Tsukuba International School

Tsukuba International School
Location
Kamigo 7846-1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 300-2645
Japan
Information
Type Private
Established 1992
Principal Shaney Crawford
Staff 20 full time staff and 7 part time staff
Grades Pre-Kindergarten (age 3) - 10th grade
Enrollment 127 students as of January 2015
Color(s) Blue and green
Mascot Xavier the Robot
Affiliation Japan Council of Independent Schools (JCIS)
Website http://www.tis.ac.jp

Tsukuba International School (つくばインターナショナルスクール, TIS) is a private, non-profit school for English-speaking children in Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan. It was established by the foreign community in 1992 in response to the need for an English education option for foreign students in the area. The school currently includes a preschool, elementary school, middle school, and high school (pre-kindergarten to Grade 10). As of January 2015, the school had 127 students in 13 grades, with 17 full-time teachers and 6 part-time teachers.

Tsukuba International School is a member of the Japan Council of International Schools (since 1998) and is recognized as an incorporated school (学校法人) by the Ibaraki Prefecture government. In November 2011, it received authorization to offer the Primary Years Programme (PYP), and in June 2014, it received authorization to offer the Middle Years Programme (MYP) of the International Baccalaureate (IB). It was the twelfth school in Japan to offer the IB PYP, the 9th to offer the IB MYP, and the 22nd IB World School in the country.

The school is located in the Kamigo region of Tsukuba Science City and the closest stations are Banpaku Kinen Koen on the Tsukuba Express Line and Mitsuma on the Joso Line.

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Coordinates: 36°04′36″N 140°01′23″E / 36.07654°N 140.022984°E