Okinawa International School
Naha / Nanjo, Okinawa, Japan · Est. 2003
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- Established
- 2003
- Curriculum
- IB (PYP, MYP, DP); International Liberal Arts course in high school
About this school
Okinawa International School (OIS) was founded in Naha in April 2003 as an English-environment childcare centre and added an elementary school in 2006. It became Okinawa's first IB PYP school in 2011, was authorised for the MYP in 2016, and in 2020 was authorised for the Diploma Programme, making it the first and only IB continuum school in Okinawa. In 2019 the elementary and secondary divisions moved to a new campus in Nanjo City.
The school follows an April-to-March calendar and is organised as follows:
- Preschool and kindergarten (from age 2), with Pre-PYP and PYP early years, at the Naha campus
- Elementary (Grades 1–6) on the PYP
- Middle years (Grades 7–10) on the MYP
- Grades 11–12 on the IB Diploma, with an International Liberal Arts course as an alternative
Inquiry learning at OIS is built around three themes: human rights and peace, living in harmony with nature, and multicultural understanding. The Nanjo campus has a library, chemistry lab and music room, and school buses run on set routes. OIS has a sister school in Taiwan and runs short-term and summer programmes.
