The Japanese School of New York
| The Japanese School of New York | |
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Greenwich, Connecticut United States |
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| Type | Primary & middle school |
| Grades | 1-9 |
| Number of students | 240 (2005) |
| Campus | 15 The Ridgeway, Greenwich, CT. 06831 |
| Website | gwjs.org |
The Japanese School of New York (ニューヨーク日本人学校 Nyūyōku Nihonjin Gakkō?), also known as The Greenwich Japanese School (GJS), is a Japanese elementary and junior high school, located in Greenwich, Connecticut, near New York City. As of 1992 the Ministry of Education of Japan funds the school, which is one of the two Japanese day schools of the Japanese Educational Institute of New York (JEI; ニューヨーク日本人教育審議会 Nyūyōku Nihonjin Kyōiku Shingi Kai), a nonprofit organization which also operates two Japanese weekend schools in the New York City area. Before 1991 the Japanese School of New York was located in Queens, New York City, and for one year it was located in Yonkers, New York.
On April 25, 1975, a group of Japanese parents, under the Japanese Educational Institute of New York, founded the school. The school, which opened on September 2, 1975 in Queens, New York City, was New York City's first Japanese language day school. The school was established because several Japanese parents were concerned with their children's education in the U.S., and all parties at the school emphasized re-integration into the Japanese educational system when the students return to their home countries.
Due to an increasing student population, the school moved to a new location in Queens in December 1980. On August 18, 1991 the school moved to Yonkers in Westchester County, New York. After one year in Yonkers, the school moved to Connecticut. On September 1, 1992 classes began at its current location. Grades 1 through 3 were added in 1996, allowing the school to have a continuous grades 1-9 education program. Since the move, the school had been called the "Greenwich Japanese School" in English, while in Japanese and among Japanese people it is still known as "The Japanese School of New York". In 1994 the administrators had plans to admit American students. That year, the school had 420 students. As of 1994 80% of those students were on temporary stays in the United States of five or fewer years. As of that year, the ratio of boys to girls was almost 3 to 1.
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