Who We Are
Kaohsiung American School (KAS) is a private, non-profit Pre-K - 12 institution with just over 500 students offering college preparatory programs leading to a U.S. high school diploma. It is located in Kaohsiung, a city of 1.5 million in southwestern Taiwan.
KAS was established in 1989 and is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) in California, USA. It has also recently been accredited by the council of international schools.
KAS has been an IB school since 2010. For further information about the IBO and its programmes, visit http://www.ibo.org.
For further information about IB at KAS, visit IB at KAS
We congratulate our 46 seniors for the great colleges and universities that have offered them acceptances. To date such colleges as Dartmouth, Cornell, and Brown in the Ivy League and other tier one schools such as Smith, UC Berkeley, Vanderbilt, John Hopkins, Tufts, Emory, Bowdoin, Carleton, Rice, Colby, UCLA, USC, UCSD, and many other UC schools, Northeastern, Washington University in St. Louis, Purdue, the Universities of Washington, British Columbia, Texas, Colorado, Wisconsin, South Carolina, Maryland, and Illinois, Michigan State, Bryant, Drexel, Boston University, Case Western, Knox, and many, many more. We will publish the final list during the month of May.
Many seniors earned very generous scholarships, including full, four year ones.
