Edited by Aziza Francienne · B2C Marketing Manager
Shanghai has 10 schools in the sen / special education category, providing families with focused options.
Compare 9 SEN / Special Education international schools in Shanghai, China. Filter by curriculum, fees (average RMB 198,605), location, and more to find the right international school now.
Lucton School Shanghai is the Shanghai campus of the historic British Lucton school and opened in September 2018. The campus is located in Pudong New Area and is operated as a fully boarding school. The school follows an English/British curriculum offering IGCSE and A Level pathways and includes ESL support for students whose first language is not English. The website highlights a range of on-site facilities and extended programmes: a central football pitch, roof tennis and basketball courts, water-sport provision and a dedicated equestrian (马术) centre — the site notes that equestrian activity is part of the sports offering. Class-size guidance on the site states IGCSE classes are around 20 students and A Level classes around 12. The school presents a bilingual (Chinese/English) environment and lists modern foreign languages such as French, Spanish and German among its extended language options.
Yew Wah International Education School of Shanghai Gubei opened in 2001 and is at 600 Gubei Road, Changning District, Shanghai. The campus delivers an English‑taught, three‑year upper‑secondary art and design programme that emphasises portfolio preparation and university guidance for overseas applications. The school website lists facilities including art and design classrooms, a fashion and textiles studio, a digital media lab, a design and technology workshop, and a multifunctional exhibition hall. Boarding is available and the site describes curriculum pathways aligned with Cambridge Pre‑A/IGCSE and AS/A Level courses, with subjects such as digital media offered. Admissions information notes applicants complete English and art assessments and a principal interview. The site also describes a Western–Chinese co‑leadership model and names the school's senior leaders. The website lists recent university destinations including University of the Arts London and Parsons; news pages describe collaborations with fashion designers and showcases student exhibitions and competition entries regularly.
Yew Wah International Education School, Shanghai Lingang opened in 2015 and offers education from primary through high school on a single campus in the Nanhui / Lingang New Town area. The school combines the Chinese national curriculum at primary and lower-secondary levels with international programmes in senior secondary (two-year IGCSE followed by two-year A Level), and describes its classroom language environment as Chinese–English bilingual with collaborative Chinese and international teaching teams. The campus materials on the school website note campus size (~60 acres), boarding provision, on‑site sports and arts facilities, and a student–teacher ratio of 6:1. (All items above are taken from the school's official pages and the school's 2025 admission brochures.)
Shanghai Qibao Dwight High School (QDHS) is presented on the school's library site as a dedicated high school campus located at No. 3233 Hongxin Road in Minhang District; the library pages are used to host subject guides, Extended Essay guidance and Grade 10 summer-work materials. The school's online materials on the QDHS library reference both IGCSE (Grade 10 IGCSE Math materials) and the IB Diploma (Extended Essay guidance), and subject guides list Visual Art, Music, Theatre and sciences as supported disciplines. The library pages are written in English and include Chinese-language subject guides, and they are the school-hosted resource used here for factual details (address, subject/assessment resources and Grade 10–11 DP references). Where the main public website does not state an item explicitly (fees, overall pupil numbers, class sizes, principal on the public pages accessed), those fields are left blank in this profile.
Soong Ching Ling School (SCLS) was founded in 2008 and combines a Domestic Division and an International Division on a single campus in Zhaoxiang, Qingpu District. The website states the campus covers roughly 150 acres (near 100,000 m²) and lists a wide range of facilities including bilingual libraries, the Soong Ching Ling Theatre, a Technology & Art building, indoor sports halls and a year‑round heated swimming pool. The school reports about 1,700 students across its divisions and runs regular, school-wide programmes such as an annual Science Fair, TEDx events and an active student council (the HS Student Council has received external recognition). The site also publishes the school's tuition schedules (examples: Domestic primary Yearly tuition RMB 84,000; International Division G6–G8 RMB 180,000/year, G9–G12 RMB 200,000/year). The school's web pages are available in English and Chinese and present the International Division (Grades 1–12) and Domestic Division (Primary, Middle, High) separately.
Shanghai Maple Leaf Bilingual School opened in September 2013 and is located at No.1 Fengye Street in historic Fengjing Town, at the junction of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai. The campus occupies about 150 mu and the site states the school enrolled around 1,000 middle- and high-school students and employs roughly 180 staff, including about 40 international teachers. The school is listed on the site as one of the first 21 pilot schools approved by the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission to run international high‑school curriculum programs; the site also highlights regular international‑university admissions and graduation events. The school presents both Chinese-language materials and bilingual (Chinese/English) communications on its pages, notes a named international‑curriculum leadership team, and publishes news about student performances and English language events on the campus. For specific tuition, class-size or bus-service details the school site points parents to the admissions materials and contact numbers.
Dulwich College Shanghai Pudong is an international day school for children aged 2–18 that opened in 2003 and now educates over 1,600 students. The College groups younger children in DUCKS (Toddler to Year 2), a Dual Language early years programme based on the U.K. Early Years Foundation Stage, then follows the English National Curriculum in the Junior School and IGCSE leading into the IB Diploma in the Senior School. The school publishes a detailed annual fee schedule and a separate fee PDF shows the 2025–26 tuition bands by year group. Mandarin is offered through multiple pathways (native, second-language and foreign-language routes) from early years through to IGCSE/IB, and the school runs a large co-curricular programme including STEAM, sports, music, drama and community/service activities. The College also operates an optional school bus service and offers a termly residential Ignite and a Switzerland programme for older students.
Dipont Huayao Collegiate School Kunshan presents a blended Chinese–American curriculum and describes its approach as an integrated, Sino‑American program that runs from preschool through Grade 12. The school website states children may start in preschool at age two, boarding is introduced from Grade 6, and the programme culminates in Upper School (Grade 12). The academic pages highlight an emphasis on a ‘Sino‑American Integrated Curriculum', an iSTEAM–PBL approach, and a Dual Language Immersion programme using Chinese and English. The site also notes that approximately 30% of educators are English speakers. The website lists the campus address and contact details but does not publish tuition, class‑size figures, total pupil numbers or campus coordinates. Where the site does not state an item explicitly, that detail is omitted here rather than assumed.
Hiba Academy Nantong (also called Huili School Nantong) is a bilingual school on an 80,000 m² campus in the Su‑Xi‑Tong Science & Technology Industrial Park. The school offers an Hiba Early Years programme (merging EYFS and the Chinese curriculum), followed by a 12‑year pathway covering Primary, Junior High and Senior High. The website states a campus capacity of 2,000 pupils and purpose‑built boarding houses for up to 800 boarders; the school describes a co‑teaching model in Chinese and English and a compulsory wellbeing subject in the curriculum. The site also lists a teacher–student ratio (1:5) and daily school bus provision. Where the website does not give a current enrolment figure it reports the campus design capacity instead.
No schools match your filters. Try adjusting your criteria.
Why join for free?
Already have an account? Log In
