Best IB Schools in Beijing for International Families

A foreign-children international school (children of foreign personnel) in Shunyi — ordinary mainland Chinese nationals cannot enrol, though Chinese-passport children with foreign permanent residence and a year-plus abroad qualify. It runs the English National Curriculum and IGCSE into a strong IB Diploma (school-reported 2025 average 38.7), with an A-Level pathway added from 2025. Accredited by CIS and WASC and an IB World School.

A foreign-passport-only international school in Shunyi (open to children of foreign nationals and to returning Chinese families holding foreign permanent residency — not to ordinary mainland Chinese nationals), delivering a standards-based American curriculum from Early Years to an ISB High School Diploma, capped by the full IB Diploma Programme in Grades 11–12. Beijing's first international school (1980) and the first in the city to offer the full IB Diploma.

A foreign-passport-only British international day school in Beijing's Shunyi expat district, open only to children holding a foreign passport with appropriate visa — ordinary mainland Chinese nationals cannot enrol. It teaches the English National Curriculum to IGCSE, then offers a dual senior pathway of the IB Diploma (school-reported average 37) and recently re-launched A-Levels. It is owned by the for-profit Nord Anglia Education group and is COBIS-accredited (2025).

A non-profit, foreign-nationals-only IB World School in Chaoyang's Lido area — your family needs a foreign passport, HK/Macau/Taiwan status, or foreign permanent residency; mainland-resident Chinese nationals cannot enrol. It runs the full IB continuum (PYP, MYP, Diploma) end-to-end in English with a strong tiered Mandarin programme, on one of Beijing's largest and best-resourced international campuses.