Introduction
ICS accepts students from Playgroup to Grade 12. Students from Grade 1 are required to complete an entrance test to determine where they are at academically.
For more information on ICS admissions, please call the Admissions Office on:
+234 704 613 4514.
Email address: admissions@icsabuja.education or pfernando@icsabuja.education
Placement Information - Fact Sheet
The chart below is to help parents understand how our grade (class) system works in relation to other educational systems. All children joining the International Community School, from the age of 6, undergo a placement test to assess where their academic abilities lie. In ICS, we take into consideration their age and the results of their assessment. We use the Measure of Academic Progress (MAP) assessment method.
Age (by September) | ICS Grading (USA) | Nigerian System | British System | Notes |
2 | Playgroup | Playgroup | Nursery |
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3 | Preschool | Nursery 1 | Nursery |
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4 | Pre-kindergarten | Nursery 2 | Reception | Start of UK – Key Stage 1 |
5 | Kindergarten | Class 1 | Year 1 |
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6 | Grade 1 | Class 2 | Year 2 |
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7 | Grade 2 | Class 3 | Year 3 | Start of UK – Key Stage 2 |
8 | Grade 3 | Class 4 | Year 4 |
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9 | Grade 4 | Class 5 | Year 5 |
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10 | Grade 5 | Class 6 | Year 6 | Common Entrance Exams taken this year in the Nigerian System |
11 | Grade 6 | JSS 1 | Year 7 | Middle or Junior High School Start of UK – Key stage 3 First year of secondary school in Nigerian system |
12 | Grade 7 | JSS 2 | Year 8 |
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13 | Grade 8 | JSS 3 | Year 9 | Cambridge Checkpoint, JSS Exams in the Nigerian system |
14 | Grade 9 | SS 1 | Year 10 | High School Start of O-Level Start of UK – Key Stage 4 PSAT |
15 | Grade 10 | SS 2 | Year 11 | PSAT, IGCSE |
16 | Grade 11 | SS 3 | Year 12 | SAT, AP UK Start of A-Level WAEC in the Nigerian system |
17 | Grade 12 |
| Year 13 | SAT, AP UK second year of A-Level, JAMB in the Nigerian system |