BASIS Independent Fremont

Specialties

BASIS Independent Fremont is the fourth to join the family of independent schools quickly establishing some of the very best private schools in the nation. Opening Fall 2016, BASIS Independent Fremont will serve students in Kindergarten-​Grade 5 and act as a feeder for our flagship middle and high school program in the Valley, BASIS Independent Silicon Valley, which serves students in Grades 5 – 12.

History

Established in 1998.

BASIS began as a visionary venture in 1998 when Dr. Michael and Olga Block, world-​class economics academicians, found that students in their classrooms who were educated outside of the United States were not only more prepared for the challenges faced in college than their American counterparts, but were simply «better» at being students. Digging further, they found that low expectations of American students led to a lack of curricular substance in U.S. classrooms. Creating a brand new school in Tucson, AZ, they discovered that American students thrived when challenged, rising to and surpassing the best students in the world. Thus the BASIS. ed revolution was born!

What began as a single campus in Tucson has grown to a unique, high-​achieving, and unprecedented network of schools — four independent schools in Brooklyn, Silicon Valley, McLean, and now Fremont, an international school in Shenzhen, China, and 16 charter schools across the U.S.