Yali School
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[edit] General
Yali (雅礼) is a secondary school (6th through 12th grades) located in Changsha, Hunan Province in the People's Republic of China. It is a first-tier key school in Hunan's public school system.
[edit] History
Founded in 1906 by Yale-in-China, now known as the Yale-China Association, the School has been known throughout China for its quality instruction, both as an American-owned private school during the first half of the 20th century and as a public school since then. The municipal government of Changsha took over administration of the school in 1951, and changed its name to Changsha Number Five Middle School in the public school numbering system. In 1985, with the re-establishment of relations with Yale-China Association, the school was renamed and was once again known as the Yali School.
The name Yali 雅礼 (pinyin: Yǎ Lǐ) comes from the Analects of Confucius, meaning elegance of expression (ya 雅) and propriety of conduct (li 礼), and is a transliteration of Yale in early-20th century. Yali's school colors are blue, white (Yale colors) and red (China), which are on the school uniform.
[edit] Curricula & Extracurricula
The school currently has two campuses: a day school located near city-center and a boarding school located in the suburban areas. As a key middle school, Yali graduates score among the highest in China's college entrance examinations and are accepted by the country's finest universities. In addition, its high-quality English education, supported by four teaching fellows from Yale University and funded by Yale-China, has given some of its graduates near-fluency in the English language; every year, some graduates from the school are accepted by prestigious North American institutions such as Yale University and Princeton University after highly competitive selection processes held by these universities in China for their extremely limited international recruitment. Its strength in science education, and in particular, informatics and computer science, has produced several gold medals among its students in contests like the International Olympiad in Informatics.
Soccer and basketball are Yali's strengths in the area of sports, with its men's soccer team and women's basketball teams often winning provincial high school tournaments. Students also participate in a wide range of extracurricular activities, including sports, student newspaper, radio station, TV station, orchestra, band, traditional dance, among others.
[edit] Friendship/Sister Schools
- St. Paul's School (Concord, New Hampshire), USA
- Foote School, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
- Yukata School, Kagoshima, Japan
- Nanhua Senior Vocational Supplementary High School, Taipei, Taiwan
