The International Christian Academy of Nagoya (ICAN; ja, 一般財団法人インターナショナル・クリスチャン・アカデミー名古屋) was an international school that was located in the city of

Nagakute is a city located in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 61,503 in 24,352 households, and a population density of 2,854 persons per km2. The total area of the city is . Nagakute is a member of the World Health Organ ...

, a suburb of

Nagoya is the largest city in the Chūbu region, the fourth-most populous city and third most populous urban area in Japan, with a population of 2.3million in 2020. Located on the Pacific coast in central Honshu, it is the capital and the most po ...

Aichi is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshū. Aichi Prefecture has a population of 7,552,873 () and a geographic area of with a population density of . Aichi Prefecture borders Mie Prefecture to the west, Gifu Prefecture ...

, Japan. It was founded in 1991 as the Christian Academy of Nagoya. ICAN has been managed by the

Network of International Christian Schools The Network of International Christian Schools (NICS) is an organization that consists of 15 schools in 13 countries in Asia, Africa, South America, Europe and includes an online school in North America. There are plans in the works for more school ...

(NICS) since 2001. The school closed as of 2021. ICAN had class offerings from offering pre-kindergarten through grade 12, and used North American curriculum, with accreditations from both the

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(WASC) and the Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI). ICAN was also the 2012

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champion in the Bowl Division as a team and its students won the top three spots in the 2012 Bee Division for the Japan Division.

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External links

International Christian Academy of Nagoya
- Official Site (Archived version on the

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