Katoh Gakuen Gyoshu Bilingual Program 2015-1016 1361 Nakamiyo Okanomiya, Numazu City, Shizuoka, 410-0011, Japan Phone 81-55-924-3322 Fax 81-55-924-3352 Home-page: www.bi-lingual.com President Vice-Principal Vice-Principal DP Coordinator Dr. Masahide Katoh Dr. Makoto Kubota Dr. Mike Bostwick Mr. Craig Sutton College Admissions Counselors Mr. Craig Sutton Mrs. Nobuko Wendfeldt
[email protected] The School School Name: Katoh Gakuen Gyoshu Junior and Accreditation/authorization: Japanese Ministry of Education Senior High School (MEXT) and International Baccalaureate (IB) Location: Numazu, Shizuoka, Japan Curriculum (all students): Grades 7-12 English Immersion Program School Grades: Junior High: 7-9; Senior High: 10-12 Junior and senior high school MEXT curriculum Grades 7-10 IB Middle Years Programme (MYP) School Year: Trimester; April-March Grades 11-12 IB Diploma Programme (DP) Founded in 1982, Gyoshu Junior and Senior High School is a private Japanese school accredited by the Japanese Ministry of Education (MEXT) and authorized by the International Baccalaureate (IB). We have long been at the forefront of education here in Japan: creating Japan’s first Japanese-English bilingual K-12 program, being the first school in Japan to receive IB Middle Years Programme (MYP) authorization and becoming the first Japanese school authorized to teach the IB Diploma Programme (DP). All of our IBDP graduates enroll in post-secondary institutions. Between forty to sixty percent of our students enroll in colleges outside of Japan. The rest attend domestic colleges. At the high school level, with the exception of Japanese and Physical Education, all classes are taught in English by certified teachers from a variety of English speaking countries.