The Beaconhouse group is an international private school system with over 195,000 students in nine countries and is possibly the largest school system of its kind in the world. Established in November 1975 as the Les Anges Montessori Academy for toddlers, Beaconhouse has since grown into a global network of private schools, institutes, and universities, imparting distinctive and meaningful education to students from pre-school to post-graduation. Of these, 82,000 study at the groupÕs flagship network, the Beaconhouse School System, while the remaining students are mostly enrolled at The Educators, a parallel school network operated by the group with over 104,000 students. The Beaconhouse of today is thus much more than just a local school. Through distinct and independent divisions in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Thailand, UAE and the UK, it caters to the education and training needs of a large and diverse group of individuals of varying ages, socio-economic backgrounds, and nationalities, with its activities also extending beyond education in some countries. Beaconhouse's contributions to education were internationally recognised in 1996 when the World Bank Group, in its first ever investment in private education, financed the construction of several new Beaconhouse campuses. At that point, Beaconhouse had already started collaborating with institutions worldwide.