New dorms in US take shape for more students

As an increasing number of private high schools in the United States vie for Chinese students, a for-profit academy in Wisconsin has noticed the huge economic footprint of these international students and plans to invest as much as $2.7 million on converting a hotel into a new dormitory for them.

Wisconsin International Academy Inc in Milwaukee purchased a budget hotel with 127 rooms, a restaurant and a banquet center from the Greenfield, Wisconsin-based Wauwatosa Hotel Group.

Matt Gibson, the academy's principal, told local media he expects to have 150 students at the beginning of the 2014-15 school year, and the new facility will house 20 to 30 students for a summer program.