Since our inception, TIS has always been truly international, forward thinking and striving to improve.
Here is our story…
The students would learn lifelong skills, concepts and values that could be easily transferred across the world and would equip them for a rapidly changing, international future. TIS would serve the many mobile, expatriate families in Tokyo.
Tokyo International School expanded into Primary Years Programme and moved to the larger Meguro Honcho Campus.
TIS moved to a new campus to accommodate its enrollment which was then 104 students.
Now with 190 students TIS expanded into Middle Years Programme.
With student enrollment at 235 students TIS moved into Nankai Campus rented from Minato-ku.
TIS received accredited school status by the Council of International Schools, the hallmark in international education.
TIS became authorized to deliver the International Baccalaureate (IB), Primary Years Programme and received the accolade as an IB World School.
TIS became authorized to deliver the International Baccalaureate (IB), Middle Years Programme.
TIS moved into its new purpose-built campus nestled in the embassy district of central Tokyo.
TIS obtained Gakko-Hojin (Incorporated Educational Institution) and not-for-profit status. Ikuko Tsuboya Newell became Chair of the TIS School Board.
In August 2024, TIS started offering Grade 10 at our current campus, thus being able to offer all five years of the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme (IB MYP).
We are proud to be an IB Diploma Programme Candidate School. In August 2025, we will expand to include Grade 11, followed by Grade 12 in August 2026, allowing us to serve students from Kindergarten to Grade 12.
In August 2026, TIS will move to its new home in Takanawa Gateway City.
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Tokyo International School is a non profit school, which is accredited by the Council of International Schools and the New England Association of Schools and Colleges.
We are a fully authorized, International Baccalaureate World School, catering for students from Kindergarten 1 (four years old) to Grade 8 (fourteen years old).