About SMIC

Overview

Shanghai SMIC Private School is located in Zhangjiang, Pudong, Shanghai (known as “Silicon Valley of China”). It was founded by Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation in 2001. It is a private school integrating kindergarten, elementary school, middle and high schools. The school consists of Chinese track and SMIC International Division, including two kindergartens (headquarter and Tangzhen Campus). At present, there are 3391 students from 38 countries and regions in the world, and 554 teaching staff (including 154 overseas teachers, of which 140 overseas teachers are in elementary and middle and high schools).

SMIC School is a school with advanced educational philosophy.

The school adheres to the motto of “Honor, Excellence, Community, Joy”.

The school’s goal is to make students become good citizens with perfect personality, solid academic foundation, innovative spirit, practical ability, strong physique and physical and mental health. The school strives to, and make the school itself a first-class standardized private international integrated education school with high quality and distinctive characteristics characterizes itself by the integration of international and local curriculum.

The school adheres to the path of “diversification and characteristics”, advocates “the combination of east and west and the integration of Chinese and western cultures”, combines the cultivation of innovative practical ability with the rigorous teaching style, and pursues the first-class international education.

SMIC School is a vibrant modern school.

The school covers an area of 120 mu, with exquisite and elegant campus environment. The construction area of the campus is more than 80000 square meters. Complete facilities include modern computer rooms, language labs, libraries, multimedia center, artificial intelligence classroom, physics, chemistry and biology labs. The school has also built a gym, indoor basketball hall, badminton hall, volleyball court, tennis court, 400 meter track and a soccer field. Perfect venues and modern facilities provide a good teaching environment for Chinese and foreign teachers and students.

The school has formed a systematic and scientific fifteen-year- coherent aligned curriculum, which not only reflects the sufficiency and characteristics of national curriculum, but also reflects the integration and diversity of international curriculum. The rich courses meet the development needs of students from different tracks and are deeply recognized by educational professionals. We pay attention to the cultivation of students’ practical ability and innovative spirit. We also pay attention to the overall development of students’ learning process and comprehensive quality.

SMIC School is an international style school with strong teaching resources.

The school has a group of leaders who are proficient in Chinese and Western learning and familiar with international education. They have extensive experience in education, teaching and school management, and devote all their wisdom and energy to the development of SMIC School.

Our well qualified teachers have excellent qualifications, coming come from different educational backgrounds and have extensive work experience. Among them, 42.91% of teachers have master’s degree or above. Under the guidance of the school’s philosophy of “adopting the advantages of Chinese and foreign education and integrating multi cultures”, teachers from different countries learn from each other and complement each other, forming a teaching team integrating the advantages of eastern and Western education.

SMIC School is a diversified school well received by the society.

The school has SMIC’s “character education” curriculum system and rich and colorful school-based activities of Chinese and western cultures. Teachers and students from all over the world gathered in SMIC School, forming a diversified and inclusive campus culture. The school encourages students to form various clubs and actively participate in academic, artistic and sports exchanges and competitions at home and abroad. Over the years, the school and students have achieved remarkable results.

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation and its subsidiaries constituting one of the leading foundries in the world, is the most advanced and the largest foundry with the broadest technology coverage and the most comprehensive semiconductor manufacturing services in China. SMIC Group provides integrated circuit foundry and technology services on process nodes from 0.35 micron to 14 nanometer. Headquartered in Zhangjiang High Tech Park, Pudong, SMIC Group has an international manufacturing and service base in Shanghai, Beijing and Tianjin. SMIC Group also has marketing and customer service offices in the U.S., Europe and Japan.
SMIC Group invested in the establishment of Shanghai SMIC Private School in July 2001,in Zhangjiang, Pudong. Originally the school was established to address the issue of children’s education of those experts and employees serving the SMIC Group, with the continuous development of the school and to better service the community, SMIC officially opened the school to the public in 2004, so that more students in Zhangjiang High Tech Park can enjoy high-quality educational resources. At present, SMIC School is able to provide high-quality education for children of domestic and foreign talents in Pudong New Area and even the entire Shanghai.
SMIC Group congratulates SMIC School on its 20th anniversary, and will continue to support SMIC School, undertake corporate social responsibility, and contribute to education and the development of the students.

