NAS Jakarta Opens Secondary School, Completing Its Through-School Journey

Nord Anglia School (NAS) Jakarta has this month opened a purpose-built secondary block and enrolled its inaugural Year 7 class, completing the school's transformation from an early years and primary setting into a full through-school. According to NOW! Jakarta, the expansion was driven by sustained pressure from existing families who did not want to move their children at the end of Year 6.

The new secondary building includes a science laboratory, an art and design studio, a dedicated reading and study space, a social area, and purpose-configured classrooms for lower secondary students. Principal Rosy Clark has described the opening as allowing the school to support students through the next stage of their learning journey "all within the NAS Jakarta community."

What it means for families in Jakarta

For internationally mobile families in the Indonesian capital, the addition removes one of the most common friction points at British-curriculum schools: the requirement to change institutions at the end of primary. NAS Jakarta has historically attracted young families; the secondary programme gives that cohort continuity and strengthens the school's proposition against larger, more established through-school competitors elsewhere in the city.

Demand for quality international secondary provision in Jakarta has grown alongside rising enrolment from affluent Indonesian families seeking British or international curriculum pathways through to Year 13. NAS Jakarta will add year groups progressively as the founding cohort moves through the school. The opening of Year 7 is, for now, the milestone that parents had been waiting for since the secondary project was first announced.