Yokohama International School High School Profile 2015-2016

CEEB: 680888

Monna McDiarmid Director of University Counseling

mcdiarmidm@yis.ac.jp

Mark Redlich

IBDP Coordinator High School Vice Principal

Dennis Stanworth Head of Academics

Damien Pitter

Counselor/Academic Advisor Global Coordinator of the GCD

pitterd@yis.ac.jp

John Snowball

Secondary Principal

Craig Coutts Head of School

Yokohama International School (YIS) is an independent, co-educational pre-K-12 day school established in 1924. Although we have a non-selective admission policy and do not offer academic scholarships, our high school programs provide academic rigor, balance and challenge. As we celebrate the success of each student independent of the achievements of other students, we do not rank our class or report grade distributions.

OUR MISSION Our mission is to provide the highest-quality, balanced education to internationally minded students in an inquiring and supportive environment. We seek to inspire students and to provide them with the academic and social skills that will enable them to fulfill their potential as responsible global citizens.

OUR VALUES We are mindful of the needs and rights of others. We are honest in our dealings. We are peaceful in our intentions. We are responsible in our actions. We are supportive of each other.

YIS BY THE NUMBERS

School Year 24 August, 2015 – 17 June, 2016 Contact Days 180 Academic Programs PYP, MYP, IBDP Diplomas Offered YIS High School Diploma, IBDP, Global Citizen Diploma Students pursuing full IBDP 89% Total Enrollment 650 Composition by Nationality 51% foreign national, 26% Japanese bi-national, 23%

Japanese national Student Nationalities 45 High School Enrollment 248 Class of 2016 Enrollment 57 Full-time Faculty 83 Advanced Degree Holders 48 Faculty Nationalities 14

IB World School

Global Citizen Diploma

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Council of International

Schools

East Asia Regional

Conference of Overseas Schools

Japan Council of

International Schools

YOKOHAMA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL 258 Yamate-cho, Naka-ku, Yokohama 231-0862 Japan

WWW.YIS.AC.JP T. +81.45.622.0084 F. +81.45.621.0379

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GLOBAL CITIZEN DIPLOMA The Global Citizen Diploma was founded at YIS in 2012 in order to officially recognize our students’ whole education, including learning in the classroom, in the larger context of school and the world beyond. As an optional diploma, the GCD represents a self-selecting group of our most authentically engaged and successful learners.

Students earn this credential by reflecting on their experiences and documenting their learning in a digital portfolio in Core Elements: Communications, Community Engagement, and Global Perspectives; Extended Elements: Academics, Adventure, Apprenticeship, Arts For Life, Digital Citizenship, Fit For Life, Management, Personal Goal; and Advanced Elements: Advanced Academics, Leadership and Personal Accomplishment. Students curate a showcase of their most profound learning, for which a hyperlink is available from our counselors.

Three levels of recognition include the Global Citizen Certificate, Diploma, and Diploma with Distinction. Across the first three cohorts offered the option of pursuing the GCD, approximately 26% of students completed the diploma, with 4% earning distinction.

Global Citizen Certificate Global Citizen Diploma

Global Citizen Diploma with Distinction

YIS is the founding school of the GCD Consortium, which also includes the American School of Bombay in India, NIST International School in Thailand and Zurich International School in Switzerland. For complete information, please visit globalcitizendiploma.org.

IB DIPLOMA The IB Diploma Program was introduced at YIS in 1986. IBDP students take six subjects, three at the higher level and three at standard level. One subject must be chosen from the first five groups (see below). The sixth subject can be from group 6 or a second subject from groups 1, 2, 3 or 4. Students must also complete Theory of Knowledge and the Extended Essay.

COURSE OFFERINGS FOR CLASS OF 2016 Note: All courses are offered at standard and higher levels unless otherwise indicated. Ab Initio languages are standard level.

* Online IBDP course ** Students must take English in group 1 to meet YIS graduation requirements. Students who take two group 1 courses will be awarded a bilingual diploma.

Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4 Group 5 Group 6 Language A Second Language Individuals and Societies Experimental

Sciences Mathematics The Arts

English Lit English L&L **German L&L **Japanese L&L

Language B French German Japanese Spanish Ab Initio French SL Japanese SL *Spanish SL *Mandarin SL

Economics *Economics Geography History *Information Technology in a Global Society Psychology *Philosophy SL

Biology Chemistry Physics

Mathematics HL Mathematics SL Math Studies SL

*Film SL Visual Arts

Environmental Systems & Societies SL

YIS HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA Students graduate from YIS with a High School Diploma by earning 23 Carnegie credits as follows:

Course Credits Course Credits English 4 Physical Education 3 (over 4 years) Mathematics 3 The Arts 2 Modern Languages 3 Theory of Knowledge 1 (over 3 semesters) Science 3 Design / Technology 1 Social Sciences 3

In addition, students must complete a Senior Research Paper (Extended Essay) in an area of their interest and demonstrate a sustained commitment to service during grades 11 and 12. Note: Most YIS graduates earn 25 or more credits by the end of grade 12. IB DIPLOMA TESTING Over 760 students have taken the IB Diploma since its introduction at YIS, achieving a cumulative pass rate of 94%.

