US-Sino Mandarin Investment Company is the operating company for Keystone Academy.
Keystone Academy will be opening in the Shunyi district of Beijing in the fall of 2014. Keystone promises to be a unique and exciting school option for families in China.The school will serve students, grades one through 12, with a bilingual curriculum in the primary years and more intensive instruction in English as students progress through the program. Keystone will include a boarding school option in Grades Seven and Eight, and will require boarding in Grades 10-12.
The Academy will take from compelling Chinese and American instructional techniques of inquiry-based learning, critical-thinking, and creative problem solving in a rigorous intellectual environment to prepare students for the challenges of the modern integrated world. Keystone\'s academic program will be international in scope, with a central curriculum thread that focuses on Chinese identity, language, culture, and history.
Through Keystone\'s residential program, students will develop the values, close relationships and independence that are essential for positive leadership and success. The Academy will apply Western educational approaches in a Chinese context for a model of true cultural fusion and international understanding. The majority of students will be Chinese, but the school will also have a healthy representation of other nationalities.
