Shanghai High School
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Shanghai High School (上海中学, 上中) is located in Shanghai.
Shanghai High School is a state-owned boarding high school. It was established in 1865 and was known as Longmen Shu Yuan. It has a long history of producing China's brightest students. The beautifully designed school is 340 mu (about 56 acres) and is surrounded by the best that nature has to offer. Shanghai High School commands the best in modern facilities accompanied by prestigious scholars that enrich the minds of the best students in China. In the last five years, 95% of the graduates of Shanghai High School have attended the most elite universities in China. Recently, in 2006, this percentage increased to 99%. Of those students, 65% attended either Beijing University, Qinghua University, Jiaotong University or Fudan University.
In June of 1993, Shanghai High School became the first Chinese school to start an international division. In 1995, Shanghai High School International Division became the first to offer an International Baccalaureate program. More than 1750 students from the United States, Japan, Korea, Canada, England, Italy, Germany, Australia, Yugoslavia, Iran, Egypt, Venezuela, Hong Kong, Macaw, and Taiwan represent just some of the fifty plus countries and regions represented here at Shanghai High School International Division.100% SHSID graduates who applied for American universities have gained entrance.In 2005, 37.5% graduates entered top 20 universities in the US. Of those applying for Chinese universities 100% have gained entrance, 90% have entered top universities,such as Beijing Uni., Tsinghua Uni. Fudan Uni. and Jiaotong Uni.
In 2003, Shanghai High School became a UNESCO associated School. That October, it became the first "Shanghai Municipal Demonstration School." Shanghai High School is marching towards the goal of being "the best in China, the first in the world and the earliest to realize the modernization of education."
Among the alumni, over eighty have become provincial and state leaders, over twenty have become military generals; over fifty have become academicians; over one hundred have become local government officials; and countless have become professionals of business and industry.