Cohort Percentage of Class Taking IB Diploma

Pass Rate Highest Score Mean IB Diploma Score

Class of 2015 97% 87% 42 33 Class of 2014 95% 96% 41 33 Class of 2013 92% 95% 40 34 Class of 2012 98% 91% 40 32 Class of 2011 88% 98% 45 34

STANDARDIZED TESTING EXTERNAL TESTS Students may choose to take the PSAT in grade 10 or 11. Students in grade 11 or 12 may choose to take the SAT Reasoning Test, SAT Subject Tests, and ACT. Please note that for approximately 70% of the students taking external examinations at YIS, English is either a second or third language.

SAT TESTING (CLASS OF 2015, 32 STUDENTS)

Section Middle 50% Mean Critical Reading 440 - 540 496 Math 510 – 650 576 Writing 430 – 580 514 Composite 1370 - 1780 1586

ACT TESTING (CLASS OF 2015, 23 STUDENTS)

Section Middle 50% Mean English 21– 27 23.8 Math 24 – 31 27.0 Reading 18 – 25 21.5 Science Reasoning 24 – 27 24.5 Composite 23 - 26 24.3

TRANSCRIPT ASSESSMENT POLICY AND GRADING SYSTEM Students are assessed on a 1-7 scale. The highest cumulative GPA in the Class of 2016 at the end of grade 11 was 6.85 out of 7. WEIGHTING AND RANKING POLICY YIS does not weight GPA and does not rank students. All grade 11 and 12 courses are taught as IB Diploma classes. This is also true for students not pursuing the full IB Diploma.

UNIVERSITY ENTRANCE FOR THE CLASS OF 2015 We are proud of the fit between our students and the following colleges and universities at which they were offered admission. Universities marked * represent those at which our students matriculated. Approximately 10% of our students took a gap year.

Asia and the Middle East Ashoka University (India) *New York University, Abu Dhabi (United

Arab Emirates) *SAE Singapore Australia *University of Sydney Canada Acadia University *University of Alberta *University of British Columbia University of Calgary *Dalhousie University McGill University McMaster University University of New Brunswick University of Toronto Trent University University of Victoria Wilfrid Laurier University Europe Amsterdam University College (The

Netherlands) *University of Amsterdam (The

Netherlands) *Ballymaloe Cookery School (Ireland) *Ecole Hoteliere de Lausanne

(Switzerland) Fontys University of Applied Sciences,

(The Netherlands) Glion Institute of Higher Education

(Switzerland) Les Roches International School of Hotel

Management (Switzerland) *Maasticht University (The Netherlands) *Uppsala University (Sweden) Vatel International Business School Hotel

and Tourism Management (Switzerland)

Japan Doshisha University International Christian University *Keio University - Fujisawa Campus Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University *Sophia University *University of Tokyo *Waseda University

United Kingdom University of Aberdeen *Bangor University *University of Bath Birkbeck University of London *University of Bristol *Durham University University of East Anglia University of Edinburgh University of Exeter University of Glasgow Goldsmiths College, University of London *University of Greenwich Hult International Business Imperial College London Keele University *University of Kent King's College London Lancaster University University of Leeds London School of Business and Finance Loughborough University University of Manchester Middlesex University Newcastle University University of Northumbria University of Nottingham University of Reading Royal Holloway, University of London *University of Sheffield University of Southampton University of St. Andrews University of Strathclyde Suffolk University University of Surrey University of Sussex University of Warwick University of the West of England - Bristol University of West London University of Victoria University of Westminster *University of York United States *Arizona State University *Babson College Bennington College *Berklee College of Music Boston University California Institute of the Arts *California Polytechnic State University,

San Luis Obispo

University of California, Berkeley University of California, Davis University of California, Irvine University of California, Los Angeles University of California, San Diego University of California, Santa Cruz Clark University University of Colorado at Boulder Dartmouth College *Duke University The Evergreen State College Gonzaga University Grand Valley State University University of Hawaii at Manoa Hofstra University University of Idaho Illinois College Indiana University at Bloomington Loyola University Chicago University of Massachusetts, Boston University of Michigan University of Minnesota, Twin Cities New England Conservatory of Music New York University The University of North Carolina at Chapel

Hill *Northeastern University *Oregon State University University of Oregon *Parsons The New School for Design *University of Portland Pratt Institute University of Puget Sound Purdue University University of Redlands *Rhode Island School of Design *Saint Mary's College of California University of San Diego San Francisco Art Institute University of San Francisco Savannah College of Art and Design School of the Art Institute of Chicago Seattle University University of Southern California *SUNY College at Brockport The University of Texas, Austin The New School University of Virginia *University of Washington Western Washington University *Willamette University