Independent School of Jakarta Plans Senior Campus to Run Pupils Through to A-Levels

The Independent School of Jakarta will extend its British curriculum provision from Early Years through to A-Levels, according to an announcement from the school, removing a structural constraint that has long required families to transfer to other institutions once their children reached secondary age. A dedicated senior campus in Pondok Indah, South Jakarta, is set to open in 2028, 300 metres from ISJ's existing junior campus, and will house upper secondary years alongside a full A-Level programme.

The A-Level programme launches with 12 subjects: Mathematics, Further Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Economics, English Literature, History, Computer Science, Art, a Modern Foreign Language, and Music. The range is designed to support applications across medicine, engineering, law, the sciences, and the humanities. University guidance begins in Year 11, and the first cohort to sit A-Levels will be drawn from students currently in Year 7.

Ending the transfer problem

Eileen Fisher, head of ISJ, described the development as a direct response to one of the school's most consistent family concerns. "Now families can stay with us the whole way, through GCSEs, through A-Levels, and on to university, with the same values," she said. Jakarta's British school market has historically had a structural gap at secondary level, with stronger supply of primary provision than of schools that carry pupils all the way through to examination qualifications under a single roof.

ISJ currently educates children from Early Years Foundation Stage through to Year 8, with pupils scoring in the top 10 per cent of international schools worldwide on standardised assessments. Class sizes run to 15 in Early Years and 20 from Year 1 upward, a ratio that sits below most of Jakarta's larger British competitors. The new senior campus is being sized to preserve that model rather than scale up cohort numbers.

Networks and next steps

ISJ is governed by The Schools Trust, a UK-registered charity that operates 16 British international schools across 11 countries, with graduates historically securing places at Oxford, Cambridge, Stanford, and Princeton. The Pondok Indah campus will include science and technology laboratories, art and music studios, a theatre, a secondary library, and a football pitch.

Jakarta's international secondary market has seen considerable movement in 2026, with Wellington College Independent School and Nord Anglia School Jakarta both expanding their senior provision this year. ISJ's extension into A-Levels adds another British operator with examination-level courses to the city's landscape, and is likely to be watched closely by families who had previously assumed they would need to change schools once their children reached Year 9.