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China, Hangzhou
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• