Forest City International School

An American-curriculum K-12 boarding school inside Forest City, opened in 2018 as the Malaysia flagship of CATS Global Schools. Small, around 200 students, with a 4:1 student-teacher ratio and NEASC accreditation.

FCIS sits in the Country Garden Forest City development on reclaimed land 30 minutes from the Singapore second link. The curriculum follows US Common Core with Advanced Placement options, and boarding is available from Grade 5. Tuition runs MYR 65,500 in early years to MYR 83,500 in high school, with boarding MYR 30,000 to 43,000 on top.

Forest City itself remains thinly populated, well under its original residential targets, and the wider development has been described in Foreign Policy as a stalled project now being repositioned as a tax-free financial zone. That context matters for daily life: families need to plan for limited surrounding amenities and a dependence on the school community itself. The setting suits boarders and families already invested in Forest City. Day families from central Johor Bahru face a long commute.

• The school sits inside Forest City, a partly-built Country Garden development in Johor; that location context matters because residency patterns and amenities are still in flux around the campus.
• It rebranded from Shattuck-St. Mary's Forest City to a CATS Global Schools partnership in 2024, so anything written before then refers to a different operator relationship.
• The American curriculum, AP track and a low student-to-teacher ratio (around 4:1 with roughly 200 students) are the consistent academic anchors.
• Independent parent voices online are scarce and short; most surfaced reviews are short positive Google reviews or marketing-led articles, with no detailed negative reviews surfacing.