Osaka International School of Kwansei Gakuin (OIS, 関西学院大阪インターナショナルスクール) is a co-educational

international school International schools are private schools that promote education in an international environment or framework. Although there is no uniform definition or criteria, international schools are usually characterised by a multinational student body an ...

, located in Minoh,

Osaka Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Osaka Prefecture has a population of 8,778,035 () and has a geographic area of . Osaka Prefecture borders Hyōgo Prefecture to the northwest, Kyoto Prefecture to the north, Nara ...

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. This institution educates students from kindergarten (age 4-5) through to grade 12. It is accredited by the

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and offers three

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(IB) programs: Primary Years Programme (PYP), Middle Years Programme (MYP), and Diploma Programme (DP). The government of

classifies the school as a " miscellaneous school". OIS shares its campus, facilities, and a number of programs with its sister school, Senri International School (SIS), a grade 7-12 Japanese curriculum school primarily for students who have lived abroad. Together, the schools are known as the "Senri and Osaka International Schools of Kwansei Gakuin". Secondary school students from both schools share classes in physical education, music, and art. Senior students in English and Japanese can take courses in either one of the schools. Students from both schools also join together for athletic teams, drama casts, choirs, bands, and orchestra groups. Founded in 1991, This institution is a member of the Japan Council of International Schools (JCIS), the Council of International Schools (CIS) and the East Asia Regional Council of Schools (EARCOS).

Student body

As of 2016, about 33% of the school's population of Senri and Osaka International School body is made up of returnees. It is the third-largest English/European language international school in Japan and the largest school of such a field of study in the

Kansai region The or the lies in the southern-central region of Japan's main island Honshū. The region includes the prefectures of Nara, Wakayama, Kyoto, Osaka, Hyōgo and Shiga, often also Mie, sometimes Fukui, Tokushima and Tottori. The metropol ...

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educating kansai

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. ''The Journal of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan'' (''Jānaru''), Volume 40, Issues 7-12.

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(ACCJ), 2003. p. 42.

References

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Senri and Osaka International Schools of Kwansei Gakuin
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