Asia Pacific International School - Hawaii Campus

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Welcome to Asia Pacific International School, Hawaii Campus! Asia Pacific International School (APIS) is a private, non-profit school, fully accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC).

APIS is not the first school to recognize the importance of global mission and vision in education. While almost all schools teach about matters beyond their boundaries, most schools do not operate in any meaningful way outside of them to provide an authentic, contextually global educational experience. APIS is different.

Moving away from the traditional educational paradigm, APIS has created a global network of campuses under one school — our East Asia campus in Seoul, Korea, and our campus of the West in North Shore (Hauula), Hawaii — offering a unique educational opportunity to draw from the advantages of both the East and the West. Imagine the possibilities! A student from our Hawaii campus could spend a semester studying at the Seoul campus, taking advantage of its East Asian language program, and interning at a leading IT lab in Korea. A student from our Seoul campus could come to Hawaii to do a research project on eco-farming, natural resource management, marine biology, and conservation.

Shared curricular emphases across the Seoul and Hawaii campuses ensure that APIS is one integrated learning community. At the same time, each campus will have its curricular specializations and emphases. For example, our 97-acre APIS Hawaii campus, nestled against an emerald mountain backdrop and overlooking the Pacific Ocean, is a residential boarding school serving middle and high school students (grades 5-12). This campus will feature the "New Pacific Century Academy (NPC Academy)," an innovative, student-directed, educational program, which will serve as our center of project-based, experiential, and service-learning. Topics that students could explore include air and water quality, entrepreneurship and social responsibility, endangered species, and building a sustainable future.

APIS is committed to small class size (average of 15 students per class) and a low faculty to student ratio (1:10). Currently, 100 percent of our graduates go on to four-year colleges and universities, matriculating from top institutions such as Stanford, Cornell, Wash U, NYU, Williams, RISD, and Duke.

Finally, APIS is a Christ-centered school. APIS's religious affiliation is non-denominational Christian and welcomes students from all religious and cultural backgrounds. APIS places great value on our community's spiritual health and the academic vitality to nurture caring global citizens, who will be leaders of the New Pacific Century.

As a college preparatory institution, APIS strives for academic excellence. Our goal is to provide our students with the skills and knowledge necessary to succeed at top universities in the United States and worldwide and success in the 21st Century workplace. The goal of curriculum design at APIS is to improve student learning by using current teaching methodologies based on the latest educational research. The backbone of achieving the vision is a coherent, comprehensive, and spiral curriculum based on standards and benchmarks, coupled with the very best instructional practices.

Moving away from the traditional educational paradigm, APIS has created a global network of campuses under one school — our East Asia campus in Seoul, Korea, and our campus of the West in North Shore (Hauula), Hawaii — offering a unique educational opportunity to draw from the advantages of both the East and the West. APIS has:

• Two campuses, strategically located to offer students exposure to and benefit both the East and the West.
• A distinguished and passionate teaching staff recruited from the finest universities in North America and the world.
• An intimate, family-like learning environment with a 1:10 teacher-to-student ratio.
• A rigorous, international curriculum.
• A commitment to nurturing students' unique talents through opportunities in the arts.
• In-school and after-school support for students who need extra academic assistance.
• A loving and caring Christian environment where students from all religious and cultural backgrounds can be nurtured together to work toward intellectual, spiritual, and personal maturity.
• A resource-rich learning environment, including high-speed wireless access and the most up-to-date tech tools in every classroom, Environmental and Agricultural Science Center, and a 97-acre Hawaii campus, provides numerous outdoor learning opportunities.

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