Wellspring International Bilingual School, Hanoi
Hanoi, Vietnam · est. 2009 · PrivateKey facts
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
ACS WASC · accreditationCollege Board · authorised programmeWellspring International Bilingual Schools · 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.
Wellspring International Bilingual Schools - a Vietnamese network of bilingual all-through schools. On its own website it counts itself from 2009 and speaks of almost two decades of work and of fourteen graduating classes. There are three campuses, all in Vietnam: Wellspring Hanoi on Ai Mo street in the Bo De district, opened in 2009, more than 2,000 pupils, a campus of over four hectares; Wellspring Saigon in the Saigon Pearl complex in Ho Chi Minh City, a campus of over 1.6 hectares; and Wellspring Saigon South in the Phu My Hung district, a campus of 15,000 square metres. All three work to one bilingual Vietnamese-American model on the CCSS and NGSS standards, are accredited by ACS WASC, are recognised by the College Board, work with Edmentum and with Mizzou Academy of the University of Missouri, and belong to the UNESCO Happy Schools community, which Wellspring joined in 2022 as the first school in Vietnam to do so. The network does not give a combined number of pupils on its pages. Who owns the network its own website does not say: neither a founder, nor an investor, nor any distinction between ownership and management is there.
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.