Founded
2011

First learners at Ulu Pandan, July 2011

Curriculum
IB PYP → IGCSE → IB DP

MYP-framed middle years, Edexcel IGCSE at 16

Campus
1 Aljunied Walk

Purpose-built 12-storey vertical campus since January 2020

Students
~1,500

About 60 nationalities; none over 15% of the roll

Ownership
Taylor's Education Group

Malaysian private education group

Signature
Swimming + tech

Olympic pool; Apple Distinguished School

The short version

The short version

Nexus International School (Singapore) teaches around 1,500 students of about 60 nationalities, aged 3 to 18, in a purpose-built 12-storey campus at 1 Aljunied Walk, a short walk from Aljunied MRT.

Founded in 2011 and owned by Malaysia’s Taylor’s Education Group, it runs the IB Primary Years Programme, a middle-years bridge into Edexcel IGCSEs in Years 10–11, and the IB Diploma in Years 12–13.↗↗

For an expat family, the practical summary is this: Nexus offers an IB-anchored pathway at mid-premium fees in one of Singapore’s most interesting school buildings, with sibling discounts that genuinely reward larger families and scholarships worth up to a full ride for academics and swimmers.

The watch-items: waitlists in popular year groups, full-semester fees even for mid-semester joiners, and a learning-support model that is case-by-case rather than structural.

What the school is

Taylor’s Malaysian money, a campus designed by teachers

Nexus enrolled its first learners in July 2011 at Ulu Pandan with over 900 students — a big opening by Singapore standards — and spent eight years building out its curriculum stack and accreditations before moving, in January 2020, to its current home.

The owner is Taylor’s Education Group, the Malaysian private education company behind Taylor’s University and a family of schools in Malaysia.↗↗

The Aljunied campus is the school’s thesis statement: a 12-storey vertical building for about 2,000 learners, designed with staff input around open-plan “learning hubs” instead of corridors of classrooms — primary on the lower floors, shared library, sports and play decks in the middle, secondary above.

It holds an Aquatics Centre with an Olympic-sized pool (Omega touchpads, warm-up pool, land-training area), a FIFA- and World Rugby-certified Astroturf field, a two-storey auditorium, black-box theatres, a Science Mega Lab and music studios.↗

The credentials are conventional and in order: authorised IB World School for the PYP and Diploma, a Cambridge examination centre, joint CIS/WASC accreditation since 2017, four-year EduTrust certification, and Apple Distinguished School status for its 1:1 technology integration. Simon Mann has been head of school since August 2024.↗↗

Academics in practice

An IB sandwich with an IGCSE filling

Nexus’s pathway is a hybrid worth understanding before you compare it with full-continuum IB schools: IB PYP in primary, an MYP-framed programme in Years 7–9, then Edexcel IGCSE examinations in Years 10–11 — not the MYP eAssessment — before the IB Diploma in Years 12–13.

For families who like the IB but want externally examined credentials at 16, this is a genuine structural advantage over pure-PYP–MYP–DP schools.↗

Diversity is engineered, not incidental: The Good Schools Guide reports that no single nationality exceeds 15% of the roll and every classroom mixes at least eight nationalities — unusually strict balancing for a corporate school.

The school’s English-support model (the BML programme) runs two tiers, with intensive students receiving up to 22 sessions a week while staying in mainstream classes for subjects like art, music and PE.↗

Sport is the public signature: the aquatics centre has hosted FINA Swimming World Cup meets since 2017, and the school competes across the ACSIS league with over 90 co-curricular activities.

On academics, one transparency note: we could not find a published IB Diploma average for recent cohorts — ask for the results sheet, with cohort size, when you visit.↗

Fees and the real cost

Mid-premium tuition, top-tier sibling discounts

Nexus publishes its initial fees explicitly, GST-inclusive: an S$1,090 application fee, an S$5,123 enrolment fee due when a place is offered, and an annual development levy of S$2,000 charged every year in the first semester — all strictly non-refundable and non-transferable.

