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Anglo-Chinese School (International) Pte Ltd or otherwise known as ACS (International) Singapore, is a Methodist private school, owned by the Methodist Church in Singapore. Students take a 6-year course, with the IGCSE in the fourth year, being the first level of secondary education and the International Baccalaureate in the sixth year for the second level. Before 2007, students took the International A-Levels. The combination of IGCSE and IBDP makes ACS (International) unique as no other national school in Singapore currently offers such programmes. The school opened its doors on January 2005 with 150 students of 20 different nationalities, located in Holland Village on the former premises of the now defunct Buona Vista Secondary School at 61 Jalan Hitam Manis. The school does not need to seek permission from the Ministry of Education of admitting Singaporean students as it follows several of the Ministry's policies such as the MOE's bilingual policy and observe practices like singing the National Anthem , while the school runs its own programme. The school boasts a wireless LAN system and has a fully air-conditioned school hall and two state-of-the-art Science laboratories. It has a sports field and a tennis court, a media resource library with a cybercafe, linking it to the canteen. The classrooms (learning studios) are fully air-conditioned (except the chemistry labs for safety reasons). Between science laboratories, there are small rooms called think-tanks. Think-tanks were built to accommodate student who want to brain-storm. There are also four auditoriums, a kitchen for lifeskills and an art room for art lessons. There are also three music room, language rooms, a gym, and church office. The school also uses a homeroom system, by which students go to the teachers classrooms. In June 2007, a new three storey building was constructed which houses twenty classrooms along with the English, Economics, Bridging and Art departments.