Located in the city of Seongnam (on the border of southeast Seoul), the school is about 25 minutes south of Lotte World, the Jamsil subway station and Olympic Park.
[3] As a condition of attending the school, every student is required to hold non-Korean permanent residency or citizenship.
All students in grades 4–12 are part of a one-to-one learning network, accompanied by an Apple company technician who is full-time on campus and a professional technology learning staff who takes care of student and teacher needs in a 100% Macintosh computer program.
Athletic facilities include three gymnasiums, a five-lane indoor 25-meter heated swimming pool, a soccer field with artificial turf, and weights and gymnastics rooms.
It contains seven floors with elementary school classrooms, a full-sized gymnasium in the basement level, six stories of classrooms, learning spaces, two multi-purpose rooms, specialist Art, teacher preparation, ESL/SN rooms and a sixth-floor gymnasium for elementary students.
These criteria-referenced grades are fully supported by external metrics of educational outcomes on AP exams, the SAT and ACT, college acceptances to the most competitive schools in the world (including Princeton, Yale, Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Penn, Brown, Chicago, and Caltech).
[5] Advisory is a period that allows students to meet with their homeroom teacher and interact through activities and games.
The list includes MS Global Issues Network (GIN), Drama, Music (Band, Choir, or Strings), Art, Yoga, and more.
Speeches are made in front of the entire middle school student body and each individual votes for the candidates of their choosing.
MSSC is in charge of organizing multiple events, including an annual carnival that is hosted towards the end of the school year.
The existing clubs include UNICEF, Habitat for Humanity (HFH), Global Issues Network (GIN), Mu Alpha Theta (MAT), Primary English Teacher Association (PETA), Amnesty International, National Honor Society (NHS), Korean Animal Service Association (KASA), North Korea Human Rights (NKHR), Tri-M Music Honor Society, Kaleidoscope, Seoulite, Model United Nations (MUN), Community Service Club, Science Club, Quill & Scroll, and more.
Students are asked in the beginning of the year to fill out an application in order to apply for clubs of their choosing.