China, Beijing
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BCIS operates across multiple Beijing campuses: the Early Childhood Center, Courtyard Kindergarten, Elementary School, and Secondary School. The Main Campus is located at 77 Baiziwan Nan Er Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing. The Early Childhood Center notes that the school has state-of-the-art facilities. There are libraries at the ECC, Elementary School, and Secondary School campuses designed to provide a safe, welcoming environment for reading, research and lifelong learning. The libraries and other on-site spaces support learning across age groups.
BCIS provides a gym, a soccer field, a swimming pool, and a fitness room as on-site facilities. These spaces are available to the BCIS community, with opening hours posted and access subject to school events.
Three BCIS libraries—one at the Early Childhood Center, one at the Elementary School, and one at the Secondary School—are designed to create a pleasant and safe environment for teaching and learning. The libraries support reading, research and lifelong learning, with teacher librarians collaborating with teachers to integrate information literacy into the curriculum. Parents are welcome to check out books from the libraries; resources support personal, social, and emotional development. The libraries function as flexible resource centers for staff, students, parents and the wider BCIS community.
BCIS offers Enrichment Activities across Athletic, Arts & Culture and Academic categories, including Swimming, Aeromodelling, Start Up, Model United Nations, Robot Maker, Orchestra, Brain Bee and many others. Week Without Walls provides off-campus learning experiences each year for Elementary and Secondary students. BCIS supports Athletics through a dedicated program, including the BCIS Water Warriors Swim Team for Grades 2–12.
Beijing City International School (BCIS) is located in Beijing's Central Business District; the main campus address is No. 77 Baiziwan Nan Er Road (contact page). Founded in 2005, BCIS operates an Early Childhood Center nearby (Toddler–Kindergarten) and a main campus serving Grades 1–12. The school offers the International Baccalaureate Primary Years, Middle Years and Diploma Programmes and also runs its own IDEATE (personalized/high-school) pathway for Grades 11–12. English is the language of instruction; Chinese (Mandarin) is taught across grade levels and many graduates take bilingual IB options. The school publishes a detailed tuition & fees schedule on its “Tuition & Fees” page and lists a school bus service. BCIS highlights technology/STEM initiatives, green/sustainability projects and student-led programs such as the Avenir business competition and Service Learning activities. (All points sourced from the BCIS website.)