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The five schools Taipei parents researched most this year, chosen from the 21 international schools in the city. Ranked by how many families opened each school’s profile and spent time reading it between September 2025 and August 2026, then the full picture on curricula, class sizes and fees.
The 2026 ranking
Ranked purely by parent interest — the number of families who opened each school’s profile and spent time reading it between September 2025 and August 2026.
Kang Chiao International School - Xiugang Campus, established in 2002 and located on the 4.5-hectare Xiugang Hill in New Taipei City at an elevation of 500 meters, offers bilingual education for Grades 7 to 12. The school provides multiple curricular pathways, including the IB Middle Years Programme (MYP), IB Diploma Programme (DP), Advanced Placement (AP), and a localized Taiwanese curriculum. Notably, the campus features a 1.8-hectare field education area with indigenous plant life and trails through cherry forests, supporting its focus on environmental awareness. A distinctive feature of the student experience is the mandatory "Exploring Taiwan/Asia Program." As part of this signature initiative, students must complete physical and cultural challenges such as climbing the 3,886-meter Syue Mountain in Grade 8, swimming 3.3 kilometers across Sun Moon Lake in Grade 9, and undertaking a 1,000-kilometer cycling journey around Taiwan in Grade 10.
Taipei American School (TAS) is a private international day school in Taipei's Tianmu area offering an American-based education for KA through Grade 12. The language of instruction is English, with Mandarin taught as an additional language from Kindergarten onward. TAS is hosted on a 15-acre campus in Tianmu, a northern suburb of Taipei, featuring a dedicated Arts Center, science and technology labs, multiple gymnasia, and extensive athletic facilities. The school provides AP and IB pathways within an American framework and serves a diverse expatriate community of around 2,400 students annually. TAS maintains bus service for many Taipei-area residents and emphasizes a co-educational environment without on-campus boarding.
Asia American International Academy (AAIA) is located in Linkou District, New Taipei City, Taiwan. The campus is near the Taoyuan Airport MRT line (A8 Chang-Gung Station and A9 Linkou Station) and is close to Mitsui Outlet Park Linkou and Shine Square. The school offers an American-based curriculum for grades 6–12 and is accredited by WASC.
Taipei Kuei Shan School (Kuei Shan) is a private, nonprofit, PreK–12 IB World Continuum school located in the foothills of Yangmingshan in Taipei. The campus serves around 600 students from more than 20 nationalities and blends IB programs with a Taiwanese national curriculum perspective. Instruction in the lower years is approximately half in English and half in Mandarin, while high school instruction is in English and Mandarin is taught as a subject. The school emphasizes holistic development, with daily devotion in homerooms and a monthly chapel, and welcomes families from diverse backgrounds who are not required to share the Christian tradition. Extracurricular offerings include intramural sports, visual and performing arts, service, Model United Nations, scouting, robotics, sewing, and cooking. Kuei Shan is accredited by the Taipei City Government Department of Education and is an IB World School offering PYP, MYP, and DP.
VIS International Experimental Education in Taipei was founded in 2019. The High School site is on the National Taiwan University campus (Xing Yuan Building) near Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, with the Junior High/Elementary campus located on Roosevelt Road in Da'an District. The campus area is in central Taipei, surrounded by major cultural landmarks and university facilities.
What’s on offer
The mix of programmes and teaching languages across all 21 schools. Many offer more than one curriculum, so totals run higher than the school count.
Number of schools teaching each curriculum.
Number of schools teaching in each language.
Size & classes
School size and class size shape day-to-day experience as much as curriculum does.
Schools grouped by total enrolment.
Average school size is 624 students · based on the 20 schools that report enrolment.
Schools grouped by typical class size.
Average class size is 15.4 students · based on the 19 schools that report it.
What it costs
Fees shown are one year for a 12-year-old (or the closest age available), excluding one-time enrolment costs.
Across the 15 schools that publish a price for a 12-year-old. All figures in TWD.
How many schools sit in each annual-fee range.
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