International School of the Sacred Heart

International School of the Sacred Heart is located at 4-3-1 Hiroo, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0012, Japan. The Hiroo district is a residential part of Tokyo with convenient access to central Tokyo by subway. The campus is a short walk from Hiroo Station on the Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line, and the area offers safe off-street drop-off and pick-up.

The school comprises Kindergarten (K3–K5), a Junior School (Grade 1–4), a Middle School (Grade 5–8), and a High School (Grade 9–12). Kindergarten is coeducational, while the Junior School, Middle School, and High School serve girls only.

Independent international school; co-educational in Kindergarten, girls-only from Grade 1 onwards.

The Learning Support program is designed to support individual student needs. The school recognises that some students may require additional support even when admission is at or above grade level, using a variety of methods and materials.

No single country affiliation is stated; ISSH is located in Japan and is part of the Sacred Heart global network of schools.

Religious affiliation is with the Society of the Sacred Heart (Sacred Heart network).

The school day for Middle and High School starts around 8:20 a.m. with a 10:40–10:55 a.m. break and a 12:20–1:20 p.m. lunch period, with dismissal at 3:30 p.m. Before-school arrival is discouraged before 7:45 a.m. for Middle School and 7:30 a.m. for High School.

There is no school bus service; families typically use public transit or private arrangements for transport.

Application and entry fees
- Application Fee: ¥30,000 per student (non-refundable).
- Registration Fee: ¥300,000 per student (non-refundable, one-time).
- Educational & Building Development Fee: ¥600,000 per student (non-refundable, one-time).
- Building / Maintenance Fee: ¥220,000 per student (non-refundable, annual).

Tuition — annual and per academic quarter (per year group)
- Kindergarten 3 and 4: Annual tuition ¥2,420,000; per academic quarter (annual ÷ 4) ¥605,000.
- Kindergarten 5: Annual tuition ¥2,530,000; per academic quarter ¥632,500.
- Grades 1–8: Annual tuition ¥2,620,000; per academic quarter ¥655,000.
- Grades 9–11: Annual tuition ¥2,640,000; per academic quarter ¥660,000.
- Grade 12: Annual tuition ¥2,720,000; per academic quarter ¥680,000.

(Quarter amounts are calculated from the published annual tuition; the school uses academic quarters for proration of tuition for late enrollment.)

Billing schedule and payment terms
- All tuition and school fees must be paid in advance.
- For students who enroll after the school year begins, tuition is calculated on an academic quarter basis; attendance for any portion of a quarter requires payment for the entire quarter. Tuition and fees must be paid in full prior to enrollment.
- The published information does not include a public calendar of invoice dates or a multi-installment billing schedule; the requirement stated is payment in advance and quarterly proration for late starters.

Fee payment options and bank details
- Payment currency: Japanese Yen only. Payment method: bank transfer. The payer is responsible for any bank processing charges.
- Bank details (as published):
- Account Name: International School of the Sacred Heart
- Bank/Branch: Mizuho Bank, Ltd., Roppongi Branch
- Account Type: Ordinary Account
- Account No.: 2236320
- SWIFT Code: MHCBJPJT
- (Japanese account name and branch details are provided in Japanese on the school's payment information.)

Boarding fees
- The school operates as a day school and does not publish boarding facilities or boarding fees. No boarding fees apply.

Other costs and recurring extras
- School Shop: the school shop sells school-spirited merchandise and certain uniform items (for example, kindergarten smocks and PE T-shirts). Full uniform availability and specific uniform items are managed through the school's uniform supply channels. Prices for uniform items are not published on the public admissions/tuition pages.
- Extended Day Program (EDP): SEMESTER FEE ¥265,000 per student. Families pay for an entire semester at a time; the fee is a flat semester amount and does not pro-rate for days not attended. The EDP is not available on national holidays. The EDP fee is non-refundable.
- Additional optional costs that may apply (not itemized in the public tuition page): after-school activities, special event fees, supplies, trips, examination fees, elective or program-specific charges may be billed separately; those items are not listed with fixed amounts on the publicly accessible tuition page.

Refund information
- The following published fees are explicitly non-refundable: Application Fee, Registration Fee (one-time), Educational & Building Development Fee (one-time), and Building/Maintenance Fee (annual).
- The Extended Day Program semester fee is stated as non-refundable.
- The school requires tuition and all school fees to be paid in advance and uses quarterly proration for late enrollment; there is no publicly posted tuition refund or withdrawal refund schedule on the school's published admissions and tuition pages. The publicly published pages do not provide a detailed refund timetable for tuition when a student withdraws mid-year.

Notes on amounts and calculations
- All amounts above are published in Japanese Yen. Annual tuition figures are listed per year group; quarter figures shown above are straightforward divisions of the published annual tuition by four, consistent with the school's use of academic quarters for proration.

If you need any specific line-item clarifications that are not publicly posted (for example, uniform price lists, installment billing dates, or a formal withdrawal/refund schedule), those items are not available on the public admissions and tuition pages; the published statements above are the school's public tuition and fee positions.

The school represents students from about 50 countries, and languages spoken at home total 31. The most represented nationality is not publicly published. Admission policy requires non-Japanese passports for Grade 9 and below, indicating a diverse international intake.