The Independent Schools Foundation Academy

The ISF Academy offers a unique education in Hong Kong: a global orientation founded on Chinese-English bilingual immersion within a framework of traditional Chinese cultural values updated to be relevant in today’s world. Striking a balance between tradition and innovation, between East and West, The ISF Academy is a connected community of learners that is based on a vision of education where the power of ideas to shape lives is understood and respected, and where hope for a better, brighter future forms an essential driving force for learning.

We believe that an excellent education reaches both the heart and the head, combining challenge with accomplishment, matching experience to success. It charts the journey between aspiration and achievement, instilling values and virtues, inspiring courage and commitment, developing wisdom from intelligence.

ISF Academy students learn to embrace and exemplify the essential human values that form the philosophical foundation of our school: respect, compassion, balance, harmony, benevolence, commitment, courtesy, and integrity. They are also inquisitive about the world around them and their study programs are designed to encourage exploration, analysis, and reflection. ISF Academy students learn about our world from many different perspectives, and through a range of technologies, gaining not just knowledge, but also a practical framework of human values deeply rooted in Chinese culture.

Our students are the builders and shapers of tomorrow, equipped with the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values to make their own contribution to an interconnected global community; they speak more than one language, embrace technology, and move freely in both Chinese and Western cultural contexts.

The ISF Academy is a future focused school — tomorrow’s school — strongly grounded in Chinese cultural values, where the world is a classroom and learning is not constrained by differences of language and culture. We take great pride in our school and our mission. Our commitment to The ISF Academy community is to work in partnership with each child to develop their individual potential, to share their journey with its trials and challenges, and turn today’s dreams into tomorrow’s achievements.