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Established in 2008, the International Curriculum Teaching Center of Shanghai Jianping High School (ECIC) is a public institution located at 517 Gushan Road in Pudong New District, Shanghai. Serving over 500 international students with small class sizes of 15 to 20 pupils, the campus provides a blend of Chinese domestic core courses and the American Curriculum. Students choose from more than 20 Advanced Placement (AP) elective subjects spanning mathematics, sciences, and arts. The school is particularly known for its signature STEAM initiative, which features hands-on projects in aerospace, civil engineering, drone operation, and oceanography research. For extracurricular options, ECIC partners with global institutions to offer academic exchanges with overseas universities like Stanford. Campus facilities support a student orchestra, a drama club staging full-length theater productions, and competitive sports teams that participate in basketball, track and field, and swimming competitions. Additionally, the school offers residential boarding availability for its student body.
Dehong Shanghai International Chinese School opened on 1 September 2017 in the Qizhong villa area of Maqiao, Minhang District, Shanghai. The campus delivers a twelve-year education (Grade 1–12) that blends the Chinese National Curriculum with international elements, guided by Dehong's holistic, inquiry-based framework and the Dulwich College International pedagogical approach. The school emphasises bilingual education, with roughly 50% Chinese-medium and 50% English-medium teaching in Elementary and Middle School, and a shift to predominantly English instruction (about 85% of teaching and learning in English) from Grade 10 onward to support global university pathways. The Dehong curriculum consists of three strands: the CNC content, extended inquiry-based learning (including STEAM, SE21, service, sustainability, and cultural activities), and the international perspectives offered through Dulwich-inspired practice. The enrichment programme (Qidi) covers Humanities, Visual and Performing Arts, Entrepreneurial Practice, Sports, and Music, and the school participates in Worldwise events that connect students with a global network. The campus is designed to support language development, cross-cultural understanding and holistic growth.
Dipont Huayao Collegiate School Kunshan presents a blended Chinese–American curriculum and describes its approach as an integrated, Sino‑American program that runs from preschool through Grade 12. The school website states children may start in preschool at age two, boarding is introduced from Grade 6, and the programme culminates in Upper School (Grade 12). The academic pages highlight an emphasis on a ‘Sino‑American Integrated Curriculum', an iSTEAM–PBL approach, and a Dual Language Immersion programme using Chinese and English. The site also notes that approximately 30% of educators are English speakers. The website lists the campus address and contact details but does not publish tuition, class‑size figures, total pupil numbers or campus coordinates. Where the site does not state an item explicitly, that detail is omitted here rather than assumed.
SMIC Private School (SMIC School) is a K–12 school founded by Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation in 2001 and opened to the public in 2004. The main campus is in Zhangjiang, Pudong (Qing‑Tong Road) and the school combines a Chinese-track program with an international (American‑system) division; the international division offers AP courses and is an authorised AP and SAT/ACT test centre. Facilities listed on the school site include science labs, language facilities, AI classroom and extensive sports facilities. The bilingual kindergarten lists class sizes and age bands (P2 = 3 years; K1 = 4; K2 = 5). The school states it provides daily Chinese instruction across grades while following American‑based curricular standards in the international division. For families: tuition for the international division is published per semester on the school site (see fees page); the site also gives a school‑bus contact for routes and fees.
Shanghai Qibao Dwight High School (QDHS) is presented on the school's library site as a dedicated high school campus located at No. 3233 Hongxin Road in Minhang District; the library pages are used to host subject guides, Extended Essay guidance and Grade 10 summer-work materials. The school's online materials on the QDHS library reference both IGCSE (Grade 10 IGCSE Math materials) and the IB Diploma (Extended Essay guidance), and subject guides list Visual Art, Music, Theatre and sciences as supported disciplines. The library pages are written in English and include Chinese-language subject guides, and they are the school-hosted resource used here for factual details (address, subject/assessment resources and Grade 10–11 DP references). Where the main public website does not state an item explicitly (fees, overall pupil numbers, class sizes, principal on the public pages accessed), those fields are left blank in this profile.
Shanghai High School International Division (SHSID) is the international section of Shanghai High School, founded in 1993 and providing education for Grades 1–12 across multiple campuses (Xuhui/Puxi plus Pudong/Zhangjiang, Lingang and Hongkou campuses). SHSID operates a US-based primary curriculum and offers AP courses, the IB Diploma and international A-level options; it is authorized for IB, AP and A-level examinations and is a TOEFL test centre. The Xuhui (Puxi) campus address is 989 Baise Road (north gate) with a south gate at 400 Shangzhong Road in Xuhui District, and the school reports roughly 3,500 students, an average class size of about 18 and a reported 1:5 teacher–student ratio. SHSID also runs STEAM/innovation programmes and a broad world‑languages programme (French, Japanese, Spanish, German, Korean among options) alongside music, drama and visual‑arts provision. (All details from the school website.)
