Midtown International School ceased operations effective April 3rd, 2026. 

This is a deeply difficult moment for students, families, faculty, staff, and the broader community. After careful review of the financial circumstances, the Board determined that continued operations were not sustainable.  Faculty and staff were paid through that date, but are no longer employees of MIS.  

We recognize the disruption this has caused all members of our community.  Currently, our primary focus is on supporting students and families through this transition, while winding down the school’s operations promptly and thoughtfully.  This process is being overseen by the Board (all of whom are volunteers serving without compensation) and a small number of other volunteer financial and legal advisors that are working to try to help us minimize the disruption for our community members and facilitate our students’ transition to new schools.

Yes. MIS is an accredited school, and students have met the required instructional time for the complete academic year.

• All students will receive full academic credit for the year.

• Report cards (K-8) and Transcripts (9-12) will reflect a full year of completed coursework.

• Seniors will receive their diplomas as planned.

• K-11 students will be able to enroll in a new school in the fall without loss of progress.

• The above statements remain true regardless of how families choose to spend the remaining days of April and May 2026. No additional school hours or credit recovery is required to complete the 2025-2026 school year.

Grades are available on MyMIS now and have also been preserved as part of each student’s official academic record.

We are finalizing an agreement with a long-term custodian for MIS student transcripts and other records moving forward. 

We will share detailed instructions shortly on the process to obtain transcripts and other records.  We anticipate providing that guidance by April 17.

Yes.

Teachers have agreed to support students with letters of recommendation. MIS will help facilitate this process as much as possible. If you want to request a recommendation from a teacher and do not have their contact information, please send a request to info@misatl.org and identify your student’s name and the teacher with whom you want to be connected, and we can help route requests to teachers directly.

One of our primary priorities in winding down the school is to provide students and parents with all the support we can to transition to a new school with as little disruption as possible.  Please recognize that, because MIS no longer has full-time employees, we are very limited in the assistance we can provide.

• We have contacted schools across the greater Metro Atlanta area.  We have and are continuing to encourage schools to make accommodations to admit our students on an expedited basis.  

• We have shared the initial lists of schools (and relevant contact information) that have expressed a willingness to consider admitting MIS students on an expedited basis.  We will continue to update this list and, when possible, provide details on the admissions process that schools have set up to accommodate MIS students.

• Many schools are making accommodations given the circumstances.  We encourage you to contact the schools you are considering in the first instance.  If there are specific questions you have that you believe can best or only be addressed by MIS, please send those questions to: info@misatl.org.  We only have the resources to monitor this email on a weekly basis at this time.  We will aim to respond to specific questions you send to this email address within one week.

We are grateful for the flexibility and support from the broader school community.

We understand this is an important concern, but we are not in a position to provide an update at this time.  Our primary focus is on assisting our students and families in their transition to a new school while trying to wind down our operations quickly and orderly, which we expect will be our primary focus for the rest of April and most or all of May.  We expect to provide a further update to you on tuition and deposit refunds by the end of May.  We will not be making any refunds of any tuition payments until we provide everyone with an update