Email: information@aislagos.com
Web: www.aislagos.com
2009-2010
The American International School of Lagos (AISL) is a private, coeducational school, which offers an American educational program for students of all nationalities in prekindergarten through grade 12. The school was founded in 1964 continues to thrive as an independent school supported, in part, by a school-to-school partnership with Tacoma Public Schools in Tacoma, Washington and the Klein Independent School District, in Houston, Texas. The August to June school year is divided into trimesters for elementary students and semesters for secondary students. AISL is an International Baccalaureate (IB) Organization World School.
Organization: A 9-member Board of Directors governs AISL. The American International School of Lagos Association elects the Directors to a 3 year term. Members of the association are parents and/or guardians of children enrolled in the school.
Curriculum: The program is a rigorous curriculum of an American Educational Institution and is taught in English. The elementary (PK-5) curriculum, materials, instruction, and assessment program are developed using a U.S. curriculum development model, based on national standards. Each subject area is reviewed annually in order to insure that we are using the best and most current materials available to our teachers. Instruction is in English with ELL services and a limited Student Support Program for grades K-5. Special courses include: IT, French, Spanish, physical education, music, art, African studies, and library. Instructional technology skills are integrated into the core curriculum. The schools administers the ITBS/ISA as annual standardized assessments.
Our secondary students (grades 6-12) use a curriculum that has been developed using U.S. national standards and the IB rubrics. The school will be expanded to grade 12 in 2009, with our first graduating class scheduled for commencement in June 2010. The high school will teach the IB curriculum and students will have the opportunity to earn an IB diploma. The high school students are assessed annually using the standardized ITED. Grade 10 and 11students are required to take the PSAT. AISL is recognized by the College Board as a testing site for the SAT exams.
Faculty: In the 2009-2010 school year, there are 72 full-time teachers, including a full-time curriculum director and 2 counselors. 75% of the AISL faculty members hold a master’s degree. All faculty members are certificated with a minimum of 2 years of experience.
Enrollment: At the beginning of the 2009-2010 school year, enrollment was 751 with a very long waiting list.
Facilities: The main school building is situated on an 8 acre campus, a 3-level structure with 40 teaching stations of about 800 square feet each and 7 smaller instructional areas. Specialist teaching areas include an art studio, drama classroom, technology lab with Internet connectivity, and three science laboratories (for elementary, middle and high school). An additional annex was built to accommodate the secondary program. The building includes 9 additional classrooms with expansion planned for next year as well. There are 2 music instruction rooms with 2 adjacent private practice rooms. Each classroom has at least 2 networked computer workstations, and 6 portable computer carts containing a full classroom set of laptops with wireless networking capacity for different areas of the campus. The library holds over 30,000 volumes and is approximately 2800 square feet in size and incorporates a group instruction area, individual reference and study areas, primary age student reading room, computer lab, periodical section and audio-visual resource facility. The sports and recreational facilities includes a full size gymnasium that is also used as an auditorium, 3 lighted tennis courts, an outdoor basketball court, a 100m x 55m sports field with a 100-meter sprint tract and long jump pit, aerobics and weight training rooms and extensive Big Toy play apparatus. The facility also includes a 25-meter swimming pool, and 2 conference rooms are also on the site.
Finances: In the 2009-2010 school year, about 95% of the School's income derives from tuition and fees. Annual tuition rates are as follows: PK: $8,980; kdg.-grade 5: $13,379; grades 6-8: $17,630; and grades 9-11: $20,220. In addition, there is a nonrefundable application fee of $400 and students attending AISL for the first time pay a registration fee of $7,000. There is also a $1,600 Annual Capital Levy Fee. (All fees are quoted in U.S. dollars.)
