How to Apply

After submitting your application, you need to submit supporting documents. Your application will not be processed until these documents are complete. Your personal checklist of requirements and online supplemental forms can be accessed via your online application account.

In general, these include: 

• Application fee: Rp 5 million (approximately $360)
• Academic records for the last three years of school, in English or officially translated in English.
• Confidential reference 
• Student questionnaire (Grades 3 to 12)
• Parent questionnaire (Early Years)
• For students who require learning support services: initial, progressive, and current evaluations or reports.

Required Documents to Apply & for Admitted Applicants

All applicants go through an evaluation process. An admission decision will only be made after your child completes these evaluations.

Early Years

Students will need to demonstrate developmentally appropriate skills. Assessments may include a parent interview, student observation, and/or submission of a series of short, structured videos of the student engaged in an activity. 

Grades 1 to 12

Students are assessed in English language, reading, writing, and mathematics.  Applicants for whom English is not the first language may be required to take an English Language Proficiency Test and attend an interview.

• In Grades 1 and 2, applications are reviewed on the basis of academic history, school records, reference feedback, and in some cases an interview. 
• Applicants in Grades 3 to 10 will take an admissions screening test. Student may take the test online supervised by a JIS Admissions Specialist, or on campus at JIS. Please complete the test early to avoid delays in admission outcomes.
• Applications for Grade 12 are open to Lanes 1 and 2 only and are assessed on a case-by-case basis.

Completed applications will be reviewed by the Admissions Committee. 

Criteria for Admission

• The student’s ability to engage in learning in a developmentally appropriate environment following a rigorous academic and extra-curricular curriculum.
• The student’s ability to contribute positively to the overall  JIS experience.
• The availability of resources and services to provide support and opportunities to accommodate the individual and specific needs of the applicant.
• Alignment between the family's educational goals and values with the JIS mission, vision, dispositions, values, and approaches to learning.
• Ensuring a balance of diversity across grade levels and divisions
• In the High School, admission is also contingent upon the student’s ability to meet the High School Admissions Policy.