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The Southshore School for A-Level Studies is a co-educational private school in Karachi, Pakistan established by educators with decades of professional experience. Southshore is accredited by The British Council (PK611) and the Sindh Board of Education. We are also affiliated with The College Board (ETS Code 690182).

Southshore is jointly established by Bay View Academy, the C.A.S. School and Froebel Education Centre. The A Level programme at Southshore, commencing in September 2004, offers students the opportunity to select from a wide range of subjects. Further, to ensure that students gain valuable perspective beyond the classroom, the programme of studies includes a variety of learning modules. Students may choose modules related to the arts, the outdoors, internships, foreign language, writing, intellectual exploits and more.

Board of Directors
Shahpur Jamall Sami Mustafa Safia Shaikh Mariam Shera Shahid Shera

Curriculum
Southshore prepares its students for University of Cambridge International Examinations - GCE Advanced Subsidiary Level and Advanced Level examinations. All students are required to take English (General) in addition to a minimum of three major subjects for their A-Level programme. Students choose their major subjects from Accounting, Art, Biology, Business Studies, Chemistry, Economics, English Literature, History, Law, Mathematics, Physics, Psychology, Sociology and Urdu.

Student Profile
Students from all areas of Karachi enrol to study at Southshore representing a wide variety of O-Level schools including Bay View Academy, Bay View High School, Beaconhouse School, The CAS School, The City School, Convent of Jesus & Mary, Froebel Education Centre, Karachi Grammar School, Mrs. Haque's, Progressive Public School, St. Patrick's High School and more.

Alumni Profile
All Southshore students are university bound upon the completion of their A-Level studies with approximately 80% going abroad for their higher education. Recent university admissions for graduates have included:

Canada Concordia University McMaster University Queens University Ryerson University Simon Fraser University University of British Columbia University of Toronto University of Waterloo University of Western Ontaria University of Windsor York University

Egypt The American University in Cairo

Malaysia University of Nottingham in Malaysia

Pakistan Aga Khan University Medical College College of Business Management (CBM) Indus Valley School of Art & Architecture Institute of Business Administration (IBA) Lahore University of Management Sciences The Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology (SZABIST) Ziauddin Medical University

United Arab Emirates The American University of Sharjah The American University of Dubai The University of Wollongong in Dubai

United Kingdom Birmingham Bradford Brunel Cardiff City Kent Loughboro Manchester Nottingham Queens Sussex Warwick

U.S.A. Allegheny College Butler University Kalamazoo College Michigan State University Ohio Wesleyan University Pennsylvania State University Purdue University University of California at Davis University of Indiana

Extracurricular activities
Southshore offers its students the ability to challenge themselves beyond the classroom by participating in a wide variety of extracurricular activities including community service, sports, social events, internships, math/science competitions, music, debate, drama and more.

Inter-School sports include Athletics (M & W), Basketball (M & W), Cricket (M & W), Football (M & W), Table Tennis (M & W), Throwball (W) with ample opportunities for intramural competitions as well.

Our students have participated in the International Schools Educational Olympiad (ISEO) winning awards in a variety of categories, the Lahore University of Management Sciences LUMUN and YLES. For the past 3 or 4 years, our students have been selected to represent Pakistan in the Cathay Pacific International Wilderness Experience which takes two Pakistani students to South Africa as part of a 14 country conservation programme for young people.

Campus
Southshore began at the Clifton campus in 2004 and in Summer 2008 moved to a 2000 square yard, purpose built campus in DHA Phase VIII that includes 14 classrooms, laboratories, state of the art library, study rooms, student common room and more.

Admissions and Financial Aid Policies
Applications for admission are accepted after O-Level results are available in early August with A1 classes commencing around September 1st. Candidates may download application materials from the website or obtain them at the school office. Admission to Southshore is highly competitive and is based on the Admissions Committee's review of academic performance (school and O-Level), Principal and Teacher recommendations, extracurricular activities and personal interviews.

The Board of Directors believes that financial limitations should not prevent a qualified candidate from attending Southshore. Therefore, Southshore does not offer scholarships based on academic merit, choosing to focus scholarship assistance towards families with genuine financial need. Candidates who apply for financial assistance are considered for admission on a need blind basis, which means that their scholarship application does not play any part in the admissions decision. Southshore makes every attempt to meet the demonstrated need of its accepted students who have completed an application for financial assistance.