🇨🇳 Guangzhou
Best International Schools in Guangzhou
The top-rated international schools in Guangzhou include American International School of Guangzhou (AISG), Clifford International School (Guangzhou), ISA Science City International School. BrightKey has independently rated 5 schools on verifiable public data — ordered by inspection & accreditation tier, with no payments from any school.
What “best” means here
This is not a paid ranking — no school can buy a position. Order follows our transparent tier: in markets with a graded public inspectorate (e.g. Dubai's KHDA), by the verifiable inspection band; where there is none, by accreditation depth and curriculum authorisation, capped at A. Within a tier, schools are listed alphabetically. School-reported university placement is always flagged and never tiered.
Read the full tiering methodology.
Guangzhou's oldest international school (founded 1981) and the city's only not-for-profit international school — a foreign-passport-only, American-standards school running the IB PYP and Diploma across two campuses. It cannot enrol ordinary mainland Chinese nationals.
A Panyu-based school (international programme since 2002) running the Canadian Manitoba curriculum plus AP — a distinctive Canadian-curriculum option in Guangzhou with published fees, CITA accreditation and an on-campus SAT centre. Registered for foreign students.
A large, purpose-built foreign-passport IB continuum school (广州科学城爱莎外籍人员子女学校, opened 2020) — flagship of the ISA (爱莎) group — running PYP, MYP and DP with substantial boarding capacity, rare in the Greater Bay Area. New, so no long DP track record yet. Cannot enrol mainland Chinese nationals.
Guangzhou's most-established British international school (founded 2005, Nord Anglia group), running the English National Curriculum EYFS→IGCSE→A-Level with Cambridge and Edexcel, plus Nord Anglia's MIT/Juilliard/UNICEF global enrichment. The official site states it accepts all nationalities and is MOE-licensed — its exact foreign-passport status is not publicly confirmed.
An established (1998) foreign-passport IB continuum school in Baiyun District, dual CIS + WASC accredited, running PYP, MYP and DP with small classes. Its sister Zengcheng campus offers boarding. Cannot enrol mainland Chinese nationals.
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