Cheongna Dalton School
| Cheongna Dalton School | |
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| Address | |
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344 Cheomdandong-ro, Seo-gu (22742) Incheon, Incheon, Seo District South Korea |
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| Information | |
| Type | Foreign School |
| Established | 2010 |
| Principal | Kwangmin Park |
| Grades | Preschool - 12 |
| Campus | Incheon |
| Houses | Phoenix, Korea, Dalton, Cheongna |
| Student Union/Association | Cheongna Dalton School Student Council |
| Color(s) | Navy blue and Gold |
| Athletics | CDS Basketball Team, CDS Soccer Team, CDS High School Varsity Sports |
| Mascot | Phoenix |
| Nickname | CDS |
| Accreditation | WASC |
| Newspaper | CDS Monthly Newsletter (compiled by the Student Council) |
| Yearbook | CDS Yearbook (compiled by students in the Yearbook extracurricular activities) |
| Website | www |
Cheongna Dalton School (CDS) is a secular international private college preparatory school situated in Cheongna, Incheon, South Korea offering an American curriculum following the Dalton Plan in an English-only setting.
Cheongna Dalton School first opened its doors to students on September 1, 2011 and has classes from pre-kindergarten to the 12th grade.
The present 46,200m2 (11.4 acres or 497.292 sq ft) site was selected to provide easy access to Korean families as well as expatriate families living in the Incheon area. Conveniently located in the Cheongna area (part of the western coast city of Incheon), CDS is about twenty-five minutes east of the Incheon International Airport and is approximately 1km south of the Cheongna International City subway station. The city of Cheongna has been designated an Incheon Free Economic Zone (IFEZ) to transform this area into a hub for logistics, international business, leisure, and tourism for the Northeast Asian region.
The school provides the dormitory life and day-school but the elementary students could not use the dorms. They share the certain philosophy with Dalton School in New York and they accepted the Dalton Plan that Helen Parkhurst established during her careers. They got an accreditation from WASC and the school provides the AP system which could further develop the students’ educations (Si-Jeong Yu).
The Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC), based in California, accredited Cheongna Dalton School for a six-year term on July 2, 2012. As a condition of attending the school, a student is required to have at least one parent who holds a foreign passport, or the student must have been out of the country of Korea for more than 1,095 days at the time of enrollment.
The school has computers for student use, and all classrooms and facilities are fully networked. There are two libraries and several science laboratories. The auditorium, known as the Dalton Hall, is used for parent and teacher functions, fine arts productions and concerts, and it is fully equipped with lighting and sound systems. Music students are offered a range of facilities from orchestra and choir rooms to sound-proofed practice rooms. Athletic facilities include a gymnasium, an equestrian course with four horses, a tennis court, a heated swimming pool, a soccer field with grass turf, and a dance room. At the entrance of the school, there is a golden statue of Founder of Bongduk Education Foundation, Madame Bongduk Lee (1921~2010). The campus consists of the High School block, the Middle School Block, the "First Program"(Elementary), soccer field and residential facilities include the dormitory for students, and the Town House and Guesthouse for foreign teachers.
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