Riding the tide of Pudong’s development, SMIC School has reached its 20th anniversary.
SMIC Group, China’s top chip maker;
SMIC education, with world vision.
In the past 20 years, we have been determined to fulfill our mission and march forward persistently;
Twenty years of glory produced high achieving graduates all over the world.
The motto of “Honor, Excellence, Community, Joy” has become what SMIC School is all about, representing SMIC School’s values, and demonstrating what the school has been adhering to.
“Honor” is to cultivate students with good character, learn to be grateful, care for others, abide by integrity and understand responsibility.
In the pursuit of “Excellence”, we always foster students to constantly exceed their limitations and find ways to achieve excellence.
“Community” is to educate students to be looking at the world at equal level, develop a world-oriented way of thinking, have the ability of cross-cultural communication, and lay the cornerstone for future world construction.
“Joy” is to help develop students to continuously understand and improve themselves, form their own interests and hobbies and life planning, learn happily and grow healthily.
Over the past 20 years, SMIC School has experienced the development from scratch and achieved excellence. We have executed to the horizontal integration of Chinese and English teaching and the vertical connection throughout kindergarten, elementary, middle and high school. K-12 commitment and curriculum integration, SMIC School has formed distinct school operating characteristics and achieved remarkable results. Thanks to the hard work and love of generations of SMIC people, SMIC School has become a high-quality private school recognized by the government, well received and trusted by students, parents and the community.
In recent years, the school has promoted the standardized and high-quality characteristic plan of “one school, two wings with integrated education development”, and made great efforts to create a solid foundation for “thorough” curriculum construction, “SMIC intelligence” teacher development and “upgraded” hardware facilities, so as to support the future development of SMIC School.
At the same time, the school has comprehensively and steadily improved its strength, serving Zhangjiang, Pudong and Shanghai with characteristic high-quality education, and striving to become one of the leading educational models in Shanghai’s modern international metropolis.
“Take root in China, integrate east and west, focus on the current and face the future” is the goal of education in the new era, which is also the direction of the SMIC School.
Let’s pay tribute to the pioneers who have composed the prelude to SMIC education!
Let’s hope together, for another 20 years, for current and future generations, and continue to write the chapter in delivering high quality education!

Flora Zhuang
Chancellor and Headmaster

Riding the tide of Pudong’s development, SMIC School has reached its 20th anniversary.
SMIC Group, China’s top chip maker;
SMIC education, with world vision.
In the past 20 years, we have been determined to fulfill our mission and march forward persistently;
Twenty years of glory produced high achieving graduates all over the world.
The motto of “Honor, Excellence, Community, Joy” has become what SMIC School is all about, representing SMIC School’s values, and demonstrating what the school has been adhering to.
“Honor” is to cultivate students with good character, learn to be grateful, care for others, abide by integrity and understand responsibility.
In the pursuit of “Excellence”, we always foster students to constantly exceed their limitations and find ways to achieve excellence.
“Community” is to educate students to be looking at the world at equal level, develop a world-oriented way of thinking, have the ability of cross-cultural communication, and lay the cornerstone for future world construction.
“Joy” is to help develop students to continuously understand and improve themselves, form their own interests and hobbies and life planning, learn happily and grow healthily.
Over the past 20 years, SMIC School has experienced the development from scratch and achieved excellence. We have executed to the horizontal integration of Chinese and English teaching and the vertical connection throughout kindergarten, elementary, middle and high school. K-12 commitment and curriculum integration, SMIC School has formed distinct school operating characteristics and achieved remarkable results. Thanks to the hard work and love of generations of SMIC people, SMIC School has become a high-quality private school recognized by the government, well received and trusted by students, parents and the community.
In recent years, the school has promoted the standardized and high-quality characteristic plan of “one school, two wings with integrated education development”, and made great efforts to create a solid foundation for “thorough” curriculum construction, “SMIC intelligence” teacher development and “upgraded” hardware facilities, so as to support the future development of SMIC School.
At the same time, the school has comprehensively and steadily improved its strength, serving Zhangjiang, Pudong and Shanghai with characteristic high-quality education, and striving to become one of the leading educational models in Shanghai’s modern international metropolis.
“Take root in China, integrate east and west, focus on the current and face the future” is the goal of education in the new era, which is also the direction of the SMIC School.
Let’s pay tribute to the pioneers who have composed the prelude to SMIC education!
Let’s hope together, for another 20 years, for current and future generations, and continue to write the chapter in delivering high quality education!

