HIGH SCHOOL PROFILE 2021-2022 CEEB CODE 682016

SCHOOL OVERVIEW AP EXAM RESULTS 2020-2021

St. Johnsbury Academy Jeju opened its doors in the fall of 2017 for nearly 450 St. Johnsbury Academy, Jeju 2021 Korea Mean Score 2021 Global Mean Score 2021

students in Prek3-10th grade. We are the first (and only) American International
4.56
School in the Global Education City on Jeju Island in South Korea. We are modeled 2-D Art and Design 4.08
after our homeschool in the United States - St. Johnsbury Academy (Vermont) - a 3.42

179-year-old boarding school with a rich history of academic excellence. 4

3-D Art and Design 3.5
3.09
SJA Jeju incorporates and emulates many aspects of the academic programming of 4.8
SJA Vermont, though we have the freedom to adapt our homeschool's model to Calculus AB 3.84
2.81
best fit our context and community here on Jeju Island. As such, we largely follow 5
the home school’s example in most aspects of our academic program, including: Calculus BC 4.09
3.62
morning assemblies, advisory, conference period, senior capstone projects, 4.41
inquiry-based learning, AP College Board course options and a two-semester Chemistry 3.63
2.64
academic calendar.
5
Chinese Language and Culture 4.3
Now in our fifth school year, approximately 1050 students attend SJA Jeju in 4.09
4.15
grades PreK 3 through 12th grade. The high school currently enrolls more than Computer Science Principles 3.86
330 students and, with each subsequent school year, our academic programming 3

and offerings will continue to grow alongside our enrollment as we expand our AP 5
Drawing 4.24
course options, celebrate our Senior Capstone projects and continue to emulate 3.51
the traditions and excellence of our homeschool in Vermont. SJA Jeju was officially 4.53
accredited by NEASC in the spring of 2021 - only four years after first opening our Macroeconomics 3.63
2.74
campus. 4.71
Microeconomics 3.71

2017
2.96
4.17
Established in 2017
Physics 1 3.85
International, non-profit, day and boarding school 2.42
4.71
Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism 4.04

1056
3.47
4.8
Physics C: Mechanics 4.04
3.37
Co-educational PreK3-12
3.69
Total enrollment in 2021-2022 : 1056 Psychology 3.47
2.73

SCHOOL
4.47
Fall Semester : Aug. 11 - Jan.21 Statistics 3.59
2.84

CALENDAR
Spring Semester : Jan. 24 - Jun. 17
- School Total: 158 tests were taken by 84 different students
Graduation Date : Jun. 11
- School Average: 4.53 (out of 5) - Scores of 4 or 5: 87.34%

UNIVERSITY MATRICULATION- CLASS OF 2021

6 Where Students Matriculated

Canada, Japan, Singapore,
South Korea, The Netherlands, U.S.

30
Students Applied to 26 out of 50 States
California, Connecticut, D.C., Florida,
Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland,
Massachusetts, Minnesota, Michigan, Nevada,
New Hampshire, NJ, North Carolina, NY, Ohio,
Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee,

26 9
Texas, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin,

Students Matriculated to 11 out of the 26 States Where Students Applied

California, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore,
Michigan, New Hampshire, NY, Pennsylvania, Texas South Korea, The Netherlands, UK, U.S.

HEAD OF SCHOOL / Dr. Jeannie Sung / jeannie.sung@sjajeju.kr

HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL / Mr. Corey Johnson / corey.johnson@sjajeju.kr
HIGH SCHOOL ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL / Mr. Justin Boyd / justin.boyd@sjajeju.kr
DIRECTOR OF COLLEGE COUNSELING / Mr. Christopher Thomson / chris.thomson@sjajeju.kr
COLLEGE COUNSELOR / Ms. Jessica Lim / jessica.lim@sjajeju.kr
KOREAN COLLEGE COUNSELOR / Ms. Sunah Choi / sunah.choi@sjajeju.kr
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OUR MISSION
St. Johnsbury Academy Jeju is a diverse, comprehensive, and independent educational community grounded by our traditions, our deep optimism regarding young people,
and our commitment to academic excellence:

CHARACTER INQUIRY COMMUNITY

To teach good character by modeling and
fostering compassion, respect, responsibility,
and integrity.
To foster a love for learning by challenging
individuals to pursue knowledge, creativity,
and intellectual self-reliance.
To encourage each individual to understand
his or her relationships, rights, and responsi-
bilities within a community that is itself part
of the larger world. Our culture fosters a
tradition of respect for all members of our
community, regardless.

