Morrison Academy Kaohsiung

24°11′12.21″N 120°40′48.33″E / 24.1867250°N 120.6800917°E / 24.1867250; 120.6800917

Morrison Academy Kaohsiung 馬禮遜學校高雄分校
Entrance to Morrison Academy Kaohsiung
Address
42 Chia Cheng Rd. Dashe District , Kaohsiung 81546 Taiwan
Information
Type	Private International School Christian School
Motto	"Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." -- John 8:32
Established	1974
Superintendent	Julie Heinsman
Principal	Dr. Dan Kim
Faculty	54
Grades	Kindergarten-12th grade
Number of students	263
Campus	Suburb
Color(s)	Red and black
Mascot	Shark
Accreditation	ACSI, WASC
Phone	+886-7-356-1190
Website	kaohsiung.mca.org.tw

Morrison Academy Kaohsiung (MAK) is a K–12 Christian International school in Dashe District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. It is the southern satellite school of the Morrison Academy school system.

The school is jointly accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges and the Association of Christian Schools International.^[1][2]

Campus

Following its establishment, the campus moved twice. The current MAK campus is located in Dashe District, a suburban district of Kaohsiung City, about a 20-minute drive from downtown Kaohsiung. The campus was built in 2000 on land leased from the Taiwan Sugar Corporation.^{[citation needed]}

MAK facilities include:

• 20 classrooms equipped with LCD projectors, TVs, Chromecast, and Apple TVs
• two music rooms ready for band and strings Orchestra
• a library
• a computer lab and multi-media lab
• two science labs
• an air-conditioned, indoor gymnasium
• an outdoor basketball/volleyball court
• two soccer fields
• a 300-meter sand-and-concrete track
• a weight/fitness room
• an outdoor covered play area
• a makerspace and tinker lab

Student Body

The K-12 enrollment at MAK is about 380 (as of 2019). The faculty to student ratio is about 1:5.^{[citation needed]}

History

Morrison Christian Academy started over 50 years ago in Taichung in a bamboo hut with six children. Soon after its inception, missionary groups quickly got organized and expanded this school to thirty-five students, and named the school after Robert Morrison, the first Protestant missionary to Mainland China.

In Kaohsiung, many missionary children went to the U.S. Department of Defense School,^{[clarification needed]} but when it closed in 1974, they were without a school. Morrison Academy opened a K-8 school (called Morrison Academy Kaohsiung) near Cheng Ching Lake.

In two years, the school grew from three teachers and thirty-three students to four teachers and forty-five students. The school expanded further by building a six-classroom school at Kao Tan^[where?]. The school moved again in 1996, back to Cheng Ching Lake and shared a campus with the Da Hua Elementary School in Fengshan. In 2000, they opened the current MAK campus.^{[citation needed]}

See also

• Education in Taiwan

References

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This page was last edited on 27 September 2023, at 03:53