After that: 2017 - a campus in Duong Kinh in Hai Phong and a training centre for Montessori teachers, 2020 - the Tay Ho Tay campus, 2024 - The Dewey Ocean Park. On its own page about itself the network gives four figures: 7,500 pupils in its kindergartens and schools, 14 sites, 145 universities its graduates have entered, and five programmes. There are four school campuses under the name The Dewey Schools: Cau Giay, Tay Ho Tay and Ocean Park in Hanoi, and Hai Phong; the remaining sites within the 14 are Sakura Montessori kindergartens. There are five programmes: two integrated with the Vietnamese leaving certificate, two international ones with the American certificate, and the International Baccalaureate; only the Tay Ho Tay campus holds IB World School status for the DP and MYP programmes. The academic partner of all the campuses is Mount Vernon School in the United States, and the campuses belong to CIS. In its own news the network calls itself part of Edufit Education Group; it does not describe the legal construction, and ownership cannot be told from management or franchise by the website.

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