Nishiyamato Academy offers its own Saturday school program, the Nishiyamato Academy Saturday School (西大和学園補習校 Nishiyamato gakuen hoshūkō) for the children of Japanese expatriates, who are enrolled in local primary or secondary day schools in Los Angeles metropolitan area.[7]
In 1994, Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District (PVPUSD) leased a set of classrooms at Dapplegray to Nishiyamato, on the condition that the school does not enroll over 30 students from that district's boundaries. PVPUSD wanted to ensure Nishiyamato did not remove too many students from its own student body and therefore the income the district obtained from the enrollment of said students. The classrooms obtained that time for Nishiyamato's use, numbering 10, was virtually the remaining lease-able area in Dapplegray.[9]
In September 2000, the school relocated to the current campus in Lomita.[2]
In 2017 the school established a 2,500-square-foot (230 m2) cultural center with computer labs, a stage that can move, and a library with a capacity of 5,000 books. The total cost was $500,000.[10]
Academics
Curriculum
NAC offers MEXT Curriculum Guideline-based curriculum mainly for the children of Japanese expatriates living in Los Angeles metropolitan area. Classes are held from Monday to Friday, with the first period of the day beginning at 8:30 AM and the last period ending at 3 PM for the kindergarten, 3:15 PM / 4:15 PM / 5 PM for the elementary school, and 4:20 PM / 6:10 PM for the middle school.[11]
Although subjects are instructed mainly in Japanese, Art / Visual Art, Home Economics, Technology, and ELA / ELD have been instructed in English as language immersion since the curriculum reform of recent years.[12]
Extracurricular activities
Nishiyamato Academy of California offers limited extracurricular activities due to normalized supplementary classes after the last period, and only club activities called Special Activities (特別活動, tokubetsu katsudō) are exercised once a week or two weeks.[11]
^"教育方針｜西大和学園平日校" [Educational Policies - Nishiyamato Academy Day School]. Nishiyamato Academy Day School (in Japanese). Nishiyamato Academy of California. Retrieved November 20, 2014.
^ abcd"概要｜西大和学園平日校" [Overview - Nishiyamato Academy Day School]. Nishiyamato Academy Day School (in Japanese). Nishiyamato Academy of California. Retrieved November 20, 2014.
^"授業料等 費用一覧｜西大和学園平日校" [Costs including tuition - Nishiyamato Academy Day School]. Nishiyamato Academy Day School (in Japanese). Nishiyamato Academy of California. Retrieved November 25, 2014.
^"西大和学園平日校" [Nishiyamato Academy Day School]. Nishiyamato Academy Day School. Nishiyamato Academy of California. Retrieved November 20, 2014.
^ ab"学園生活｜西大和学園平日校" [Academy Life - Nishiyamato Academy Day School]. Nishiyamato Academy Day School (in Japanese). Nishiyamato Academy of California. Retrieved November 25, 2014.
^"カリキュラム改革とその成果｜西大和学園平日校" [Curriculum Reform and Its Results - Nishiyamato Academy Day School]. Nishiyamato Academy Day School (in Japanese). Nishiyamato Academy of California. Retrieved November 20, 2014.
Schools with Japan system senior high school classes are marked with asterisks (*). Weekend/supplementary schools (hoshū jugyō kō) are located in a separate template
Turkey is not included in the classification of Europe by the Japanese Ministry of Education (MEXT). Nihonjin gakkō are day schools operated by Japanese associations and usually only include, within the Japanese system, primary and junior high school levels. Shiritsu zaigai kyōiku shisetsu are overseas branches of Japanese schools; these are boarding and day schools. MEXT categorizes Japanese sections of European international schools as hoshū jugyō kō part-time schools and not as full-time schools. See the template for part-time schools.
