Kevin Held

Taipei American School

Taipei American School is an independent, coeducational day school for students from more than 30 nationalities from Pre-K through grade 12. An innovative 21st century learning community, TAS's mission is to inspire each student to be a confident, creative, caring, and moral individual prepared to adapt and succeed anywhere in a rapidly changing world. TAS provides an American-based education with a global perspective that results in a love of learning, academic excellence, a balanced life, and service to others. Enrollment is 2,291 (820 lower school, 586 middle school, and 885 upper school).\\The school is located in Tien Mu, a suburb of Taipei, Taiwan. The school occupies a campus of approximately 15 acres. The campus is wireless to service our IT needs as a one-to-one laptop school in grade 5, and the middle and upper schools. The school has approximately 200 classrooms. The campus also features a four-story library / IT / media complex, music and art facilities, 3 dance studios, and 3 theaters, 3 gyms, tennis courts, a track, 2 playing fields, and a 25-meter indoor swimming pool. The cafeteria, pizza bar, Village Snack Bar, and Fitness Cafe serve nearly 3,000 patrons per day. The Upper School Science and Technology Building opened in 2012, and features state of the art science and robotics labs, new classrooms equipped with cutting-edge technology, and a lecture hall. The new Liu Lim Arts Center opened in August 2013, along with the new Tiger Health and Wellness Center.