Seigakuin Atlanta International School (聖学院アトランタ国際学校, Seigakuin Atoranta Kokusai Gakkō, SAINTS) was an international, private, Christian elementary school located in Peachtree Corners, Georgia, United States, northeast of Atlanta,[1] It is an affiliate to Seigakuin University,[2] and therefore is a Shiritsu zaigai kyōiku shisetsu (私立在外教育施設) or an overseas branch of a Japanese private school.

[4] From its founding in 1990 until 2003, the school had been located on the property of Oglethorpe University in Brookhaven, DeKalb County.

[7] In the spring of 1995 the school planned to add the ninth grade, the final educational year.

That year, the school announced plans to move to a property in Gwinnett County formerly owned by the First Romanian Baptist Church, in proximity to Doraville.

Minako Ahearn, the executive board director and business manager, said that the school was more centrally located for its students.

The school accepted qualified applicants of all national origins, religions, and racial backgrounds.

Around 1994 the school implemented a policy that prevented prospective applicants who are not entering at the kindergarten level from enrolling if they do not know Japanese.

During that year, Nobuaki Oda, the headmaster, said that the policy was implemented because it was too difficult for the school to teach academic subjects in a language that some students could not understand.

[2] From elementary school, students studied all of the core subjects in Japanese, using the same textbooks as their peers in Japan.

[14] Sherryl Lane, an English-language instructor quoted in Transpacific, stated in 1994 that "Our students are from families interested in their children being fluent in Japanese and English" and that many parents select the school because of its English language program.

[9] Kindergartners learned Bible verses in both languages, while elementary students attended a twenty-minute worship service each morning.

[citation needed] In 2016 the school had about 100 students, with about 50% natively speaking Japanese and the remainder from other backgrounds.

The parents typically resided in the United States for three to four year periods before taking themselves and their families back to Japan.