New Jersey Japanese School


The New Jersey Japanese School is a private school, Japanese school located in Oakland, New Jersey, United States in the New York City metropolitan area. It is one of the two Japanese day schools operated by the Japanese Educational Institute of New York, a nonprofit organization which also operates two Japanese weekend school systems in the New York City area.
The school's students are Japanese expatriates. It has 53 students in grades 1-9 with a student-teacher ratio of 4 to 1. The goal of the school is to prepare them for the Japanese educational system when the students eventually return to Japan. It occupies space rented from the Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church. it had 90 students.

History

The Japanese School of New York established a branch campus in New Jersey on April 1, 1992, with grades one through four. On April 1, 1999, the branch campus became its own school, The New Jersey Japanese School.