HS STUDENTS & HS FACULTY

09% 23%
Boarding Students
53%American
09%
Canadian
Other Nationalities

16%
91%
Korean
HS STUDENTS HS FACULTY

Korean Citizens

92% 22%
Other Nationalities
Hold an MA or above

332 High School Enrollment for 2021-2022 The Total Number of Faculty
(31 Overseas Faculty)
36
52 Class of 2022 Certified Faculty
100%
AFTERSCHOOL ACTIVITIES AND CLUBS EXCHANGE STUDENT PROGRAM WITH
The high school ASA program allows students to discover new interests and THE HOME SCHOOL
passions – with an emphasis on learning by doing. The ASA program
Each year, a group of students from SJA Jeju spends the fall semester
encourages students to explore new subjects, to dive deeper into familiar
studying and living at SJA Vermont. In the spring semester, we welcome
hobbies, and to use this after-school time to continue to learn and explore in
students from SJA Vermont to study at SJA Jeju. The exchange of students
a low-stakes setting. SJA Jeju offers about 50 activities (clubs) including Math
between the two schools enhances the academic and social culture of each
Club, Model UN, Red Cross Youth, Dance, Jazz Band, Art Club, Essay Writing,
school as exchange students naturally bring different perspectives and
SONOS, Rocket Engineering, TEDx and over 10 different sports.
experiences with them - both in our classrooms as students and as residents
in our boarding program.

ATHLETIC
SJA Jeju’s high school follows the GEC (Global Education City) sports
calendar and participates in KISAC (Korea International School Athletic
Conference) tournaments and athletic competitions. We are proud to offer
several team and individual sports including basketball, volleyball, badminton,
soccer, track & field, swimming, tennis, and table tennis.
SENIOR CAPSTONE
The culmination of all previous learning, Capstone serves as an opportunity
for students to demonstrate mastery of SJA Jeju standards as they prepare to
further their education, embark on their careers, and carry the overall SJA
Jeju experience into their personal and professional lives.

ARTS The principal expectations of a Capstone student is that he/she enter into
either a professional or an academic conversation about an idea/issue/topic,
The mission of the Fine and Performing Arts Departments is to offer
using research, problem solving interpersonal and communication skills; instill
instruction, resources, and a culture that inspires students to develop artistic
habits of professionalism and civil discourse; and develop a portfolio of work
awareness, creativity, and proficiency by providing a professional environment
that will exhibit skills and dispositions as they enter adulthood.
and a comprehensive curriculum in the visual and performing arts.

SJA Jeju believes that the exploratory creative process encourages cognitive
growth and builds problem-solving skills that promote resilience and flexible
thinking. SJA Jeju also holds an Annual Festival of the Arts every spring, and
the festival includes students’ visual, musical and dramatic presentations on
multiple locations throughout the campus. It merges with our Artists in
Residence (AiR) program that brings world-class artists from multiple
disciplines to the school.
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GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS
SJA Jeju students must complete 4 years of high school (grades 9-12) and accumulate a minimum of 28 credits (as outlined below) in order to earn and receive an SJA Jeju
HS Diploma.

English 4 1 Physical Education & Health

Science 3 1 Advanced Korean Language

Minimum Total
Math 3 Required 1 Advanced Korean History
(28 credits)
History 3 1 Senior Capstone

Fine & Performing Arts 2 9 Electives (core and non-core)

GPA
All letter grades are based on the 4.0 grading scale outlined on student transcripts. Grades are not weighted or scaled and students are not ranked. Reported GPA only
reflects courses taken at St. Johnsbury Academy Jeju. Transcripts will be provided for credits accrued from other institutions.

