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Seoul Foreign School

ANNUAL REPORT 2015-2016

ESTABLISHED IN 1912

WELCOME

to our 2015-2016 Annual Report

Dear SFS Community, Seoul Foreign School is a Christian school for everyone. We have been a part of Korea’s history since 1912 and it is our role to ensure that we continue to provide the highest quality education for all of our students, creating an environment in which our Christian heritage provides an atmosphere of academic rigor and love for our neighbor.

With this at the forefront of our thinking, it is with great pleasure that I introduce our Annual Report for the academic year 2015-2016. We aim to give you an overview of both our financial health as well as the key indicators for our students’ attainment and extra-curricular performance.

The best schools in the world are always those who are striving to improve. There is never room for complacency in the best schools, and Seoul Foreign School aspires to be one of those institutions. As such, we are committed to developing the best programmes, the best resources and the best facilities. But primarily, it is about developing the best teaching and the best teachers. Consistently striving towards teaching excellence will be our central focus as we recruit, retain and support teachers of quality to work alongside you and your children. Our goal is to provide an education that they can look back on with a sense of pride, enjoyment and accomplishment.

We look forward to your continuing support!

Yours faithfully,

Colm Flanagan Head of School

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WELCOME

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FINANCE

Dear SFS Community, It is with great pleasure that we present to you a financial snapshot of the 2015-2016 school year. SFS currently receives over 98% of its revenue from tuition related sources, and 76% of the budget is spent on personnel costs to ensure that SFS employs educators and staff of the highest quality from around the world.

We are pleased to report that our audited financial results for the 20152016 school year compare favorably to the budget approved by the Board in May 2015. Overall revenue was better than forecasted due to an increase in enrollment for the school year and expenses were under the budgeted amount.

SFS was able to contribute more than expected to our plant fund, and this helps to ensure our financial stability.

Under the stewardship of our Board and Finance Committee, SFS is committed to the highest principles of financial soundness, and this should give us all reassurance for years to come.

Warmest Regards, Misty Shipley Assistant Head of School - Finance & Operations

ANNUAL FUND GIVING REPORT

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We want to provide a good example to our kids of what it looks like to give back to a community that has given us so much. That is why we support the annual fund.

Mike and Lauren Jackson 2015-2016 Faculty & Parents

Dear SFS Community, Giving, at Seoul Foreign School, is not a business transaction. It is a human connection. Seoul Foreign School’s Annual Fund is an opportunity for the community to band together and work towards a common goal. That goal is to cultivate a community spirit that practices the art of giving for a worthy cause.

It is an invaluable learning lesson for our students. It is a way of life.

During the 2015-2016 school year, the Annual Fund helped to pay for the wonderful primary years playground equipment/apparatus that aligns beautifully with the school’s adoption of the Primary Years Programme philosophy. Outfitted with a challenging climbing apparatus, zip line, “treehouse” and a nature climb that utilizes the natural landscape to name just a few, the Fund helped to actualize a much needed outdoor learning upgrade.

We are extremely grateful for all the categories of givers listed on the next page. The list represents those who have generously contributed to an educational project that will benefit many students for years to come. We sincerely thank the Parents, Students, Board, Faculty, Alumni, and members of the broader SFS community who continue to espouse Seoul Foreign School’s culture of giving.

Gratefully, Esther K. Myong, Ed.D. Director of Communications, Marketing & Operations

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ANNUAL FUND

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ANNUAL FUND

DONOR LIST 2015-2016 ANNUAL FUND

MILLENNIUM CLUB Emma Lee Jenna Lee Jaeyoul Kim Tzu Yu (Lillian) Sheng ‘15 RED AND BLACK CLUB Danam Engineering Inc. Rayoung (Madeline) Lee THE CREST CLUB 8th Grade 2015-16 From the 2015-16 SFS Board on behalf of Mr. Minki Synn for his service as Board Chair From the Cho Family – Paul, Jiyeon, Christopher ’12 and Natalie Min Soo Choi & June Kang Daddy Daughter Dinner Dance Planning Committee 2016 Linda and Joe Erlinger Colm & Sinead Flanagan Kathleen and Timothy Gray James and Sarah (Hubbard) Gunberg ‘71 J&J Catering The Kae Brothers George Dongkyu Ko Euiseok Kim & Regina Ryu ‘87* Henry Kim & Family Jerome and Silvia Kim Jinwook Kim & Jennifer YJ Kang W. Amber Kim ‘12 in honor of Rev. Yong Il Kim W. Andrew Kim ‘14 in honor of Rev. Yong Il Kim Kenneth and Rebecca Lee Seoyoon (Annie) Moon Joon, Esther, Gabriel, and Marissa Myong The Nahm Family John ‘70 & Masumi O’Donnell Katherine and Justin Oh Jasmine, Iris and James J. Park Don and Rose Robinson

