Seigakuin Atlanta International School
Japanese-style school in Greater Atlanta
Seigakuin Atlanta International School (聖学院アトランタ国際学校, Seigakuin Atoranta Kokusai Gakkō; SAINTS) was an international, private, Christian elementary school located in Peachtree Corners, Georgia, United States, northeast of Atlanta, It is an affiliate to Seigakuin University, and therefore is a Shiritsu zaigai kyōiku shisetsu (私立在外教育施設) or an overseas branch of a Japanese private school. It was the only school in Greater Atlanta to have its curriculum accredited by the Japanese Ministry of Education. From its founding in 1990 until 2003, the school had been located on the property of Oglethorpe University in Brookhaven, DeKalb County. In 2003, the school moved to its final location. From April 2008 until the school's 2018 closure, Minako Oki Ahearn (エイハーンみな子, Eihān Minako) served as the principal.
History
The organization Seigakuin Atlanta International School, lnc. was founded in March 1990, and classes for the SAINTS school began on September 5, 1990. The school was originally located on the property of Oglethorpe University in Brookhaven (previously the North Atlanta census-designated place) in then-unincorporated DeKalb County, in a former public elementary school building. This facility is now occupied by PATH Academy, a charter school.
The SAINTS junior high school opened in 1993.
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