The levy is not pro-rated, so a January joiner pays the same S$2,000 as an August joiner.↗

Course fees for 2026-27 are quoted through the school’s calculator; directories put the range at roughly S$26,600 in Nursery to S$50,800 in Year 13, with International Schools Database recording totals (including the levy) of about S$44,600 in lower primary, S$46,800 at Year 5, S$49,400 in Years 7–8 and S$52,800 in the diploma years.

For orientation, the official 2025-26 schedule charged S$39,000 (Year 1), S$43,200 (Years 6–7), S$47,800 (Years 10–11) and S$49,000 (Years 12–13).↗↗↗

The sibling mechanics are among the most generous in the city and apply from the second child: 3% off course fees for child two, 15% for child three, 25% for child four. For a three-child family that is a structural saving most premium schools only offer from the third child.↗

Support is billed separately by semester on the current published schedule: EAL at S$3,000 (additional), S$5,000 (intensive) or S$6,000 (foundation), and learning support at S$3,000 (Tier 2) or S$5,000 (Tier 3).

Two payment rules catch families out: new students enrolled before mid-semester pay the full semester’s course fee, and credit-card payments carry a 2.5% administrative fee (international families can use Flywire).↗↗

Admissions and the family experience

Waitlists in the popular years — and scholarships worth chasing

Nexus runs waitlists in its more popular year groups, so early application matters despite rolling admissions.

The counterweight is the scholarship programme: academic and swimming scholarships cover 25% to 100% of tuition for two years at a time — rare at this fee level and worth asking about explicitly if your child is a strong student or a competitive swimmer.↗

Day to day, the school runs August to June over four terms, 8:15am to 3:20pm.

Boarding is reported to be available weekly and full-time from age 12 — unusual for a central Singapore campus — but we could not confirm the arrangement on the school’s own site this pass; verify directly if it matters to your plans.

The Aljunied location is one of the most MRT-convenient in the international-school sector, sitting between the city and the east.↗↗

Our readConfidence: Medium

A well-designed IB hybrid at a fair price — ask for the results sheet

Our confidence is Medium: the initial fees, levy, sibling discounts, payment rules and 2025-26 course and support fees are documented first-party, and the campus, curriculum structure and ownership are consistently corroborated.

What we could not verify first-party this pass is the exact 2026-27 course-fee table (the school renders it via a calculator widget) and any recent IB Diploma average — the two numbers you should request in writing from admissions.

The families Nexus suits: those who want an IB-anchored education with the insurance of IGCSE grades at 16; larger families who can exploit the second-child-onward sibling discounts; competitive swimmers; and families living central-east who want a short commute.

The families it suits less well: those needing deep, guaranteed SEN provision (support here is tiered and case-by-case — see Dover Court for the structural alternative), and those set on the pure IB continuum end to end. On design, price mechanics and diversity engineering, Nexus punches above its fee band.

Take these to the school

Questions that move beyond the tour script

Admissions and availability

  1. For our child’s year group, is there currently a waitlist — and how does it move through the year?
  2. What does the scholarship application involve for academics and swimming, and when are awards decided?
  3. What would our child’s English-support assessment involve, and which BML tier would likely apply?

Academics

  1. May we see the last three years of IB Diploma results and IGCSE outcomes, with cohort sizes?
  2. How is the transition from the MYP-framed middle years into IGCSE courses managed in Year 10?
  3. How do the open learning hubs work in practice for children who find busy environments hard — what quieter spaces exist?

Cost and logistics

  1. Can you confirm our exact 2026-27 course fee by year level, plus the development levy, as a written quotation?
  2. How do the sibling discounts apply to our children’s specific year levels, and do they continue if one child graduates?
  3. Is boarding currently offered, from what age, and at what cost — and which bus routes serve our shortlisted neighbourhoods?

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