CENTENNIAL CLUB 5th Grade 2015-16 5J 2015-16 The 5th Grade Class of 2014-15 Class of 2016 Miyeon Bahng Eunhi C. Cho Youngwoo Cho Young Min Choi Chua Ken Hon and Family Soyoung Chung The Cooper Family Scott and Molly DeBoer Kanghoe Do Hana and Maya Eldessouky The Foord Family Gardon & Greyvensteyn Brian Hall Jeff and Jenn Holcomb Hyun Sook Hong The Hong Family James Hopkins Judy and David Hwang Audrey Im Mike and Lauren Jackson Byeong-guk Jeon Celine Jin Ji Young Jung Calvin Anthony Kamphuis The Kent Family The Kersting Family Charles Kim ‘91, Kristina Kim ‘01 & Hyunju Kim ‘02 Dae Woon Kim Eensoo Chris Kim Jeung Soo Kim Yoo Soo Kim Haejin Koh

Zifei Liu Andy and Joanna Lee Blair, Kim, Hudson & Maguire Lee Byunguk Lee Chang Hee Lee Eun Joo Lee Hugh Heung Sang Lee Inseop and Jungah Lee Jinju Lee Moonjin Lee The Lycett Family Jack & Edie ‘77 Moon Young Sik Moon Seung Min Nam Susan Pope Chandler ‘90 The Prest Family The Sanderson Family S. Schrader & Y. Kim The Searles Family Susan Sell-Haynes Misty Shipley and JJ Akin Cindy Slover Butikofer ‘71 Roy Smith Shannon and Justin Smith Frank Shyn ‘87* Adam, Lauren, Jade & Ella Teather Brad and Jo Thies Yoojin Um Esther Washburn Smith Insil Tak James S. Weaver Jr. Family Fund Jessica ‘15 & Michael Woo Peter Yap Sheila Yap Myeongho Yeom and Kelly Wang Hye Sun Woo Taewho Yoon

LEGACY CLUB Anonymous Young Bo Bae Benjamin Choi Christian Choi ‘14 Ja Yong Choi Jong Chul Choi Young Woo Choi Byung Sik Chung Chan Kun Chung Paul Escalante-Mead Mathew & Dao Gibault Janelle Grover Seong Hoon Hong Wan Hee Hong Shirley and Peter Hutchin Won Joo Hwang Colin ‘22 & Trevor ‘20 Jackson Menya Jefferson Woo Tak Jeun Jin-hyuck Joo Young Nam Joo Sang Oh Kang Albert Y. Kim ‘14 Chul-hoi Kim Kyu Heon Kim Sung Han Kim Yoo Hwan Kong Hong Seo Koo Micah Kuhl Ryan & Lindsay Kuhl Ohin Kwon Byung Ju Lee Jae Hun Lee Jung Yong Lee Keun Chul Lee Seong Hwa Lee Seung Jae Lee Seungwoo Lee Sally McEachen Justyna and Triston McMillan Moonki Min Byung Sil Park Yong Min Park Paul ‘04 & Hannah Rader Grace, Joshua & Aletheia Roth Dong Jin Shin Mark and Laura Worden Chang-geun Yang Bo Ram Yoo

Bold and Italicized = Repeat Donor

Donor Groups Legacy Club $1+ Centennial Club $100+ Crest Club $1,000+ Red and Black Club $5,000+ Millenium Club $10,000+ 1912 Society $50,000+

ACADEMICS

Dear SFS Community, It has been another exciting year in the Academics Office of Seoul Foreign School. Our curriculum, teaching, and assessment practices are aligning to make our school an even stronger international educational institution. SFS is in its second century of educating students, but we continually strive to improve. We are committed to providing the best international education to our students.

In the 2015-16 year we embarked on becoming a full IB school by adding the Primary Years Programme and the Middle Years Programme to our Elementary School and Middle School, respectively.

Amidst this change, our British School is strengthening its unique distinction of offering the English National Curriculum, while orientating its learning to prepare students for our thriving High School’s IGCSE and Diploma Programme. We believe that embracing these changes will increase our students’ profile and allow them to move on to the top universities around the world.

We are proud that SFS students not only achieve academic excellence, but do so within a community committed to making our world a better place.

God Bless, Blair Lee, Ed.D. Assistant Head of School - Academics

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ACADEMICS

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NWEA RESULTS

The Measure of Academic Progress test from the NWEA (Northwest Evaluation Association) is designed to measure student progress and is administered two times during the year. Each student is tested both for growth in reading, math and language usage and for proficiency in the same areas. These individual scores help teachers place students in appropriate achievement groups and detect progress with the previous test. In the table key, EARCOS stands for East Asia Regional Council of Schools.

SFS

SPRING 2016

EARCOS SPRING 2016

US NORMS SPRING 2015

GRADE 6

228 223 215

LANGUAGE

230 223 216

LANGUAGE

READING

MATH

241 237 225

234 227 218

GRADE 7 READING

MATH

253 246 229

235 227 218

8th Graders do not take the NWEA test in the spring to protect classroom time as they are given the CAT assement around this time.

A RIT (Rasch Unit) score is an estimation of a student’s instructional level and also measures student progress or growth in school. Similar to a chart on which you mark a child’s height to show growth over time, MAP assessments do the same, except they measure mathematics, reading, and language usage.

The RIT scale is an equal-interval scale much like feet and inches on a yardstick. It is used to chart a child’s academic growth from year to year. Educators expect RIT scores to increase over time.

ENGLISH NATIONAL CURRICULUM RESULTS

In the British School, a number of assessments are used to benchmark the students’ progress and are reported on the Students’ Progress Reports during the year. There are no ‘passes’ or ‘fails’ in these assessments—they provide a ‘snapshot’ of each of our students at that point in their education.

Level 4 Maths SFBS Average 100

100

98

97

100

80

84

85

86

89

100

70*

UK Average 2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

Level 4 English SFBS Average 100

97

97

97

97

81

85

87

88

89 66*

UK Average 2011

2012

97

2013

2014

2015

2016

*UK has revised their testing with a more rigorous structure that SFS will be implementing in the 16-17 year.

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Level 5 Maths SFBS Average 83

79

UK Average 29

39

82

85

41

42

91 77

44 17*

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

Level 5 English SFBS Average 89

84

87

87

46

47

48

85

70

UK Average

35

35

19* 2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

During Key Stages 1-3 (Y1-Y9), progress in National Curriculum subjects is assessed against seven levels. At the end of Key Stage 2 (Y6), the level will reflect the child’s national test results in Maths and English. The UK average is Level 4; the majority of SFBS students are expected to achieve Level 5. *UK has revised their testing with a more rigorous structure that SFS will be implementing in the 16-17 year

IGCSE, IB & SAT RESULTS

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ACADEMICS

International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) IGCSE Test Scores Received

2016

636 597

2015

421

2014

420

2013

100% PASS RATE

The experience of completing courses that are two years in length followed by a set of external examinations not only rewards the students with a qualification from the University of Cambridge, but also helps to prepare them for the IB Diploma, a program with a similar structure.

40%

of exam scores were the top score of either A* or A

High Pass A*-C Courses

88%

Additional Mathematics

84%

Coordinated Sciences

97%

First Language Korean

84% History

International Baccalaureate

SFS Average Score

Pass Rate

Number of Full IB DP Candidates

34

2016

33

2015

91%

2014

92%

2013

93%

69

2012

90%

63

2011

78%

63

32 32 31 32

76

99%

98 75

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8 SFS STUDENTS SCORED 40 OR ABOVE ON THE IB DIPLOMA

43 424140 X2

X3

When compared to the world averages, 23 subjects were above world average including all of our maths, English and arts subjects. Globally, the IB is recognized by over 2,545 universities and colleges in over 75 countries.

The IB Diploma Programme is the premier preparation for success in university, post graduate studies and life beyond.

Twenty-six students (34%) achieved what SFS calls its “premium grades� (36 or over), along with 8 students (11%) receiving 40 or over. This is the highest percentage ever at SFS.

Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT)

SFS CLASS OF 2016 UNIVERSITY ACCEPTANCES Academy of Art University American University (DC) (2) Amherst College Arizona State University (2) Art Center College of Design Art Institute of California-San Francisco Australian National University Azusa Pacific University Babson College Bard College (2) Barnard College Baylor University (2) Beloit College (2) Bennington College Berklee College of Music (2) Binghamton University Biola University (2) Boston College (7) Boston University (7) Brandeis University Brighton & Sussex Medical School Brown University California College of the Arts-San Francisco (2) Calvin College (4) Carnegie Mellon University (3) Central College Central St. Martins College of Art & Design Chapman University (2) Clark University Colgate University The Cooper Union Cornell University (3) Cornish College of the Arts Dalhousie University Dartmouth College Duke University East Carolina University Eckerd College Ecole Hoteliere de Lausanne Embry-Riddle Aeronautical U.-Dayton Beach Emerson College (2) Emily Carr University of Art & Design Emory University (6) Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam Florida State University (2) Fordham University Fresno Pacific University The George Washington University (5) Georgia Institute of Technology Goldsmiths, University of London Grand Valley State University Hamilton College (2) Hanyang University Hofstra University Hope College (3) Hope International University University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign (5) Indiana University-Bloominton International Christian University Ithaca College Kalamazoo College King’s College London (2) Knox College (2) Konyang Medical University

Korea University Loyola University-Chicago (4) Loyola University-New Orleans Lycoming College Maryland Institute College of Art (2) Master’s College and Seminary McDaniel College McGill University McMaster University Michigan State University (6) Michigan Technological University Middlebury College Monash University Moody Bible Institute Mount Holyoke College (2) The College of New Jersey New York University (15) North Carolina State University University of North Texas Northwestern University (3) Oakland University Oberlin College (2) Occidental College (2) Ohio Wesleyan University Otis College of Art and Design Pace University Parsons-The New School Pennsylvania State University (6) Pepperdine University (5) Point Park University Pratt Institute (5) Princeton University Purchase College-SUNY (2) Purdue University (4) Queen Mary University of London Queen’s University (2) Rochester Institute of Technology Royal Holloway, University of London (2) Rutgers University-New Brunswick San Jose State University Santa Clara University (2) School of the Art Institute of Chicago (7) School of Visual Arts (7) Seattle Pacific University Seattle University Simon Fraser University Simpson University St. Olaf College Stanford University Stevens Institute of Technology SUNY Korea Syracuse University (8) Texas A&M University The Royal Danish Academy of Music Tufts University United States Military Academy University College London (3) University of Aberdeen University of Alberta University of Amsterdam University of Bath (2) University of Birmingham University of Bristol (3) University of British Columbia (6)

University of California-Berkeley (5) University of California-Davis (12) University of California-Irvine (23) University of California-Los Angeles (16) University of California-Riverside (5) University of California-San Diego (19) University of California-Santa Barbara (6) University of California-Santa Cruz (2) University of Central Florida University of Chicago University of Cincinnati University of Dayton University of East Anglia University of Edinburgh (2) University of Glasgow University of Hull University of Iowa (2) University of Kent University of Melbourne University of Michigan (4) University of Minnesota-Twin Cities University of Notre Dame University of Oklahoma University of Oregon (2) University of Ottawa University of Pennsylvania (4) University of Pittsburgh University of Queensland University of San Francisco (2) University of Sheffield University of Southern California (8) University of St. Andrews University of Sydney (2) University of Texas-Austin University of the Arts University of Toronto University of Tulsa University of Victoria University of Warwick University of Washington-Seattle (2) University of Washington-Tacoma University of Waterloo University of Wisconsin-Madison (2) University of York Valparaiso University Vassar College Villanova University Virginia Tech (2) Wake Forest University Wartburg College Waseda University Washington State University Washington University in St. Louis Wellesley College Wesleyan University Western Carolina University Wheaton College (IL) (2) Wheaton College (MA) Whittier College Worcester Polytechnic Institute Yale University (2) Yonsei University-Underwood

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UNIVERSITY OFFERS

2015-2016 BOYS SOCCER APAC CHAMPIONS

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SPORT

APAC

Asia Pacific Activities Conference

KAIAC

Korean-American Interscholastic Activities Conference

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SPORT FOBISIA

Federation of British International Schools in Asia

U15

U13

U11

4th 5th

5th 3rd

Yr6: 6th 4th Yr5: 5th 5th Yr4: 3rd 4th

4th

2nd

4th

4th 3rd

2nd 3rd

1st

2nd

HONG KONG

Football

Athletics

Basketball

Swimming T-Ball

SEOUL

4th Yr6: 3rd Yr4: 4th

KAIAC

Korean-American Interscholastic Activities Conference

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FACULTY

FACULTY

You know you’ve chosen an excellent school when the teacher’s lesson goes well beyond the textbook & impacts your career throughout your life.

Julie Schubert ‘91 SFS Alumni

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