Malvern College Tokyo

Malvern College Tokyo is in Kodaira, Tokyo, at 3-2-1 Josuiminamicho, Kodaira 187-0021, Japan. The campus is about a 40-minute commute from central Tokyo and sits in a dense educational area within a 5 km radius of more than 50 institutions, including Hitotsubashi University and Tsuda University. The site encompasses a spacious campus with a four-storey main building and extensive sports facilities on a plot of around 15,577 m².

Malvern College Tokyo operates as an all‑through school from Pre‑Prep to Upper Sixth (Year 1–13). It is an IB World School accredited for the Primary Years Programme (PYP) and the Middle Years Programme (MYP) and is a candidate for the IB Diploma Programme (DP). The school opened in August 2023 and is planned to reach Year 13 by 2027, with capacity to accommodate up to about 950 pupils.

Malvern College Tokyo is a co‑educational international day school. It currently operates as a day school and does not offer on‑site boarding.

The school provides a Learning Enhancement Department to support pupils with low to mild Special Educational Needs. All applicants are assessed during admissions to determine learning profiles, and admission for pupils requiring additional support depends on the availability of appropriate resources.

The school is affiliated with Malvern College UK, reflecting a British heritage and governance within the Malvern College family of schools.

There is no formal religious affiliation stated; the school operates as a secular international IB school.

The school day typically runs from 8:20 a.m. to 3:20 p.m., with lunch provided on site. The timetable is aligned with IB expectations and age-appropriate class structures.

The school provides a bus service with multiple routes across Tokyo and a free Kokubunji shuttle. Route A serves Hiroo, Roppongi, and Azabu Juban; Route B serves Futako Tamagawa and Chitose Funabashi; Route C serves Meguro, Shibuya, and Shinjuku; Route D serves Yotsuya and Yurakucho. Bus monitors ensure pupil safety, and admission is subject to seat availability; the Kokubunji shuttle is available for Pre‑Prep to Prep 3 pupils.

One-time application and enrolment fees

- Application fee: JPY 22,000 (non-refundable).
- Registration fee: JPY 300,000 per child (non-refundable, non-transferable). Payment due within 7 days after you confirm acceptance of an offer.
- Building development fee: JPY 742,000 per child (non-refundable). This fee applies to pupils who are enrolled under the school's stated building-development charge. Payment due within 7 days after you confirm acceptance of an offer where the fee applies.

Annual tuition fees (by year group) and per-term amounts

- Pre‑Prep (PYP): JPY 2,692,700 per year. Per term: JPY 897,567 (annual divided by three terms; school operates three terms per year).
- Prep 1–6 (PYP): JPY 2,662,700 per year. Per term: JPY 887,567 (annual divided by three terms).
- Foundation Year 1–3 (MYP): JPY 2,800,600 per year. Per term: JPY 933,533 (annual divided by three terms).
- Lower Sixth (The Sixth Form): JPY 2,910,000 per year. Per term: JPY 970,000 (annual divided by three terms). Upper Sixth fees are listed as TBC where applicable.

Note: the per-term figures above are derived by dividing the published annual tuition by three because the school's calendar is organised in three terms. These per-term figures are a calculated breakdown, not a separately published “termly” tariff.

Recurring and additional annual charges

- Facility maintenance fee: JPY 277,500 per year (non-refundable). Payable from a pupil's second year of enrolment.
- Sibling discount (Pre‑Prep only): second enrolled child 5% discount; third (and subsequent) child 10% discount (applies to Pre‑Prep fees as stated).

Other costs and typical additional charges

- School bus: multiple routes are operated (Route A–D plus a free shuttle to Kokubunji station). Route map and stops are published; specific bus subscription fees are handled separately and are not shown as a single campus-wide amount on the public fee tables.
- Co-curricular activities, optional programmes, summer courses and optional lunches have separate charges (example: summer programme fees and optional lunch charges are published for short courses). These are charged in addition to annual tuition where applicable.
- Uniforms, specialist kit, optional examination or external-assessment fees, travel for expeditions and optional residential trips are normally additional and charged separately when applicable; such charges are not bundled into the published annual tuition figures. (The school publishes separate activity/programme fees where applicable.)

Boarding

- Boarding accommodation is not part of the published fee schedule for day pupils at present. Plans to provide a dormitory within a few years have been reported; a boarding tariff is not published in the school's current public fee schedule.

Billing schedule and payment terms

- Application fee is payable on submission of an application. Registration fee and any applicable building development fee are payable within seven days after confirmation of acceptance of an offer. Facility maintenance is payable annually from the pupil's second year.
- The school expresses fees in Japanese yen (JPY). All published fees are payable in JPY and the school instructs that payments be made by bank transfer; international applicants are provided with SWIFT/BIC details for overseas transfers. Detailed payment instructions and bank details are provided by the Finance/Admissions office when required.
- Invoices and precise payment deadlines (for tuition instalments or termly billing) are handled by the school's Finance Office; the public fee pages indicate the timing for acceptance-payment (7 days) for registration/building fees but do not publish a separate termly invoice schedule.

Refund information

- The application fee, the registration fee, the building development fee and the facility maintenance fee are stated as non-refundable. Specific refund rules for tuition payments or for withdrawal/early leaving are not included on the public fee summary pages; separate programme pages (for example short-course refunds) state their own refund windows where applicable.

Accepted payment methods

- Bank transfer (JPY) is the published payment method for application and school fees; SWIFT/BIC information is provided for overseas payments. No general credit-card payment option is published on the school's public fee pages.

Summary of key numeric items (annual amounts)

- Application fee: JPY 22,000.
- Registration fee: JPY 300,000 per child.
- Building development fee: JPY 742,000 per child (where applicable).
- Annual tuition by group: Pre‑Prep JPY 2,692,700; Prep 1–6 JPY 2,662,700; Foundation Year 1–3 (MYP) JPY 2,800,600; Lower Sixth JPY 2,910,000.
- Facility maintenance fee: JPY 277,500 per year from year two.

(Per-term tuition figures above are the annual fees divided by three because the school's published calendar runs on a three-term academic year; the per-term figures are calculated values derived from the published annual tuition and the published term structure.)

The school represents 23 nationalities. Nationalities include American, Brazilian, Australian, New Zealander, British, Spanish, Swedish, Japanese, Chinese, South Korean, Taiwanese and Thai among others; the exact local-to-international pupil ratio is not published.