International Baccalaureate The international baccalaureate or IB program is a great program that goes through 1 12 grade and offers an ib diploma that is very well looked at all around the world It is broken down into 3 different age groups The diploma program is for students aged 16 19 The middle years program is for students 11 16 years old and of coarse the primary years program which focuses on children ages 3 10 The IB program was founded in Switzerland in 1968 It is a non profit organization It is specially designed for a child to find his or her special approach to learning It lets a child try many different learning aspects to fully realize the potential one has All of the classes are tied together in some way The teachers work together to match classes They try very hard to combine off classes like science and English The IB program is a working programs those strides to make every child smarter