Wellspring Learning Community

Wellspring Learning Community is privately owned and operates under the guidance of a governing board of international and local members, advisory members and a head of school. The school currently has a student body of 919 students and around 200 faculty and staff members. Wellspring graduated its first senior class in June of 2016 and has earned a 100% Brevet pass rate (local government exam at the end of Grade 9) since students first began sitting for the exams in 2014. Wellspring is the first and currently the only International Baccalaureate Continuum World School in Lebanon authorized to offer three International Baccalaureate (IB) programmes in English: Primary Years (PYP), Middle Years (MYP) and the Diploma Programme (DP) along with the local Lebanese National Curriculum for Brevet students and the Life Sciences Lebanese track for seniors. All students follow the PYP and MYP through Grade10 using international and Lebanese content. All students from Nursery through Grade 10 take Arabic as either language and literature or as host country language acquisition. PYP students take French as a third language until MYP Grade 6 when students continue with either French or Spanish (international students) as the required third language until the completion of Grade 10. The school was awarded CIS / NEASC accreditation in January 2018.

In Grades 11 and 12 all students who are eligible to enroll into the school’s international IBDP are welcome to join. Lebanese students are eligible to go to the IB DP once they have passed Grade 9 Brevet official exams. All students who satisfy Wellspring’s Grade 12 graduation requirements are awarded a Wellspring High School Diploma that is distinct from the IB Diploma and the Lebanese Baccalaureate diploma.

“Wellspring Learning Community aims to establish an inquiry-based learning environment in which students from diverse backgrounds are given every opportunity to realize their social, emotional and academic capacities and talents. Our students will become confident, resourceful, creative, caring, responsible and thinking citizens prepared to use their education to contribute in meaningful ways toward improving society, both locally and internationally”.

Founded in 2007, the school’s original Beirut campus is located near Lebanon’s National Museum and the secondary campus at Ain El Roumaneh. Both locations are historically significant where diverse political, social-economic and religious backgrounds coexist to form bonds of tolerance, peace and cooperation. Wellspring Learning Community is a co-educational, non- selective, non-religious day school where English is the language of instruction. The school serves local Lebanese and international students who come from diverse cultural and economic backgrounds with 59 different nationalities and several different religions represented.

The school places great emphasis upon diverse extra-curricular programs that offer students artistic, sporting, musical and academic opportunities during and beyond the school day. Activities include options such as Model United Nations (local and International), student council, drama productions, participation in international theater festivals, sports (basketball, soccer, badminton, tennis, swimming, table tennis), technology classes (VEX Robotics, App Development, etc.), choir, music, Wellspring’s Week Without Walls and more.

The school’s Diploma Programme is open to all Grade 11 students who are eligible to join. Wellspring believes each student should be given the opportunity to earn the full diploma. The school is not selective. Students are given the option by midyear to move into Courses if they choose to do so.

Students who move to Courses will earn a High School diploma and may earn possible IB credit for an individual subject if successful in passing the IB subjectexam.

Wellspring Learning Community City Centre Campus
Lamma Street, Ain El Roumaneh Area
+961 1 283683