Seisen International School
Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · Est. 1962
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- Established
- 1962
- Curriculum
- IB (PYP, MYP, DP), Montessori kindergarten
About this school
Seisen International School is a Catholic school run in the tradition of the Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Its story as an international school dates to 1962, when the sisters' kindergarten moved from Yoyogi to Gotanda. The school moved to its current campus in Yoga, Setagaya, in 1972 and graduated its first class of 18 students in 1974.
Seisen serves girls from kindergarten to Grade 12, with a co-educational kindergarten for ages 2 to 5 that includes Montessori education. In 1986 it became the first girls' school in Asia to offer the IB Diploma; it added the PYP in 2007 and the MYP in 2019, becoming an IB continuum school. The school is accredited by CIS and NEASC and belongs to JCIS.
Students come from about 40 nationalities, and 99 teachers from 23 countries give a student–faculty ratio of about 7:1. School life emphasises leadership, spirituality and service, along with the arts, athletics and a women in science and technology programme. Seisen is linked to sister schools founded by the Handmaids in 22 countries, including Nagano Seisen in Japan.
