Auckland International College

Infobox NZ school
name = Auckland International College
badge =
motto = "Pathway to the world"
principal = Anne Willmann
type = Private: Fully Reg. Co-Ed Secondary (Year 11-13) with Boarding Facilities (AIC Tower, AIC Loft), accredited IB World School.
established = July 2003
address = 85 Airedale Street, Auckland
Coordinates = 36°51'20.72"S, 174°45'54.34" E
roll = 340
decile = 9
MOE = 473
homepage = [http://www.aic.ac.nz www.aic.ac.nz]

Auckland International College (often abbreviated AIC) is a private coeducational secondary school in Auckland, New Zealand. It adopts the IB Diploma Programme as its sole curriculum. It also offers a Preparation Year Programme for IB Diploma course (Year 11) to allow students to prepare for the IB curriculum. Students in the Preparation Year programme can get a taste of all of the school's subject offerings. Activities, sports and a research project of 2,000 words form part of the Preparation Year programme. The school runs with a Northern Hemisphere timetable, as the school year commences in July, and students sit their final IB examinations in May.

AIC offers a wide range of subject choices in the standard IB "Hexagon" format:
- Group 1 : English A1, Japanese A1, Vietnamese A1, Korean A1, Chinese A1, and other languages A1 Self-taught
- Group 2 : English A2, English B, Japanese B, Chinese B, French B, Chinese "ab initio" and Spanish "ab initio"
- Group 3 : Economics, History, Geography, Information Technology in a Global Society (ITGS) and Environmental Systems*
- Group 4 : Biology, Physics, Chemistry and Environmental Systems *
- Group 5 : Mathematics and Mathematical Studies
- Group 6 : Visual Arts OR any other subject from the lists above

* Environmental Systems can fulfil the IB requirements for Group 3 and/or Group 4.

AIC has a sister school, the [http://www.aicj.ed.jp/ AICJ Oshu Gakuen] in Hiroshima, Japan, set up by the Oshu Corporation in April 2006.

History

*July 2003: AIC is established with the funding of the Oshu Corporation Japan; Carolyn Solomon is appointed as Principal.
*January 2006: Craig Monaghan takes over as Principal of AIC; Carolyn Solomon moves into the role of Executive Principal.
*May 2006: The inaugural Class of 2006 graduates from AIC. Two students (Imogene Scott and Naomi Jones) achieve the perfect score in the IB examinations, May 2006.
*December 2006: Craig Monaghan resigns as Principal; Roger Lewis is Acting Principal from January to April 2007.
*April 2007: Anne Willmann is appointed as AIC's new Principal.
*May 2008: The Dux for 2008, Natalie Kim, achieves a perfect score in the IB examinations.