British International School of Chicago, Lincoln Park vs. Gold Coast Prep School

BISC Lincoln Park is a private, international school for children ages 15 months - 11 years old. We provide an individualized, international curriculum that allows each student to reach their potential, explore their passions and become leaders.

Our faculty views each child as an individual preparing them with 21st-century skills and an ever-evolving world through hands-on learning and leadership opportunities.

A primary-focused learning environment ensures each child reaches their potential before moving into a secondary school environment.

GCP Preschool-JK program provides a loving and caring experience inspired by Reggio Emilia approach to early education.

GCP provides a rigorous classical liberal arts education that teaches children to think. GCP is unique in that it provides a classical liberal arts education beginning in elementary school.

The GCP motto, Sapere Aude-Dare to Know, represents both the process and the endpoint of a classical liberal arts education. Rather than waiting until high school or college, GCP students form the mindset for critical thinking and learn cultural literacy from the very beginning of their educational journey.

They are taught the integrative nature of knowledge. Their broad education includes history, literature, art, and the systematic natures of language (English, Latin and Spanish), as well as math, science, and logic.

This rigorous curriculum, with a well defined program for the development of critical thinking, is designed to create the global leaders of tomorrow.

The children`s education is further enhanced with both national and international travel.