Concordia International School Hanoi
Hanoi, Vietnam · est. 2011 · PrivateKey facts
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
ACS WASC · accreditationCollege Board · authorised programmeLutheran Church-Missouri Synod · school is part of the networkWhat stands behind each entry
An American regional accreditation of the institution, working since 1962 and covering some 5,500 schools in California, the Pacific and Asia. It judges the whole school: a self-study, then a team visit. It gives the same status to supplementary and virtual programmes, so the category of an entry is worth checking separately.
What the badge means for this school. The school has been through this organisation's accreditation. It was judged as a whole: governance, safeguarding, staff, premises, teaching. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →An American organisation that allows a school to put the letters AP on a pupil's transcript. The permission is granted course by course and tied to a particular teacher, it has to be renewed every year, and College Board reads the course syllabus before granting it.
What the badge means for this school. The school is allowed to run advanced AP courses - not the school as a whole, but one by one: by subject and by teacher. Governance, safeguarding and the primary years are not part of that check. Which subjects are actually approved is visible in the ledger. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →Advanced Placement: American advanced courses for the senior years. The exam for a course is set and marked by the College Board, not by the school. A good result is counted by American universities as a first-year course already passed, which saves a student time and money.
What this means for this school. A school does not get to call a course AP automatically: the College Board reads the course syllabus and approves it separately for every subject and every teacher, and the permission has to be renewed each year. Every approved school in the world is listed in the open AP Course Ledger, and this school's entry there stands as a line in the accreditation block above. How many courses a school is approved for, and in which subjects, the ledger does not show in its general listing. AP has no leaving certificate of its own: it sits on top of the school's main programme rather than being a separate system.
The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod is a Lutheran church in the United States to which Concordia International School Hanoi assigns itself. No site of the church's school arm could be found, and this note is put together from the school's own section. According to it, the church has been developing schools in the United States since the 1860s and in Asia over the last forty years. Three international Concordia schools in Asia are named: besides the Hanoi one, schools in Hong Kong and Shanghai, described as earlier and as sister schools. The form of the relationship between the church and the schools is not explained: it is not said whether this is ownership, management or only the name, and only the school's belonging to the church is named. The Hanoi school began its first academic year in 2011 with 50 pupils in rented premises and in 2016 moved to a permanent campus in Van Tri. The numbers on one and the same page differ: the historical text speaks of more than 530 pupils from more than 26 countries, the block of indicators of more than 555 from more than 45 countries. WASC and National Lutheran School Accreditation accreditations, membership of EARCOS.
What this means for this school. The network owns or operates the school. Its accreditation and programme authorisation the school obtains separately, in its own name.