Hokkaido International School
Toyohira-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan · Est. 1958
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- Established
- 1958
- Curriculum
- IPC, IMYC, American college-prep high school with AP
About this school
Hokkaido International School (HIS) opened in 1958 as Hokkaido American School with 12 children from missionary families, and took its current name in 1962. It received WASC accreditation in 1982, added a high school from 1988, and moved to its present campus in Hiragishi, Toyohira-ku, in 1995. In 2012 it opened a satellite campus, HIS Niseko.
The Sapporo campus runs from Early Years (ages 3–4) through Grade 12. Early Years classrooms are inspired by Reggio Emilia, the elementary school uses the International Primary Curriculum, and the middle school follows the International Middle Years Curriculum. High school is a Western-style college-preparatory programme with Advanced Placement courses such as AP Capstone, Calculus, sciences, history, studio art and Japanese. Outdoor education is part of the secondary curriculum.
HIS is the only boarding school in Hokkaido, with a dormitory for high school students in Grades 9–12. The school year has about 180 days on an A/B block schedule. Upper-school classes average around 17 students, and teachers come from the USA, Canada, Australia, Peru, Bulgaria and Japan.
