The Dewey Schools Tay Ho Tay
Hanoi, Vietnam · est. 2020 · PrivateKey facts
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · MYP, DP · authorised programmeCIS · membershipCollege Board · authorised programmeThe Dewey Schools · school is part of the networkWhat stands behind each entry
A Swiss non-profit, working since 1968. Its programmes are among the most widely recognised school programmes in the world. Authorisation is granted stage by stage, so a school with the final stage does not necessarily run the younger ones; which stages this school holds is set out in the line below.
What the badge means for this school. The school is allowed to run this programme and to award its certificate. This is a confirmation of the programme, not a judgement on the school as a whole. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it. At this school: MYP (ages 11-16), DP (ages 16-19). MYP is the middle stage, ages 11 to 16. There are no exams here either; at the end an optional electronic assessment of pupils' work is possible. DP is the final stage, ages 16 to 19: six subjects plus a compulsory core of theory of knowledge, an extended essay and CAS. The diploma is accepted by universities all over the world, and in a number of countries it counts for admission on the same footing as the local leaving certificate.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →It accredits international schools and is a paying association at the same time. It examines governance and ownership, the curriculum, teaching, student wellbeing, staff and premises; a team of volunteers from other CIS accredited schools visits the school. Membership and accreditation are different things here, and schools confuse them more often than anything else.
What the badge means for this school. The school belongs to this organisation but has not been through its accreditation. The difference matters: membership is usually paid for and has no external inspection behind it. The entry is confirmed in the organisation's open directory.
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 Dewey Schools - a Vietnamese network of bilingual all-through schools with an American programme, head office in Hanoi. The network traces its history to 2011, when the first Sakura Schools kindergarten opened in the Cau Giay district; the first school under the name The Dewey Schools opened in 2016 in the same place. After that: 2017 - a campus in Duong Kinh in Hai Phong and a training centre for Montessori teachers, 2020 - the Tay Ho Tay campus, 2024 - The Dewey Ocean Park. On its own page about itself the network gives four figures: 7,500 pupils in its kindergartens and schools, 14 sites, 145 universities its graduates have entered, and five programmes. There are four school campuses under the name The Dewey Schools: Cau Giay, Tay Ho Tay and Ocean Park in Hanoi, and Hai Phong; the remaining sites within the 14 are Sakura Montessori kindergartens. There are five programmes: two integrated with the Vietnamese leaving certificate, two international ones with the American certificate, and the International Baccalaureate; only the Tay Ho Tay campus holds IB World School status for the DP and MYP programmes. The academic partner of all the campuses is Mount Vernon School in the United States, and the campuses belong to CIS. In its own news the network calls itself part of Edufit Education Group; it does not describe the legal construction, and ownership cannot be told from management or franchise by the website.
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.