Canadian Academy
Higashinada-ku, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan · Est. 1913
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- Established
- 1913
- Curriculum
- IB (PYP, MYP, DP)
About this school
Canadian Academy (CA) opened on 13 September 1913 as the Canadian Methodist Academy, with thirteen children of missionary families, and adopted its current name in 1917. Its boarding programme dates from 1929, when the first dormitory was dedicated on the school's original Nagamine hillside campus. The school closed during the Second World War, reopened afterwards, and in 1990 moved to a purpose-designed campus on Rokko Island in Kobe.
CA became an IB Diploma school in 1980 and added the Middle Years and Primary Years Programmes in 2011, completing the IB continuum. Divisions are Early Childhood, Elementary (Grades 1–5), Middle School (Grades 6–8) and High School (Grades 9–12), supported by university counselling, EAL, learning support and counselling services. The school is accredited by CIS and WASC and belongs to JCIS.
The nine-acre campus holds all divisions and the boarding houses, with girls' and boys' dormitories, two theatres, two full-size gymnasiums, two sports fields, a central atrium with a café, a library and a tea ceremony room. The community is internationally diverse, with families from many countries.
