TASIS Opens 2018–2019 Academic Year With Students From 57 Nations
Posted 09/03/2018 03:18PM
Classes for the 2018–2019 Academic Year began on the morning of Monday, September 3, and TASIS opened the year with 705 students. Below are a few notes about this year’s student body.
- The Elementary School (grades Pre-Kindergarten through five) opened with 190 students, the Middle School (grades six through eight) opened with 125 students, and the High School (grades nine through postgraduate) opened with 390 students.
- 181 students are new to TASIS.
- 524 students are returning to the School, marking a strong retention rate of 86 percent.
- The Class of 2018 (106 seniors) is slightly larger than last year’s graduating class of 103.
- The 20 Middle School boarding students are all new to TASIS, as last year’s group consisted solely of students in grade eight.
- 60 percent of High School students are boarders while 40 percent are day students.
- 57 nationalities are represented in the student body (see list below).
- 35 different languages are spoken as a mother tongue (see list below).
- The ten nations most represented in the TASIS student body are, in alphabetical order, Brazil, China, Germany, Italy, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
- New nations added to the student body this year include Argentina, Czech Republic, Moldova, and Pakistan.
Nations represented in the 2018–2019 TASIS student body:
Albania | France | Pakistan |
Argentina | Germany | Poland |
Australia | Greece | Portugal |
Austria | India | Romania |
Azerbaijan | Iran | Russia |
Belarus | Ireland | Saint Kitts and Nevis |
Bolivia | Italy | Serbia |
Brazil | Japan | Singapore |
Bulgaria | Kazakhstan | Slovakia |
Canada | Korea | South Africa |
China | Latvia | Spain |
Colombia | Lebanon | Sweden |
Cote d'Ivoire | Lithuania | Switzerland |
Croatia | Macedonia | Turkey |
Cyprus | Malta | Ukraine |
Czech Republic | Mexico | United Arab Emirates |
Denmark | Moldova | United Kingdom |
Estonia | Netherlands | United States |
Finland | Norway | Venezuela |
Languages spoken as a mother tongue in the 2018–2019 TASIS student body:
Albanian | Farsi | Norwegian |
Arabic | Finnish | Polish |
Armenian | French | Portuguese |
Azerbaijani | German | Romanian |
Belarusian | Hindi | Russian |
Bulgarian | Italian | Serbian |
Chinese | Japanese | Slovak |
Croatian | Kazakh | Spanish |
Danish | Korean | Swedish |
Dutch | Lithuanian | Turkish |
English | Macedonian | Ukrainian |
Estonian | Moldavian |