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foreign languages, music, art, geography, and spelling. The school offers foreign language clubs, a chess club, a film-making club, and several other extracurricular and cocurricular activities. The school's arts programs put on middle school, high school, and lower school musicals every year. Past musicals have included
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Jefferson Independent Day School opened in August 1993 with grades Pre-School-9 and 185 students. The school's first Upper School graduating class was the Class of 1997, and the school has graduated 25 classes, with more than 450 graduates. The school has a college prep liberal arts program,
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