is a private,

co-educational Mixed-sex education, also known as mixed-gender education, co-education, or coeducation (abbreviated to co-ed or coed), is a system of education where males and females are educated together. Whereas single-sex education was more common up to t ...

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in Nishi Izumi, Izumi, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. Izumi Chuo was founded in 1950 and renamed Izumi Chuo High School in 1985. There are students from farther away (including

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); so there are dormitories for both female and male students. Students usually refer to Izumi Chuo High School as "Chuo" or Izumi Chuo" outside of school.

Departments

;General Department * General Studies :*Students focus on general education and sports. *

Liberal Arts Liberal arts education (from Latin "free" and "art or principled practice") is the traditional academic course in Western higher education. ''Liberal arts'' takes the term '' art'' in the sense of a learned skill rather than specifically th ...

Studies :*Students focus on both sports and studies, especially English studies. :*The Liberal Art Studies Department has been hosting exchange students since 1988. :*Most of the exchange students have been from Australia. :*The 2nd-year class has a 12-day class trip to Australia (

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and sometimes Sydney) each year. :*The Liberal Arts Department also has a partnership with

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in the U.S. :*In the early 1990s, the Liberal Arts Department hosted faculty members from Santa Monica College. * Special Advanced Studies :*Students rarely join any other clubs, for they focus most of their time at school (including club time) on studying. ;Department of Health and Welfare * Health and Welfare Studies :*Students study a branch of

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. ;

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Department * Foundation Courses (high school) * Specialized Courses (post-high school, 2-year program)

Clubs

Clubs with honors

* Brass Band Club :*The building that holds brass band was rebuilt in 2006. *

Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding t ...

* Men's Soccer * Women's and Men's

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Other clubs (incomplete list)

* Women's and Men's

Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...

* Women's and Men's

Tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

* Women's and Men's

Badminton Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per side) and "doubles" (with two players p ...

* Women's and Men's

Ping Pong Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...

* Archery *

Softball Softball is a game similar to baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Softball is played competitively at club levels, the college level, and the professional level. The game was first created in 1887 in Chicago by George Hanc ...

* English Club *

Art Art is a diverse range of human activity, and resulting product, that involves creative or imaginative talent expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas. There is no generally agreed definition of wha ...

Club * Cooking Club

Gallery

File:ICgarden.jpg, One of Izumi Chuo's Gardens File:L2class.jpg, One of Izumi Chuo's Classrooms

References

External links

* High schools in Kagoshima Prefecture Educational institutions established in 1950 Private schools in Japan 1950 establishments in Japan {{Japan-school-stub

Departments

Clubs

Clubs with honors

Other clubs (incomplete list)

Gallery

See also

References

External links