Flora Zhuang

Chairman & Executive Director of the School Board,
Chancellor & Headmaster of Shanghai SMIC Private School

•2017 Top 1% and 5% in Global American Mathematics Competition (AMC8)
•2017 First Prize in the Star Shanghai English Competition (Elementary)
•2017 First Prize in Reading Competition of Shanghai Elementary School Students
•2017 First Prize in the Eighth Writing Competition for Primary and Secondary Students
•2017 First Prize in the “I Love Poetry” Competition
•2017 First Place in the Equestrian Championship Obstacle Race for Teenagers
•2017 First Place in the Solo 12-Year-Old Group of Waltz Competition
•2017 First Place in the Modern Dance Group of the 18th International Ballroom Dancing
•2018 First Prize in the Star of Shanghai English Competition (Elementary)
•2018 First Prize in the Reading Competition of Shanghai Elementary School Students
•2018 Second Place in Ice Hockey in the Shanghai Ice Sports Meet
•2018 Special Award, First Prize and Second Prize in the Middle School Group of the Yuanxiang Cup Writing Competition
•2018 Second Prize in the National Junior Creative Programming and Intelligent Design Competition (Shanghai)
•2018 Third and Sixth Place in the Middle School Group of Shanghai Elementary and Secondary School Karate Championships
•2018 A student scored a perfect 100% on the AP Chemistry 2018 exam (one out of two students in the world earning full score)
•2018 Asimov Award in the WSC (World Scholars’ Cup) Shanghai
•2019 Second Prize in the 34th Shanghai Youth Science and Technology Creativeness Competition
•2019 First Prize in the Youth Creativeness Demonstration Competition
•2019 Special Award in the Shanghai (Pudong New Area) Reciting Competition for Elementary School Students
•2019 First Prize in the Shanghai Youth Algorithm Competition
•2019 First Prize of Ice Hockey in the Shanghai Ice Sports Meet
•2019 National Speech & Debate Association (NSDA) Shanghai Champion
•2019 Second and Third Prize in the Shanghai Python Competition
•2019 Second and Third Prize in the Shanghai Junior Writing Competition
•2019 Second and Third Prize in the Shanghai Scratch Programming Competition
•2019 Third Prize in the Shanghai High School Students Social Practice Competition
•2019 Super Gold Award in the ASDAN Math Tournament China
•2020 A Student Placed Among the Top 5 at the World Finals of NHD Competition
•2020 Third Highest Overall Score at the USAD China Competition
•2020 Second and Third Prize in the 3rd Shanghai Youth Artificial Intelligence Competition
•2020 First Prize in the National Youth Writing Competition
•2020 Second and Third Place in 8-Year-Old Group of the Shanghai Ballroom Dance Competition
•2020 Second Prize in the Shanghai Youth Robot Competition
•2020 First Place in the Group A Female of the Shanghai Youth Figure Skating Tournament
•2020 Gold, Silver and Bronze Medals in the Shanghai Pudong New Area Youth Art Competitions
•2021 A Student Scored a Perfect 100% on the AP Computer Science Exam (Accounting for 0.29% of students taking the AP Computer Science exams)
•2021 World Scholars Cup (WSC) Debate GLOBAL Competition Gold Medalist for Team Bowl, Silver Medalist for Collaborative Writing
•2021Second Prize in English Speech and Debate Pentathlon Shanghai Competition
•2021 First Prize, Gold, Silver, Bronze Award in the United States Academic Pentathlon
•2021 Second Prize in the Shanghai Youth Artificial Intelligence Competition
•2021 Regional Overall Team Gold Award (Adam Smith Division) at the National Economics Challenge, China Finals
•2021 First, Second and Third Prize for Various Categories at NHD
•2021 First and Second Prize in the Star Shanghai English Competition
•2021 Second Place in the ASDAN Business Simulation ALL-STAR Competition (Final Round)
•2021 First Prize in the Middle School Group of Shanghai Youth Artificial Intelligence (Shanghai Trial)
•2021 Second Place in the U10 Group of the 5th Shanghai Soccer Competition
•2021 Second Prize in the 29th Elementary School Students Writing Competition
•2021 Champion of MLB Cup Baseball Tournament U8
•2021 Champion of MLB Cup Baseball Tournament U10
•2021 Multiple Champions in the International Schools Baseball Tournament
•2021 Second Place in the Youth Sports Challenge Competition (100M Butterfly)
•2021 Second Place in the 3rd National Youth Art Competition
•2021 Gold Award in British Chemistry Olympiad (UKChO)
•2021 Gold Award in the British Biology Olympiad (BBO)
•2021 Gold and Bronze Awards in the USA-China Bio Olympiad Initiative (USABO)
•2021 Gold Award in the Canadian Chemistry
•2021 First Prize in the Shanghai and Second Prize National-Wide in the Youth Artificial Intelligence Challenge Competition
•2021 A Student’s Essay “Cyber-Athletes: The Future Is Here” Featured in a New York Times Essay Contest

SMIC Private School

SHANGHAI SMIC PRIVATE SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL DIVISION

No. 169, Qing-Tong Road Pudong New Area,
Shanghai, China 201203
Tel: +86-21-2033-2588