Kang Chiao's Linkou campus (KCISLK) is the group's one site that runs the whole span, kindergarten through Grade 12, on a single campus in Linkou New Town, and the school makes a point of it: by its own account the only school in Taiwan to do so. For a family, that means a child can enter at kindergarten and never change school, which is the campus's central promise.
The decision that matters most comes later. At Grade 7 every student chooses between two secondary tracks: the Standard Program, a bilingual Taiwan-curriculum track aimed mainly at Taiwanese universities, and the International Program, aligned to the American secondary curriculum and carrying Advanced Placement courses toward universities overseas. That fork, not the entrance assessment, is the real choice a Linkou family makes. One thing to settle early, because the group's name invites the confusion: this campus offers AP and not the IB Diploma. The IB belongs to Kang Chiao's Xiugang campus in Xindian, which has its own guide.
The families who look at Linkou are, for the most part, Taiwanese families who hold only ROC passports. Taiwan's foreign schools, including the two nearest, Asia American International Academy in Linkou and Taoyuan American School, are closed to them. Kang Chiao is a Taiwanese private school and admits them, so it is often the first name on a local family's list, and for a family in Linkou, Guishan, or the Taoyuan corridor it is also the nearest large campus of its kind.
The questions that follow are about the fork. Which track fits a child who has not yet decided between a Taiwanese university and one abroad. Whether the International Program's AP roster is wide enough. What the Grade 7 and Grade 10 assessments test, since entry is at those two points and places depend on vacancies. We work with these families remotely or in person at our academy in Taipei, the same way we teach families across roughly eight countries, and the part we see is readiness: the English the assessment measures, and, for a child arriving from an English-medium school, the Chinese that both tracks require.
The orienting facts, each drawn from the Linkou campus's own pages and checked in September 2026. This guide is about the Linkou campus alone. Where a fact is the group's rather than the campus's, it says so.
KCISLK is a Taiwanese private school, which is why it can admit the local-national families the foreign schools cannot. It holds WASC accreditation, is authorized by the College Board to offer Advanced Placement, and serves as an official SAT test center. It offers AP and not the International Baccalaureate, which is available at the group's Xiugang campus. And it publishes no fees on its own website, so this guide carries none.
Kang Chiao does not publish a fee schedule for the Linkou campus on any of its own websites. Figures circulate on directory and consultancy sites, and this guide does not repeat them, because none is the school's own. What follows is what the campus does state.
| Item | Status |
|---|---|
| Tuition, all grades | Not published by the school. Confirm with the campus admissions office |
| Application fee | Not published by the school |
| Boarding | Offered. Fee not published |
| School bus | Offered across Taipei, New Taipei, and Taoyuan, 79 routes by the group's count, plus a boarding shuttle. Fee not published |
| Meals, uniform | Provided. Fees not published |
Checked September 2026 across the campus site, the admissions site, and the group site. Elementary admissions +886 2 8512 8006, secondary admissions +886 2 8512 8004.
| Grades served | Kindergarten to Grade 12 on one campus |
|---|---|
| Enrollment | Not published as a current figure. The campus's archived 2022 to 2023 profile stated 711 students |
| New entry points | Grade 7 and Grade 10 for the secondary school. Other grades by transfer, subject to vacancies |
| Secondary tracks | Standard Program (bilingual, Taiwan curriculum, mainly domestic universities). International Program (American-aligned, Advanced Placement, mainly overseas) |
| Advanced Placement | Eight subjects named on the campus's secondary page: Calculus, Statistics, Psychology, Biology, Chemistry, Economics, English Literature, Writing. The student handbook also names AP Chinese and AP 2-D Design |
| International Baccalaureate | Not offered at Linkou. Offered at the Xiugang campus |
| Accreditation and memberships | WASC, six-year term. College Board authorized for AP. Official SAT test center. Member of EARCOS |
| Assessment | Grade 7: English, mathematics, aptitude interview. Grade 10: English, aptitude interview, academic interview. Non-Taiwanese applicants: Chinese-language test |
| Eligibility | Open. Taiwanese and foreign students admitted. Non-Taiwanese applicants provide a residency permit and health check |
| Graduate credential | A Taiwan Ministry of Education junior or senior high school diploma, for both tracks, per the student handbook |
| University destinations | Published on the campus honor roll, separately for each track. Full lists as images |
Where a row reads "not published," the fact does not appear on any page the campus publishes. Directory sites list a range of tuition figures for this campus. None is the school's, and none is carried here.
Linkou is the newest of Kang Chiao's Taiwan campuses, and it was built to do something the older ones do not: hold a child from kindergarten to Grade 12 on one site.
Kang Chiao International School belongs to the Kang Hsuan educational publishing group, one of Taiwan's largest textbook publishers, and its Xindian campuses had been operating for the better part of two decades when the group's school board applied in 2016 to open a senior high school in Linkou. The campus's own pages give 2017 as its opening year. The group's history is more granular, recording groundbreaking in April 2017, the preschool enrolling that September, and the elementary and secondary divisions registering and enrolling in August 2018, while an archived school profile says 2018. The dates describe one staged opening rather than a contradiction, and this guide cites them all.
