China, Shanghai
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All students from Nursery to Year 11 wear the school uniform. Toddler children wear their own clothes but must wear a school hat. Uniforms can be ordered online for home delivery via the Online Uniform Shop, which opened for new families on 1 August 2023 and uses a student ID to set up accounts. Summer uniform is worn April–October and Winter uniform November–March, with reminders before transitions; uniform items must be clearly labeled with the student's full name and class. The Uniform Shop can be reached at 021 3329 9330.
Lunches are provided by a catering service. The school is nut-free; the catering provider does not use nuts in its dishes, and nuts are not allowed in school. Home-packed lunches are not permitted. Lunch timing depends on the student's age.
Upon joining, students are sorted into four Houses: Song, Moussa, Yung, and Shackleton.
Dulwich Colleges in China are operated by Education in Motion (EiM) under an agreement with Dulwich College London. A Board of Management oversees strategic development and meets four times a year, and a Board of Trustees, comprising EiM representatives, four parent representatives and one Dulwich College London representative, provides advisory oversight. The Head of College and the Director of Business Administration are ex officio members of the Board of Trustees but do not have voting rights.
Dulwich College Shanghai Puxi is a co-educational day school on the Puxi (west) side of Shanghai, located in South Minhang at 2000 Qian Pu Jing Road. The Puxi campus opened in August 2016 and sits on about 40,000 sq. metres of green space. Students follow the English National Curriculum through Year 9, take IGCSEs in Years 10–11 and the IB Diploma in Years 12–13; Mandarin is taught daily with three streamed pathways (native, second-language and foreign-language). The campus includes a 50m Olympic pool, a triple gymnasium and a 500-seat theatre; classes are typically small (around 10 students in most lessons). The school publishes an annual tuition fee schedule on its site (lowest annual fee shown: RMB 141,900; highest: RMB 399,750). If you would like the campus GPS coordinates (from Google Maps), I can fetch those for you.