Students immersed in Spanish at Missoula International School - Missoulian article published in the October 11, 2010 edition

Read a 2010 Missoulian article reporting on the Missoula International School now leasing Prescott School. 

Students immersed in Spanish at Missoula International School

Note that MIS was started in a basement of a home and now has 145 full time equivalent students.  This enrollment increase would NOT have occurred if MIS had not received a sweetheart lease  of Prescott School begun in 2004.  The use of a public school by a private school is not in the best interests of the public school district which has been explained over and over in meetings and in writing since 2004.The closure of Prescott School and the subsequent lease approval and extensions has been allowed by DISLOYAL MISSOULA COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLTRUSTEES.

Below is information which reporter Jamie Kelly included on Missoula International School.


Missoula International School

Address: 1100 Harrison St.

Mascot: None

Year Founded: 1995

Enrollment: 160 (145 full-time equivalent)

Full-time (or FT-equivalent) teachers: 15

Student-teacher ratio: 10-to-1

Head of school: Julie Lennox (15th year)

Notable feature: MIS, which began as a preschool program in a living room, now occupies the former Prescott School, a property of the Missoula County Public Schools district.

 

The article reporting on Missoula International School was part of a

series of articles written by Jamie Kelly named "Hall Passages". A

description is quoted below.

 

Editor’s note: “Hall Passages” is a weekly education feature in the

Missoulian. Each week on a rotating basis, K-12 education

reporter Jamie Kelly visits a private or public school in the

Missoula Valley to see what’s new in the halls and walls of our l

earning institutions. This week, Kelly spent some time at the

Missoula International School."

 

Prescott School Missoula would have liked to have read more

about the lease and it's drawbacks in the article. This information

would have been of great interest to Missoula taxpayers as they are

virtually subsidizing the private school.