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WELCOME TO OUR SCHOOL FEATURE PAGE ON YONGSAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL IN SEOUL, KOREA. (Formerly International Christian School of Seoul, Korea)
Being NICS' largest school is not only an honor, but a huge responsibility. This year ICS Seoul has a record enrollment of 520 students, the third-largest private international school in Seoul . The heart of the leadership of ICS Seoul is to develop a “flagship” school for NICS, and as auspicious as it may sound, one of the best schools in the world!
The Seoul school has been blessed, and the leadership has chosen to use blessings received as blessings given. “It is more blessed to give than to receive” is more than a cliché with Seoul 's leadership—it is a way of life! Following are just a few of the ways the Seoul school has blessed others around NICS:
--missions support for former elementary principal Alicia Castillo to pay for her insurance
--helping furnish the new library in Turkey
--donating scores of boxes of textbooks to smaller schools
--contributing significantly to the NICS SEED Fund to provide financial assistance to ICS, Ghana , and RIA, Germany .
--sending resource staff to RIA, Germany , and ICS, Kumasi , Ghana
--financially committing a major portion of excess funds to keep RIA, Germany , operational
--helping smaller NICS schools with website development and hosting costs (ICS-Turkey, ICS-Lima, KIA-Afghanistan, AVA-Brazil, WNS-Kenya
--planning several staff/student missions trips to other NICS schools to do projects, encourage, etc.
--sending 200 shoe boxes of various school supplies, other goodies and paying for the cost of shipping to a Christian school in Tanzania, Africa
--assisting the NICS Nagoya school by paying for the principal to visit the Seoul school
--creating an Intranet's educational website for NICS schools and an informational educational website
This is the dream of NICS coming true! …schools helping, praying, supporting, sister schools! Seoul is not the only place where this is happening, but a big THANK YOU to YIS Seoul for both the spirit and the heart to bless others within the NICS family. This is what makes a “family;” this is what networking is all about!
ICS-LIMA TIMELINE:
1990-1991:
ICS opened her doors for the first time with five teachers and grades JK4-6 with less than 40 students. |
1993-1994:
ICS was able to add an ESL class and 11 teachers were now serving. |
1994-1995:
Seoul was accredited. |
1996-1997:
ICS had outgrown her facilities due to student growth. The elementary and secondary had to be at two different locations approximately 300 meters apart. At this time, there were 23 teachers and a 10th grade was added. |
1997-1998:
The second accreditation visit took place. The NICS Korea schools were the first to complete the joint ACSI/WASC accreditation. ICS-Seoul received a maximum six year term.The ICS secondary school moved to the Youido Campus due to growth. The first senior class of eight students graduated |
1999-2000:
Continued student growth resulted in the elementary and secondary schools developing strategies for a move to unite the two schoos on one campus. The elementary and secondary schools had an all time high enrollment of 291 students. |
2000-2001:
The two schools were reunited into one campus. ICS reached another all time peak enrollment of 333 students. |
2001-2002:
Due to student growth, ICS rented and renovated the second floor and mini-auditorium. The school had an all time high enrollment of over 400 students. |
2002-2003:
ICS received another maximum accreditation from ACSI/WASC. ICS reached an all time high enrollment of 498 students. |
2003-2004:
Seoul has reached the maximum amount of 520 students the Korean ministry of education will allow in our current facility. ICS has grown to have a staff of about 60 members. |
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