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International School Yangon is a private co-educational day school, providing an American curriculum from Pre-school through Grade 12.
The school is fully accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC). The student body consists of 455 students from 30 countries:
- Myanmar (29%)
- Korean (20%)
- American (9%)
- Malaysian (5%)
- Japanese (6%)
- Indian (6%)
- Thai (3%)
- Australian (3%)
- Other Asian (8%)
- European (7%)
High School currently has 147 students, Middle School with 104 students and Elementary School has 204 students.
ISY offers a college preparatory program, leading to a U.S. diploma. All faculty members are certified in their respective countries. Seventy-one percent of the faculty have earned at least a Masters Degree. ISY is now an International Baccalaureate Diploma school with the first cohort of about 40 students starting in August of 2009.
During the past five years, International School Yangon students have been accepted at the following colleges and universities:
- American University
- Amherst College
- Babson College
- Bard College
- Bentley College
- Beloit College
- Boston University
- Brock University
- Brown University
- Bryn Mawr College
- Bucknell University
- California Lutheran
- Carleton College
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Chapman University
- Clark University
- Colorado School of Mines
- Cornell University
- De Paul University
- Drake University
- Duke University
- Eckerd College
- Emmanuel College
- Franklin & Marshall College
- George Washington University
- Grinnell College
- Hamilton College
- Haveford College
- Harvard College
- Hiram College
- Ithaca College
- University of Chicago
- Johns Hopkins University
- King’s College
- Knox College
- Laurentian University
- Manhattan College
- Marlboro College
- McGill University
- Middlebury College
- York University
- Mount Holyoke College
- New York University
- Northwestern University
- Pennsylvania State University
- Pepperdine University
- Smith College
- Stanford University
- St. Olaf College
- Swarthmore College
- University of Arizona
- Iowa State University
- University of Mass., Amherst
- University of Nevada, Reno
- University of Prince Edward Island
- University of the Pacific
- University of Victoria, B.C.
- University of Washington
- Utah State University
- Worchester Polytech Institute
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