The Australian International School Singapore (AISS) is a co-educational international day school in Singapore that teaches the New South Wales curriculum. The school is divided into preschool, primary and secondary sections. Final year students take the NSW Board of Studies Higher School Certificate examinations.
The school opened in 1993 with a mere 32 students and 7 teachers. By the same year, enrollment had grown to over 200. Today the school has around 1700 students and around 100 staff. The student body comprises over 40 nationalities, with the vast majority coming from Australia and New Zealand. Very few Singaporean students attend the school as the Singapore government's regulations prevent most of its citizens from attending international schools within the country. Many students at the school do not come from native English-speaking backgrounds, and attend special programmes to aid their linguistic development. The student and teacher body change regularly, as is often the case for international schools catering primarily to an expatriate community. Most students and staff stay for around 2-3 years. Few staff members and students have stayed at the school for more than 10 years, and no staff member has been employed by the school since its establishment.
The primary and secondary schools are run virtually independently, as is the pre-school. Each sub-school has its own block of classrooms and its own teachers (except for physical education and music). The pre-school, led by a director, is almost completely separate from the rest of the school. A deputy principal is in charge of each of the sub-schools.
In July 2003, the school moved to a new purpose-built, permanent campus at Lorong Chuan. Facilities at the new campus include a theatre, a special soundproof examination room, a 25-metre swimming pool, three rooftop tennis courts, two indoor gymnasiums, one small outdoor basketball court, and the 'School Oval', a multi-purpose sports field.
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