Saint Maur International School
Naka-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan · Est. 1872
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- Established
- 1872
- Curriculum
- Montessori, IPC, Cambridge IGCSE, IB Diploma
About this school
Saint Maur International School was founded in 1872 by Mère Mathilde Raclot and the Sisters of the Infant Jesus, the first Catholic sisters to arrive in Japan, and is regarded as the oldest international school in Asia. It still stands on its original hilltop site in Yamate overlooking Yokohama port. The school kept teaching through a typhoon, two earthquakes, including the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, and the Second World War, and has welcomed students of all nationalities and faiths from the start.
Today Saint Maur is co-educational and serves children from age 2½ to Grade 12. It introduced international Montessori education in Japan in 1973, and the programme continues from Montessori pre-school through elementary, Cambridge IGCSE in the middle years and the IB Diploma in high school. The school's website shows links with CIS, NEASC, the IB, Cambridge, the IPC and JCIS.
The campus has five main buildings, including a fine arts centre with an auditorium and chapel, a science centre opened in 2011 with four labs and robotics, a Montessori and early years centre, and the Cougar Café activity and sports centre opened in 2021. An outdoor sports ground is three minutes away.
