Shanghai Gold Apple Bilingual School Introduction

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Shanghai Gold Apple School is a modern boarding school set up by Yalong Group in 2000. It consists of Kindergarten, Primary Department, Secondary Department and International Department. The school adheres to the core value of “responsibility, generosity, excellence”.
With "Respect for differences, build suitable education for students" as its idea of running, it aims to be a brand school with "strong personality, excellent features and high degree of internationalization”. The school has achieved notable successes, its personalized and featured education has a great influence and popularity in Shanghai and the whole country. It is known as the " aircraft carrier" of private education in Shanghai.
The honors that school has won include: “Top 100 Private Schools in China”, “National Model schools with Characteristics”, “Advanced National Private Primary and Secondary School in Building Characteristics”, “March 8 Red-Banner Groups" , “The Most Socially Responsible Model School”, “Shanghai Model Unit”, “Shanghai Chinese Education Base”, “Shanghai Bilingual Teaching Experimental Base”, “ Featured School in Science and Technology in Pudong New District”, ”Featured School of Odyssey of the Mind”, “Shanghai Featured School in Aerospace Science and Technology”, “Shanghai Art Practice Base”and “China's Top Ten School in Calligraphy and Painting”.
The school is one of the first batch of 28 bilingual teaching experimental schools in Shanghai. It is a class A school in Pudong New District and a member school of Jianping Group. The curriculum that the school offers include: (1) primary school, middle school and high school courses within the Chinese system; (2) Chinese language courses for foreign children; (3) American high school courses; and (4) Cambridge curriculum. With a high degree of internationalization, the school established Education Tomorrow in the United States in 2017 and opened its own American school (California Academy, Claremont). Both our students and teachers have the opportunity to go to their own schools in the United States and experience the international educational atmosphere. At the same time, the university has established a strategic partnership with the university of California, the leading public university in the United States. Students of Gold Apple school can not only learn the credit courses of American universities in high school, but also get preferential admission to the university and lock up seats in the world famous universities in advance.

Introduction of the International Department

1. Dept. Size:
Its American Course Centre has 2 classes in each grade with 8 teaching classes in total, each class has less than 25 students, has a total number of approximate 200 students.
Its Cambridge Course Centre has 2 classes in each grade with 8 teaching classes in total, each class has less than 25 students, has a total number of approximate 200 students.
Its Mandarin Center is a Chinese language and culture education base awarded by Shanghai municipal government in 2004. It consists of 12 teaching classes and has a total number of 200 students.

2. Faculty:
The majority of the teachers have a master's degree or above. The ratio of Chinese to foreign teachers is 3:1.

3. Mandarin Course Center:
Courses offered: Cambridge courses, HSK Chinese and Chinese mathematics
Target university: worldwide

4. American Course Centre:
American college board AP center CEEB code：694068
Authorized school of California Academy, Claremont, USA
Course offered: Credit courses, AP courses, TOEFL, SAT (11 AP courses offered: Calculus, Physics 1, Physics 2, Physics C: Mechanics, Electricity, Magnetism, Chemistry, Biology, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, 2D, 3D)
Target Universities: Universities in USA and Canada

5. Cambridge Course Centre:
Cambridge International Examinations Centre No. CN898
Course offered: IGCSE、A-LEVEL、IELTS (9 Courses of A-LEVEL：Mathematics, Advanced Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Geography, Economics, Computer, History）.

6. Features of American Course Centre:
With its own American curriculum system, it has reached a strategic partnership with the university of California, the most famous public university in the United States (including 10 branches, with Riverside Branch as key partner), so that all students can get the priority admission of the school and lock up seats in the world famous schools in advance.

7. Features of Cambridge Course Centre:
Its graduate has been admitted by Oxford University with a high admission rate of G5  Group. In 2019, students from ten schools in Shanghai had been admitted by Oxbridge, and our school is one of them.

8. Features of Mandarin Centre:
Its aim is to enable foreign students to study in top universities in China. With the opening of One Belt And One Road, more children of foreigners will study in China and choose the top universities in China. Our foreign students had been admitted by Peking University, Tsinghua University and Fudan University, Jiaotong University.

9. Personalized development characteristics：
Our school offers 18 extended curriculum.

10. Career planing and College Counselling
A four-year course system of guidance is established according to the characteristics of different subjects of different international courses, aimed at universities in different countries. The guidance is conducted from subject planning, standardized planning and background planning, with the specific implementation schedule. To fully embody the personalized guidance, periodical communication for each student and family are carried out at a certain frequency. The center constantly invites well-known college admissions interviewers, renowned corporate managers and school alumni to organize a wide range of training and exchange activities.

11. College admission
So far, more than 1600 students have successfully admitted by universities in Britain, America, Australia and Canada, and the admission rate of the world's top 100 universities has reached 99%.
Admission statistics for 2019:
UK: 1 student had been admitted by Oxford University, 19 students had been admitted by G5 Universities.
USA: 29 students had been admitted by Top 50 universities
Australia: 6 students had been admitted by Australian National University, 16 students had been admitted by The University of Melbourne, 50 students had been admitted by Group of Eight Universities in Australia
Canada: 1 student had been admitted by University of Toronto,  2 student had been admitted by The University of British Columbia