The campus sits on roughly four hectares in Linkou New Town, planned, in the school's words, around energy conservation and a green campus. Five interconnected buildings hold the elementary and secondary schools, a gymnasium, a performing arts center, and a dormitory, with a concert hall, theater, indoor pool, library, science laboratories, an English Village, and, a Kang Chiao signature, a golf driving range. Its recognition arrived in the campus's own recent history: WASC accreditation, following a committee visit in April 2025 and confirmed that June, alongside College Board authorization for AP and SAT test-center status.
Elementary years are bilingual immersion. From Grade 7 the school divides into the two programs that give the campus its shape, and the choice between them is the one a family should understand before anything else.
The Standard Program is the bilingual track. It follows the Taiwan curriculum with intensified English and, in the campus's words, focuses primarily on domestic university pathways while also supporting overseas study. A Standard Program student sits Taiwan's own examinations and applies to Taiwanese universities through the domestic system, with a stronger English foundation than a local school gives. The International Program is aligned to the American secondary curriculum. After foundational American middle and high school courses, its students may take Advanced Placement, and it points toward universities abroad. The campus names eight AP subjects on its secondary page, Calculus, Statistics, Psychology, Biology, Chemistry, Economics, English Literature, and Writing, and its student handbook adds AP Chinese Language and Culture and AP 2-D Design.
Two facts sit underneath the tracks and matter equally. Both lead to the same credential, a Taiwan Ministry of Education junior or senior high school diploma, so an International Program student leaves with a recognized Taiwanese qualification alongside an American-style transcript and AP scores. And the campus is an AP school, not an IB one. The group's IB Diploma and Middle Years programs run at the Xiugang campus in Xindian, a separate school with its own admissions, and a family who wants the IB should look there. The campus describes its teaching through a holistic learner model built on six capacities, critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, communication, character, and cultural responsiveness, and runs its classrooms on smart boards and the Canvas learning platform.
The campus publishes its outcomes track by track, which is the honest way to read them, since the two programs aim at different university systems.
On recognition, the position is clear. The campus holds a six-year WASC accreditation, the association's longest term, granted after a committee visit in April 2025 and confirmed that June. It is authorized by the College Board to offer AP courses and serves as an official SAT test center, and it is a member of the East Asia Regional Council of Schools. That is a full set of the recognitions a family looks for in an American-aligned program, with one absence to be clear about: no IB authorization, because the campus does not run the IB.
On outcomes, the campus honor roll separates the International Program's overseas admissions from the Standard Program's domestic ones. For 2026 the named International Program destinations include Cornell University, which the campus describes as its first Ivy League admission, the University of Hong Kong, and UCLA. The Standard Program's named destinations include National Taiwan University, through the Stars recommendation route, and National Tsing Hua University. The full lists for both tracks are published as images rather than text, so this guide names only the destinations the campus states in words. Read the honor roll as the campus intends: a list of admissions offers, not a per-student record. The campus does not currently publish its enrollment, and it does not publish AP score data.
Secondary entry is at two points, Grade 7 and Grade 10, with other grades filled by transfer where a place exists. The campus runs the process in stages. A family registers online for a Get to Know KCISLK orientation and campus tour, and attending it gives priority access to register for the Ability Assessment that follows. For Grade 7 the assessment covers English, mathematics, and an aptitude interview, and requires the child's elementary graduation certificate. For Grade 10 it covers English, an aptitude interview, and an academic interview, with an English placement assessment deciding the stream. Transfer applicants are assessed according to the program and grade they apply to. Admission is granted on the admissions committee's approval and on available vacancies.
Applications for the 2027 to 2028 year were open at the time of writing, with a Grade 7 assessment scheduled for 16 January 2027 and Grade 1 sessions the week before. Earlier cycles ran a Grade 7 assessment in March and a Grade 10 assessment at the end of May, so the calendar moves year to year and the admissions office is the place to confirm dates. The campus does not publish a fixed deadline or waitlist rules. The one planning point that does not move is the fork at Grade 7: a family applying then is applying to a track, and the track chosen sets the child's path to university.
Harland is not a school and does not replace Kang Chiao. We are a 1-on-1 tutoring academy, and we work with Linkou and Taoyuan families remotely or in Taipei, in the three places the schooling decision creates real work for a family: getting in, building the foundation, and the university years.
The Linkou campus admits both Taiwanese nationals and foreign students, with no foreign-passport requirement. Non-Taiwanese applicants additionally provide a residency permit and a health check, and overseas students sit a Chinese-language test.
No. The Linkou campus offers Advanced Placement courses under College Board authorization and is not an IB school. The IB Diploma and Middle Years Programme belong to Kang Chiao's separate Xiugang campus in Xindian.
From Grade 7, students choose the Standard Program, a bilingual Taiwan-curriculum track aimed mainly at Taiwanese universities, or the International Program, aligned to the American secondary curriculum with AP courses and aimed at universities overseas. Both tracks lead to a Taiwan Ministry of Education diploma.
The school does not publish tuition, application, boarding, bus, or meal fees on its own website. Fee questions go directly to the campus admissions office. This guide carries no figures the school has not published.
Families register for a Get to Know KCISLK orientation and campus tour, which gives priority access to the Ability Assessment. Grade 7 entry assesses English, mathematics, and an aptitude interview. Grade 10 entry assesses English, an aptitude interview, and an academic interview. Admission depends on committee approval and available places.
Our Student Coordinator speaks with Linkou and Taoyuan families regularly, and can help you think through the two tracks, what the Grade 7 and Grade 10 assessments measure, and how to prepare, all before you visit. We work with families remotely or in Taipei. We start by listening.