St. John's School

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St. John's School, located in Vancouver, British Columbia, is an independent, IB World School for boys and girls junior kindergarten to grade 12.St. John's School is accredited by the British Columbia Ministry of Education and is a member of the Federation of Independent Schools Association (FISA). St. John's offers the International Baccalaureate's Primary Years Programme, Middle Years Programme and the Diploma Programme.History and future expansionSt. John’s was founded in 1986 as St. Andrew's School Society with fewer than 100 students from grades 3-10. In 1996, St. John's School purchased the present school facility in Kitsilano and, as part of the school's growth and expansion, land adjacent to the current location has been acquired and developed. The building of a new senior school facility was completed in September 2011. The building includes 11 classrooms and the largest gym of any independent school in the Lower Mainland, in addition to the older gym next door. In 2017, St. John's School will build a connecting building between the junior and senior school for arts and science programmes.StudentsThere are 570 students in grades junior kindergarten to 12, with the junior school running from junior kindergarten to grade 5 and the senior school from grades 6 to 12.AcademicsSt. John's School is an IB World School offering the International Baccalaureate’s Primary Years Programme (JK to grade 5), Middle Years Programme (grades 6 to 10) and the Diploma Programme (grades 11 and 12).