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• Cognia (announced on the school website, August 24, 2023): Cognia is an international non‑profit accreditor (formerly AdvancED) that evaluates schools against standards for institutional effectiveness and continuous improvement; the school's announcement describes Cognia accreditation as a recognised external validation of school quality and ongoing improvement.
• WASC — Accrediting Commission for Schools (announced on the school website, February 21, 2024; accreditation stated to extend through June 30, 2027): WASC is one of the regional U.S. school accrediting agencies; WASC accreditation indicates the school has completed a self‑study and external review and meets WASC's criteria for institutional effectiveness and student learning.
• Exam‑centre and programme authorisations listed on the school website (described on the site as six official test centres and six course centres): the website states the school hosts six test/exam centres (including IELTS, TOEFL, Cambridge English) and six course centres (including A‑Level, AP, BTEC), and it notes a large number of authorised international competition test‑centre qualifications (the site lists these program/centre authorisations as institutional recognitions that allow the school to deliver or administer specific external examinations and curricula). These items are presented on the school website as official authorisations rather than the same kind of institutional accreditation as Cognia or WASC.
(I searched only the school's official website and list below only awards shown there that were given to the school itself in the past five years.)
• “五星级雅思示范中学” (Five‑Star IELTS Demonstration School) — announced March 29, 2024: the school's site reports that at the British Council/IELTS exam department annual meeting (“闪耀Shine2024”) the school received the Five‑Star IELTS Demonstration School designation and was added to the IELTS Chinese partner‑school list; the page notes only a small number of schools received this designation nationally.
• “2022年度国际化教育前沿发展示范学校” — announced in the school's 2022 news item about the Sina & Weibo 2022 Education Ceremony/International Education Summit: the school reports it was selected for this honour following parent recommendations and expert evaluation, presented at that industry event.
• “2022年度国际化人才培养杰出品牌” (from the 2022 Tencent Education International School Development Forum) — reported on the school website: this award was presented at Tencent Education's industry forum and is described on the school site as recognising the school's role in internationalised talent development.
• Two awards at the China International Fair for Trade in Services (服贸会), 2023 — reported on the school website: the school's news item about its participation in the 2023 Service Trade Fair states the school's creative project(s) won two awards at the event; the site frames these as institutional awards won by the school team.
Note on sources and scope: all items above are taken from pages or news posts on Beijing Aidi School's official website (aidi.edu.cn / the school's news pages). I did not include student‑level awards (for example the Cambridge “Top in the World” prizes to individual students) because you asked only for awards granted to the school itself. If you'd like, I can (a) pull the exact news‑post URLs and date lines for each item, (b) list the exam/course centre names and the site's stated counts (the site uses slightly different counts in different pages), or (c) check external accreditors' directories (Cognia, WASC, Cambridge, College Board) for their public records of the school's status.
Beijing Aidi School (Beijing Aidi International School) is a K–12 school on the Beijing Aidi International Education Park campus at No.7 Louzizhuang Road in Chaoyang District. The school states it was founded in 1999 and enrols students aged 3–18. The campus houses a range of academic and sports facilities and an international high school offering multiple pathways (IGCSE, A‑level, WACE/Australian high school certificate, AP, BTEC and domestic high‑school programmes); the site notes the school's Australian high school (WACE) has been in place since 2004. The school publishes articles and a feature about student dorm life (student hostels) for senior students and a campus FAQ states it operates a school‑bus service for younger year groups. (All items above are taken from the school website.)
