Dulwich College Shanghai Pudong

Dulwich College Shanghai Pudong opened in 2003 as the Pudong campus of the Dulwich College International network, operated by the British company Education in Motion. It is a co-educational K–12 day school for roughly 1,600 students aged 2 to 18, organised into DUCKS (early years), Junior School and Senior School with four day houses. It is distinct from its sister school Dulwich College Shanghai Puxi.

Academically it is a British-through-IB school: the English National Curriculum in the lower and middle years, IGCSE in Years 10–11, and the IB Diploma Programme in Years 12–13 (first IB graduates in 2009). English is the language of instruction, with Mandarin Chinese taught from Year 1; a meaningful share of IB graduates earn bilingual diplomas (23.4% in 2025), signalling serious Mandarin provision rather than a token programme.

Crucially for internationally-mobile families, the school is a registered 'school for children of foreign personnel' (外籍人员子女学校). It cannot enrol ordinary Chinese mainland nationals; eligibility is gated by Shanghai Municipal Education Commission (SMEC) criteria, and PRC-passport children qualify only in narrow foreign-connection cases (foreign birth, a foreign-passport parent, or foreign permanent residency, sometimes needing an SMEC waiver). Families should plan on a foreign passport or foreign-residency status being required.

Accreditation is broad and credible: CIS, the IB Organization, WASC, Cambridge Assessment International Education, FOBISIA and HMC membership (accredited February 2025). There is, however, no UK British Schools Overseas (BSO) inspection on the public record — external assurance comes via accreditation bodies and an internal annual review by Dulwich College's Deputy Master, not a graded government inspectorate. China has no graded national inspectorate, so the tier reflects accreditation + curriculum depth — capped at A.