School Heritage
Welcome to Dulwich College Shanghai Pudong!
Our school is located within the leafy, vibrant Jinqiao area of Shanghai, Pudong with a thriving and diverse international community. The first school in the Dulwich College International family, we opened in 2003 with just 23 students. The College now educates over 1600 students from ages 2-18, with over forty different nationalities represented in our diverse student body.
While we have built a strong reputation for academic excellence, with our students achieving IB results well above the global average year on year, this is not at the expense of student wellbeing. Our school has a pastoral support team for students at all levels, and all of them follow a wellbeing programme appropriate to their age and coordinated across the year groups. The positive relationships they form with their peers and with their teachers are critical for their education and for creating a safe learning environment for their growth.
We believe in holistic education that develops the whole child. We offer a wide range of Co-curricular Activities (CCAs), at all levels, across sport, music, drama, debate and many more. We encourage students across the College to involve themselves in the wider College community and offer support to one another. Our student leadership opportunities span across all year groups and student agency is real with significant impacts on the life of the College.
Our Houses
Our House system is an integral part of the College with students and staff working together across schools and year groups. Many international school students experience a great deal of change in their lives. As their parents move from country to country, they make new friends and adapt to different cultures and school systems. We ensure that children are welcomed into the Dulwich community, that we know them well and that they are supported during their time at the College.
The House system builds a sense of community and school pride within the student body and helps to develop students’ leadership skills. Our House Captains are responsible for helping to organise House activities, which normally take the form of friendly competitions.
On arriving at our school, students and staff are allocated to one of four Houses, where they will remain during their time with us. Our Houses are named after inspirational and accomplished people: Wangari Maathai, Marie Curie, Ernest Shackleton, and Yung Wing.
Our Family of Schools
Our links to Dulwich College London, founded in 1619, are strong, and we collaborate closely with the other schools in the network to encourage an international outlook and create an extended community where academic ability is fostered, creativity is valued, and diversity is celebrated.
We are proud to share a common heritage with all the schools in the DCI family, and equally value the traditions, unique to our school, that we have created since we opened. Students from Nursery to Year 12 wear the school uniform. School uniform isn't about conformity but reflects a long-standing tradition from the founding school and is a badge of pride and school identity.
In 2016, we welcomed our second campus Dulwich College Shanghai Puxi in the Minhang District of Puxi.