Sino European International Private School (SEIPS), established in 2008, is a bilingual preschool and kindergarten situated at its Lujiazui campus in Pudong District, Shanghai. Serving children aged three months to six years, the school delivers instruction in both English and Mandarin. SEIPS implements its signature initiative: the exclusive "Stepping Stones" curriculum. This educational program incorporates European and American early learning models aligned with the Chinese National Curriculum framework. Children learn in small groups to build foundational skills in Chinese and English literacy, mathematics, science, physical development, art, social development, emotion, and design and technology. The program focuses on concrete outcomes, enabling students to gain independence, social responsibility, and environmental awareness through practical exploration, problem-solving, and creative inquiry. The school operates with an explicit emphasis on child health and safety across its daily routines. Families exploring options from overseas can coordinate enrollment directly with campus customer service or admissions teams.
Shanghai Starriver Bilingual School (SSBS) is a private bilingual school in Minhang District, Shanghai, established in 2012. It serves students from Grade 1 through Grade 12. In the lower grades (1–9), SSBS delivers the national compulsory education curriculum with bilingual instruction in mathematics, science, physics, chemistry and biology, and offers a range of elective courses to develop student interests. In the upper grades (10–12), the high school program centers on Chinese core courses taught in Chinese, such as Chinese, Politics, History and Geography. It also adds international-style electives, including Sino-US integrated courses and Advanced Placement (AP) courses under the College Board, with more than 30 AP subjects available (including Capstone). The school's guiding philosophy is “global education with the Chinese core,” emphasizing national identity, international perspective, innovation, collaboration and social responsibility.
Shanghai Maple Leaf Bilingual School opened in September 2013 and is located at No.1 Fengye Street in historic Fengjing Town, at the junction of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai. The campus occupies about 150 mu and the site states the school enrolled around 1,000 middle- and high-school students and employs roughly 180 staff, including about 40 international teachers. The school is listed on the site as one of the first 21 pilot schools approved by the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission to run international high‑school curriculum programs; the site also highlights regular international‑university admissions and graduation events. The school presents both Chinese-language materials and bilingual (Chinese/English) communications on its pages, notes a named international‑curriculum leadership team, and publishes news about student performances and English language events on the campus. For specific tuition, class-size or bus-service details the school site points parents to the admissions materials and contact numbers.
Soong Ching Ling School (SCLS) was founded in 2008 and combines a Domestic Division and an International Division on a single campus in Zhaoxiang, Qingpu District. The website states the campus covers roughly 150 acres (near 100,000 m²) and lists a wide range of facilities including bilingual libraries, the Soong Ching Ling Theatre, a Technology & Art building, indoor sports halls and a year‑round heated swimming pool. The school reports about 1,700 students across its divisions and runs regular, school-wide programmes such as an annual Science Fair, TEDx events and an active student council (the HS Student Council has received external recognition). The site also publishes the school's tuition schedules (examples: Domestic primary Yearly tuition RMB 84,000; International Division G6–G8 RMB 180,000/year, G9–G12 RMB 200,000/year). The school's web pages are available in English and Chinese and present the International Division (Grades 1–12) and Domestic Division (Primary, Middle, High) separately.
Yew Wah International Education School, Shanghai Lingang opened in 2015 and offers education from primary through high school on a single campus in the Nanhui / Lingang New Town area. The school combines the Chinese national curriculum at primary and lower-secondary levels with international programmes in senior secondary (two-year IGCSE followed by two-year A Level), and describes its classroom language environment as Chinese–English bilingual with collaborative Chinese and international teaching teams. The campus materials on the school website note campus size (~60 acres), boarding provision, on‑site sports and arts facilities, and a student–teacher ratio of 6:1. (All items above are taken from the school's official pages and the school's 2025 admission brochures.)
Shanghai Jincai High School International Division (JCID) was established in 2000 and is located at No. 26 Eshan Road in Pudong, close to Century Park; the international division is part of the larger Jincai High School campus. JCID operates a Chinese section (using the national curriculum) and an English section (using original US materials) and is authorized by the International Baccalaureate Organization; it offers the IPC in primary grades, the MYP (authorized 2006) and the IBDP (authorized 2015). The international division is reported on the school site as having about 400 students; the wider Jincai High School enrolment is given as about 2,100 students. JCID's site notes a Co-Principals and co-teaching model and identifies the school as a Base School for international promotion of Chinese (Hanban). For transport, the school publishes a paid school-home bus service with several route/price bands.
Shanghai Japanese School is a Japanese-curriculum international school in Shanghai operated by the Shanghai Japanese School Operating Committee, with support from the Shanghai Japanese Chamber of Commerce. It offers education from elementary through high school, with campuses in Hongqiao and Pudong, and a high school division established in 2011 on the Pudong campus. The school follows Japan’s national curriculum, using Japanese-language textbooks and subject structures familiar to families from Japan. Students study standard subjects taught in Japanese, ensuring continuity with the Japanese education system.
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