About the Campaign

Goals & Priorities

Our plan centers around five goals:

DESIGN and build new Maternelle and Lower School spaces

Establish a COMMUNITY campus with play at its center

DEEPEN the educational capabilities of our campus

Prepare for future enrollment GROWTH

Enhance SAFETY, parking, and traffic flow

Our Priorities

Facilities for Our Future

This campaign will support French International’s master site plan, including new Maternelle and Lower School buildings designed to support a purposeful learning environment, including:

  • Intentional, age-appropriate classrooms for Maternelle and Lower School

  • Flexible learning spaces for mixed-age, collaborative educational activities

  • Authentic connections to the natural world that promote indoor and outdoor learning

  • Purposefully designed STEAM spaces for hands-on exploration

A United Campus

With the recent acquisition of several adjacent properties along Cornell, we will transform the property to unify our school campus, enhance campus safety, and improve the student experience, including:

  • Centering students and revitalizing recess and play areas

  • Removing traffic from the center of campus

  • Enhancing green spaces throughout campus

Enhancing the Community Experience

Our transformed campus will create opportunities for the community to cross paths, gather, and cultivate the global connectedness that defines French International.

  • Creating all-school gathering spaces indoors and outdoors to host more assemblies, cross-classroom and division collaboration, and performances

  • Building rooms and areas for parents, faculty and staff to connect and build community

  • Altering the flow of traffic to make parking, drop-offs, and pick-ups easier

  • Moving students and classrooms into the center of campus and creating a “front door” of campus for administrators to welcome guests

Without French International, we would never have been able to offer our children such a global upbringing in Portland, Oregon.”

–sophia skaar, french international Parent & trustee