Morrison Academy Kaohsiung (MAK) is a K–12 Christian International school in

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. It is the southern satellite school of the

Morrison Academy Morrison Academy () is an international Christian school founded 1952 in Taichung, Taiwan. It primarily caters to the children of missionaries. Beyond the original Taichung location it also maintains a campus in Taipei and Morrison Academy Kaoh ...

school system. The school is jointly

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by the

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and the

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Campus

Following its establishment, the campus moved twice. The current MAK campus is located in

, a suburban district of Kaohsiung City, about a 20-minute drive from downtown Kaohsiung. The campus was built in 2000 on land leased from the

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. MAK facilities include: *20 classrooms equipped with LCD projectors, TVs, Chromecast, and

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s *two music rooms ready for band and strings Orchestra *a library *a computer lab and multi-media lab *two science labs *an air-conditioned, indoor gymnasium *an outdoor basketball/volleyball court *two soccer fields *a 300-meter sand-and-concrete track *a weight/fitness room *an outdoor covered play area *a makerspace and tinker lab

Student Body

The K-12 enrollment at MAK is about 380 (as of 2019). The faculty to student ratio is about 1:5.

History

Morrison Christian Academy started over 50 years ago in Taichung in a bamboo hut with six children. Soon after its inception missionary groups quickly got organized and expanded this school to a whopping thirty-five students, and named their creation after Robert Morrison, the first

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missionary to Mainland China. In Kaohsiung, many missionary kids went to the U.S. Department of Defense School, but when it closed in 1974, they were without a school. Morrison Academy stepped in to fill that need and opened a K-8 school (called Morrison Academy Kaohsiung) near Cheng Ching Lake. In two years, it grew from three teachers and thirty-three students to four teachers and forty-five students. Missionary kids kept coming, and they built a six-classroom school at Kao Tan to hold them all. Even this school, however, could not hold the growing enrollment, so they moved again in 1996, back to Cheng Ching Lake and shared a campus with the Da Hua Elementary School in Fengshan. In 2000, they opened the current MAK campus.

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Campus

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