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The American School of Bombay expects an enrollment of approximately 700 students, Early Childhood through grade 12 for the current school year. The student body is multinational consisting of 40 nationalities, including 28% Americans, 13% host country, and 59% third country nationals.

The school in managed by the American School of Bombay Education Trust set up under the terms and conditions laid down by the Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi. The school is governed by a Board of Trustees elected by the parents and faculty. The American Consul General is the chairman of the Board of Trustees and appoints two other members. ASB's structure, curriculum methods, and general approach utilize the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Program (IB PYP), Middle School Concept, and International Baccalaureate Diploma Programs (IB DP).

ASB employs a highly qualified, professionally trained team of classroom teachers, instructional assistants, support and clerical staff, two librarians and 3 nurses. Additionally, a pediatrician serves as medical advisor to ASB. For the current academic we have 216 full-time employees of which 82 are overseas trained teachers.

Specialist teachers are provided for French, Spanish, Drama, Music, Art, PE, and Technology for grades ECEC (Early Childhood Education Center) through grade 12. ASB's innovative wireless laptop program is well established in the secondary school where all students in grades 6-12 use Tablet PC's as an instrument of learning throughout the curriculum.

The facilities include a a one-of-its-kind campus-wide wireless LAN (Wi-Fi) network. The school offers comprehensive after-school Activities (ASB-E3) and athletics programs. The ASB-E3 program includes, among other things: arts and crafts, cooking, Hindi, taekwondo, robotics, forensics, cricket and many others. The athletics program includes track and field, soccer, tennis, volleyball, basketball, badminton and swimming. In addition, ASB actively participates in global music festivals, choral festivals, MUN and ISTA.

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