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China, Shanghai
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Dulwich College Shanghai Pudong opened in 2003 as the first Dulwich College International school, launched through a partnership between parents Fraser White and Karen Yung and Dulwich College London. It began with 23 students and has since expanded substantially within the Dulwich network. The school is part of the Education in Motion (EiM) family that developed the Dulwich College International schools. In 2024 the group that operates the Dulwich schools in Asia received new backing from Hillhouse Investment Group at group level.
The campus serves a broadly international student body—over 1,600 students from more than forty nationalities according to the school site—and uses a House system (Wangari Maathai, Marie Curie, Ernest Shackleton and Yung Wing) to build cross‑year connections. The school highlights coordinated pastoral support, student leadership through Houses, and a wide range of co‑curricular activities (sport, music, drama, and more) as the primary ways the community engages. Dulwich Pudong also works with the wider Dulwich network and schedules campus events and parent-facing activities to strengthen ties between families, staff and the local community.
The parent association is called Friends of Dulwich (FoD); all enrolled families are members and the group is run by volunteer parents working with the school's leadership. FoD runs newcomer and parent‑connection programmes—welcome coffees, monthly coffee mornings, luncheons and an Ambassador programme that pairs new families with established ones. Major events organised or supported by FoD include the Winter Fair, the World Expo (a cultural celebration), a Daddy‑Daughter Ball, Dads & Lads sports activities, a walk‑a‑thon and an end‑of‑year art auction. Ongoing FoD activities include community markets, used‑uniform and used‑book sales, charity fundraising, and committees that support class reps and year‑level communication. FoD's leadership is organised through a core committee (Chair, Treasurer, parent representatives by school phase and other officers) who typically serve one academic year and coordinate the annual calendar with school staff; FoD also produces practical resources for new families (for example a regular “Shanghai Secrets” guide).
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.
