Hartsfield Magnet School for International Studies is an International Baccalaureate (IB) World School offering the Primary Years Programme (PYP). PYP is a curriculum framework for young learners aged 3-12 designed by the IB.  In line with the IB, HMSIS has a focus on stimulating curiosity and inquiry in order to foster a spirit of discovery and enjoyment of learning. The PYP is transdisciplinary, meaning students learn across subject areas while investigating big ideas.
 
Through the 10 attributes of the IB learner profile, our school aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect. With this goal in mind, IB themes of global significance are explored each year from PreK through 5th grade. 

Elementary Schools Offering IB Primary Years Programme:

• Hartsfield Elementary

At Fairview Middle School’s IB Prep Magent program, students discover what they're truly capable of. Their accelerated academic program challenges middle schoolers in all the right ways—rigorous enough to push them forward, supportive enough to help them grow with confidence, not overwhelm.

Students advance across all curricular areas and explore three world languages: Latin, Chinese, and Spanish. They develop the knowledge and skills to excel, yes, but more importantly, they build the confidence to take on whatever comes next.

.  Middle Schools Offering the Iinernational Baccalaureate Prep Magnet Progra:

• Fairview Middle School

The International Baccalaureate program is a rigorous pre-university course of study that meets the needs of the highly motivated secondary school student. Designed as a comprehensive curriculum that allows its graduates to fulfill requirements of the various national systems of education, the IB program is based on the pattern of no single country. It provides students of different linguistic, cultural, and educational backgrounds with the intellectual, social, and critical perspectives necessary for the adult world that lies ahead of them.

The education of the "whole person" takes on a special significance in the twenty-first century when knowledge continues to expand dramatically; when advanced technologies and global economies have tied together vastly different cultures; when the world is bound too closely for provincial ideologies to guide political thought; when to exist in a world community requires appreciation and understanding of cultural diversity; and when cooperation alone will solve global problems. It is essential therefore that academic training provide students with the values and opportunities that will enable them to succeed in the competitive modern world.

All IB Diploma candidates are required to engage in the study of Languages, Sciences, Mathematics, and Humanities in the final two years of their secondary schooling.

The high standards implicit in the IB examinations assume high levels of achievement and preparation at the middle school and Florida’s Pre-IB levels. This program is a deliberate compromise between the preference for specialization in some countries and the emphasis on breadth often preferred in others. The intent is that students should learn how to learn, how to analyze, and how to reach considered conclusions about people, their languages and literature, their ways in society, and the scientific forces of the environment.

Since the International Baccalaureate Office was established in Geneva, Switzerland in 1965, the IB Program has grown to almost 5,000 schools in 150 countries. Working in three official languages (English, French, and Spanish), IB enjoys the respect and support of many governments, colleges, and universities.

High Schools Offering the IB Diploma Programme:

• Rickards High School