Shanghai Community International School — Attraction in Shanghai

SCIS is one of the oldest international schools in Shanghai with a great ethnic diversity. In fact they would prefer white faces to ethnic Chinese with foreign passports. Admission tour is great but the responsiveness and warmth just stops there. Responses are slow and inconsistent regarding the admissions process. Education lean towards the open style versus the more rigorous other extreme of Shanghai High or YK Pao. Kids are happy but living in a complete bubble away from the local society, without much homework as a discipline. It would work for some parents, but if you want to build grit and have your kids exposed to the real China society, look...

I got bullied here. Told my home room teacher and she didn’t do anything about it. In Mandarin, if you aren’t good enough at it then the teachers will make you loose confidence. I know this school is in China and the school has their own way of doing things, this just isn’t it. If you really want your students to thrive, don’t pressure them but it happens all the time. This school is a...

Amazing school just the food isn't the best TOO ALL THE PEOPLE THAT DON"T LIKE THIS SCHOOL YOUR WERID (HQIS isn't even that good my little brother went there it sucked so much his teacher came to SCIS) But the...