2021-2022 ACADEMIC COURSE OFFERINGS

SCIENCE MUSIC GLOBAL LANGUAGE ARTS

Biology Band Chinese I Acting for Film

Chemistry Chorus Chinese II Advanced Digital Photography

04
Integrated Science Chinese III Art Foundations
Music History
Physics Digital Photography
Music Production Chinese IV
Directing for Film
Spanish I
Strings Drama
ELECTIVES Spanish II
Film Editing

05 08
Spanish III
Filmmaking Foundations
Academic Foundations Spanish IV
Graphic Design
English Foundations
Yearbook Intermediate Art

03
ADVANCED PLACEMENT COURSES Intermediate Filmmaking

13
SJA Jeju offers 20 AP courses in the 2021-2022 school year for students that Intermediate Graphic Design
meet the prerequisites to take these courses:
Intro to Sculpture
AP 2-D Art and Design AP English Language and Composition
MATHMATICS AP 3-D Art and Design AP Human Geography
AP Biology AP Macroeconomics
AP Calculus AB AP Microeconomics
SOCIAL STUDIES
Algebra I AP Calculus BC AP Physics 1
Algebra II AP Chemistry AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism 20th Century History
Algebraic Foundations I AP Chinese Language and Culture AP Physics C: Mechanics History of Cinema

20
Algebraic Foundations II AP Computer Science A AP Psychology
AP Computer Science Principles AP Statistics US History
Geometric Foundations World History I

05
AP Drawing AP World History: Modern
Geometry World History II
Introduction to Statistics

09
Pre Calculus
KOREAN ENGLISH
Trigonometry
Advanced Korean History English 9 CAPSTONE
Advanced Korean Language and English 10
ENGINEERING

Computer Science Foundations

Literature
Korean Language and Literature
Korean Language, History, and
English 11
English 12
Modern Literature
Senior Capstone
01
Culture PE
Robotics Public Speaking
STEAM I Screenwriting for Film
Video Game Design
Web Design 05 04 07 Physical Education
01
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CLASS OF 2021 UNIVERSITY MATRICULATION(158)

(#) indicates number of acceptances

UNITED OF STATES

ArtCenter College of Design (1) Michigan State University (4) University of California, Riverside (1)
Babson College (1) New York University (3) University of California, San Diego (7)
Berklee College of Music (1) Northeastern University (2) University of California, Santa Barbara (2)
Boston University (2) Pennsylvania State University, University Park (4) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (3)
California College of the Arts (1) Pepperdine University (3) University of Iowa (1)
Case Western Reserve University (4) Pratt Institute (2) University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1)
Cornell University (1) Purdue University (3) University of Michigan (2)
Dartmouth College (1) Rhodes College (2) University of Richmond (2)
DigiPen Institute of Technology (1) Ringling College of Art and Design (1) University of Rochester (2)
Drexel University (2) Rutgers University, New Brunswick (1) University of San Francisco (1)
Emory University (2) School of the Art Institute of Chicago (3) University of Southern California (2)
Fordham University (1) School of Visual Arts (2) University of Texas, Austin (1)
George Washington University (2) Seattle University (1) University of Virginia (1)
Georgia Institute of Technology (3) SUNY at Albany (1) University of Washington (2)
Gettysburg College (1) Syracuse University (1) University of Wisconsin, Madison (2)
Indiana University Bloomington (3) The City University of New York John Jay College University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (1)
Johns Hopkins University (2) of Criminal Justice (1)
Lehigh University (1) The New School (2)
Macalester College (1) University of California, Berkeley (3)

128
Marist College (1) University of California, Davis (9)
Maryland Institute College of Art (3) University of California, Irvine (12)
Miami University, Oxford (1) University of California, Los Angeles (1)

109 1 1

CANADA

Acadia University (1) UNITED KINGDOM

Carleton University (1)
McGill University (1)
Mount Allison University (1)
Edinburgh College (1) HONG KONG JAPAN
King's College London (1)
Queen's University (1)

12 6 3 3
University College London (1)
University of King's College (1)
University of Bristol (1) Chinese University of Hong Kong (1) Hosei University (1)
University of Ottawa (1)
University of the West of England (1) City University of Hong Kong (1) International Christian University (1)
University of Toronto (4)
University of Warwick (1) The University of Hong Kong (1) Ritsumeikan University (1)
University of Victoria (1)

SINGAPORE SOUTH KOREA AUSTRALIA The NETHERLANDS

Yale-NUS (1)

Korean University Enrollment

2
National University of Singapore (1)

1
Yonsei University-Underwood (1)
1
Australian National University (1)
2
Technical University (TU) Delft (1)
University of Twente (1)

All Korean students at SJA Jeju fulfill the academic requirements to apply to Korean Universities. SJA Jeju works with each student who wants to apply to Korean Universities to support, prepare,
and submit the application. Korean Universities accept applications in the Fall following a student’s graduation.