Saint Paul Academy Daechi

A grade 9 to 12 American-curriculum upper school in Daechi-dong, Gangnam, founded in 2018 as part of the Saint Paul American School network with campuses in Beijing, Clark, Shanghai, Paris and the United States.

Saint Paul Daechi sits in the heart of what Korean families call the Mecca of private education, and the school is unashamedly built around US college matriculation. The programme follows US Common Core in language arts, math, social studies and science, with after-hours SAT and TOEFL prep and supervised evening study hall. Network membership lets students transfer between Saint Paul campuses worldwide.

The school is academically focused above all else. Teaching is described as serious and outcomes-led, but the wider extracurricular and club menu is notably lighter than the bigger international schools. For a Korean family already living in the Daechi study ecosystem and pointed firmly at US universities, the fit is direct. Families wanting a fuller pastoral or activities-based programme should look at the larger Gangnam or Pangyo schools.