International Schools in Shanghai, China
Edited by Aziza Francienne · B2C Marketing Manager
About international schools in Shanghai, China
Shanghai’s international-school market is large and highly varied, combining British (IGCSE/A-Level), American (US diploma/AP) and International Baccalaureate pathways alongside a substantial cluster of bilingual and other national programmes. English is the primary language of instruction at most international schools, with Mandarin widely offered from early years; many schools also run English-language support and Mandarin immersion options. Annual tuition varies substantially by school and year group - fees commonly range from the low hundreds of thousands of RMB for primary and up to the mid-hundreds of thousands of RMB for secondary - and additional charges for capital levies, buses and activities are typical. Admissions are often competitive: families should start enquiries many months before their intended start date because places, re-enrolment windows and waitlists are managed on a rolling and capacity basis, and most fully foreign-curriculum schools in Shanghai enrol only holders of non-mainland-Chinese passports under current regulation.
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At a glance 28 schools · avg fee RMB 235,290
- Schools listed
- 28
- Curricula
- 23
- Average annual fee
- RMB 235,290
- Fee range
- RMB 83,000 – 399,750
- Most common curriculum
- IB (DP) (16 schools)
- Average school size
- 1,530 pupils
- Largest by enrolment
- Shanghai United International School
- Oldest
- Shanghai American School (1912)
- With boarding
- 7
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