The school had around 40 students, with some having parents working at some twenty companies which were branches of Japanese firms, including subsidiaries of Enkei, Sanyo, Sony, and Uniden.

By then the Indiana Japanese School served around two to three students who were living in Columbus, all of them children of Enkei employees.

That year the school, which served K-12, was the largest of the Indiana hoshuko.

[4] As of 1986, mathematics, science, and the Japanese language are the main courses taken.

[2] By 1997 the course offerings also included social studies, and each day had five hours of instruction.