The school offers full day and half day options for preschool, before-school care, extended care, after school programs, and music lessons on site.
Preschoolers and kindergartners are introduced to the German language as a part of creative and playful activities, so that they are comfortable with bilingual instruction as they enter the first grade.
[2] On Saturdays, the school rents out its facility to a German Immersion Saturday school that is named for Sophie Scholl, a young woman who resisted the Nazis.
[3] In 2006, the 4th, 5th, and 6th graders of the German American School were among 100 winning schools in a poetry contest, and were awarded a free trip to Europe their German poems about soccer.
[4] In 2011, the German-American School opened its SolarLab and solar panel displays to the public.