Wellspring Learning Community

Wellspring has two Beirut campuses: Mathaf Campus is on Mathaf Main Street, on the border between Badaro and Achrafieh, in front of the National Museum and the Security General, in the grounds of the Church of Our Lady of the Annunciation on Pierre Gemayel Street; City Centre Campus is located in Ain El Roumaneh, on a side street off Lamaa Lamaa Main Street near BLOM Bank.

IB Continuum: PYP, MYP and DP. Mathaf Campus (PYP) serves Nursery–Grade 5; City Centre Campus (MYP and DP) serves Grades 6–12.

IB Continuum World School

59 nationalities represented; mix of local Lebanese and international students.

Learning support for all years with an inclusive IB-aligned approach; professional staff include social-emotional-behavioral/SEN counselors, academic support teachers, and college/career counselors.

Lebanon

non-religious

Bus service is available; registration is via the Bus Registration Form.

The school offers the International Baccalaureate (IB) Continuum comprising Primary Years Programme (PYP), Middle Years Programme (MYP) and Diploma Programme (DP). PYP is delivered at the Mathaf Campus for Nursery to Grade 5, while MYP and DP are taught at the City Centre Campus for Grades 6–12. The Diploma Programme includes a Core consisting of Theory of Knowledge (TOK), Creativity, Activity and Service (CAS), and the Extended Essay (EE). In Group 2 Language Acquisition, Arabic B is available for students with a background in the language, and French and Spanish are offered at Ab Initio level. The Diploma Programme was authorized at Wellspring in May 2014 and the first DP cohort was anticipated to graduate in 2016; the two IB continuum campuses are Mathaf (PYP) and City Centre (MYP/DP).

Approximately 7.3:1 (923 students to 127 faculty).

The Diploma Programme is a passport to higher education. In Lebanon, a student who is exempt from the requirements of the Lebanese Baccalaureate and who earns the full IB Diploma will be eligible to enter an American university as a sophomore if the SAT admission requirements are met. In the United States and Canada, most universities admit IB Diploma graduates and some may award freshman credit for DP courses. In the United Kingdom and other European countries, universities accept the IB Diploma for admission, with varying entry requirements.

Wellspring provides social-emotional-behavioral/special educational needs counselors to support students' social and emotional development. The school pursues an inclusive approach that recognizes each student's cognitive, social, emotional and physical needs, with inclusion viewed as an ongoing process. Counseling and student supports are designed to optimize social, emotional and academic capacities within the IB continuum. Counselors guide students through difficult or stressful periods to support wellbeing and collaborate with teachers, parents and learning support staff while keeping confidentiality as appropriate.

Wellspring offers learning support for all years for students with diverse learning needs and follows an inclusion approach, with case-by-case planning for the best learning outcome. The school provides professional staff across learning support, including social-emotional-behavioral/special educational needs counselors, academic support teachers, and college and career counselors, with a commitment to confidentiality and a safe learning environment.

The school teaches English, Arabic, French and Spanish.

The counselors guide students through difficult or stressful periods to support wellbeing, with counseling available as individual or group sessions in a safe counseling space where students can share thoughts and feelings.

The school maintains a Child Protection Policy and safeguarding practices, including confidential counseling and collaboration with significant adults in a student's life to develop appropriate intervention plans; welfare and safety policies include emergency preparedness and regular safeguarding measures.

General Guidelines
Wellspring welcomes applications from parents who support the school's mission. Wellspring serves international and local children, operates as a non-sectarian community, and has no political affiliations. When considering applicants, the school assesses both the suitability of the IB programme for the prospective student and the availability of vacancies. Where learning support is required, the needs must be accommodated in the classroom. The school does not have facilities to accommodate students with physical disabilities or severe learning difficulties. Students are expected to be reading, comprehending and writing at their grade level. Applicants will be interviewed by the Admissions Director, subject leaders, and teachers. Parents and students will typically meet with two or more teachers who will assess English literacy skills (verbal, reading, writing, comprehension), Arabic literacy skills (for native speakers only), and mathematical literacy skills (including age-appropriate computation, problem solving, reasoning and analysis). There are additional requirements for applicants into the IB Diploma Programme.

Admissions Process – 5 steps
1. Application Form
The first step in the admissions process is the submission of a completed application form and relevant documentation online to Wellspring's Open Apply page by the parent(s)/guardian(s) with a $100 non-refundable application fee.
2. Application review
Once all records have been collected, the application will be reviewed and parents/guardians will be notified whether they have been granted an interview.
3. Interview
All students are required to attend an interview after all material has been submitted. At least one parent is required to attend the interview with the students. The interview appointment is not an indicator of eventual acceptance.
4. Acceptance
Acceptance decisions, or updates on the status of your application will normally be released within three school days of the student interview.
5. Payment of Entrance Fees
For all new students accepted before June, a non-refundable entrance fee of $5,525, which is the non-refundable capital development fee $2,525 and the nonrefundable auxiliary fee $3,000 (paid in cash USD only or by international wire transfer if from outside Lebanon), along with the non-refundable enrollment fee of LBP 30,000,000 deductible from the tuition fees will be required within one week of the acceptance letter date in order to reserve the place up until the first tuition payment is due in June. Tuition installments not paid by this deadline may result in a new student's acceptance to be moved to the waiting list, regardless of whether or not you have paid the non-refundable registration fee. All applicants accepted after June will be required to submit the 1st full tuition installment in order to reserve a place for next academic year starting in September. Late applicants accepted after the first day of classes will be required to submit the first full tuition installment before the first day the new student attends classes. All tuition fees are non-refundable once the student has attended his/her first class. Dates and fees might be subject to change. For Tuition Fees 2025-2026.

There is a waiting list mechanism. Acceptance decisions or updates on status may be moved to the waiting list if the stated deadlines for payment are not met; specifically, tuition installments not paid by the deadline may result in the acceptance being moved to the waiting list.