Our Campus
AISC is home to over 80 teaching spaces for students aged 3–18. Starting in the summer of 2016, AISC began a 5-year Building Futures 2020 plan that looks to renovate the vast majority of our teaching spaces, with improved lighting, carpet, acoustics, and storage. These new spaces are flexible and filled with adjustable, easy-to-move furniture.
In the Classroom
AISC has many unique learning spaces that are specially designed.
In the Elementary School, the Discovery Studio offers students a chance to create and innovate, using mostly recycled materials. Elementary School classrooms feature flexible and movable seating, classroom libraries, and areas for individual and small-group instruction. Our youngest learners can also take advantage of our dance and gymnastics studio, the teaching kitchen, our purpose-built music spaces, and the Outdoor Learning Center for Early Years students.
The Design Technology Lab for middle and high school students is filled with robotics, computer-aided design stations, 3D printers, laser cutters, and many other high-end tools to allow students to create sophisticated solutions to their challenges. Of course, our Early Years classrooms are open and flexible with natural coloring and places to explore.
Spaces for Fitness and Wellbeing
We have a fully equipped fitness center that is used by the entire community. During the school day, students work on their strength training and take advantage of the in-built dance studio. The fitness center is just one of ten indoor and outdoor spaces used for teaching health, wellbeing and physical education.
Spaces for Creativity
The Fine Arts Center (FAC) includes a 850-seat theater with state-of-the-art stage and lighting, a massive atrium gallery space for student and faculty exhibitions, dedicated choral and instrumental classrooms and rehearsal spaces, and a recording studio for small ensembles and high-end digital post-production work.
Our FAC art studios emphasize new technology as well as traditional craftsmanship. Our artists explore the world of digital art and animation, investigate and innovate in numerous fine art mediums, and also learn and practice in our professional ceramics studio.
Our goals for all of our learning spaces are that they are well-resourced, flexible, and provide an environment that inspires.
Around AISC
The AISC campus covers 13 acres and includes numerous outdoor spaces for collaboration and enjoyment. At the heart of our campus, you'll find our newly re-designed track and soccer pitch, which is in constant use by our students. Next to the track, you'll find our 25-meter swimming pool that all physical education classes use throughout the year, and that almost 150 swimmers compete in over the year.
Excellent Inside and Out
As Chennai has great weather all year round, we have outdoor spaces designed to sit and enjoy each other's company, as seen with the High School Commons and the Unity Courtyard. You'll find several places to relax inside and get something to eat as we have two cafés, one for students and one for adults, as well as two cafeterias for meals.
We also have a large elementary school playground and Outdoor Learning Center for the younger grades. And what would a school be without a library? We have two libraries filled with over 60,000 resources available for our community! As AISC is more than just a school, it's a community center, campus is a haven for students, parents and faculty.
LEED Platinum
AISC has made efforts to be an intentionally eco-friendly school. We have a responsibility to model this core value and practice what we hope students will live as well. As a celebration of our efforts, we were awarded Platinum status by LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design), making us the first K-12 school in the world to achieve this status using the real-time ARC platform. Our Platinum status comes from our score on 5 categories: Energy, Water, Waste, Human Experience and Transportation. Our efforts towards energy can be seen with our commitment to renewable energy.
We currently have over 950 solar panels around campus that provide up to 22% of our daily power. We also try to reduce our energy use by installing motion sensor lights that turn off automatically. For water, we have a catchment that captures the rainfall, and we use that to water plants around campus, and we use it for toilet flushes. We also use a chemical free, German-engineered water treatment process.
For waste, we recycle as much as possible. We have recycle bins around campus, but we also recycle materials that come from our campus renewal. The mounds in the Elementary school yard came from construction debris. We also reuse scrap wood from our carpentry shop. We are also using our organic waste in our community garden. Recently, we've been reducing our consumption of single-use plastic. We no longer use plastic straws or utensils.
While we are proud of our environmental efforts, we are not done! We are always looking for ways that we as a campus can be more eco-friendly, and we hope that our efforts will inspire the generations to come.
Stories of Campus Life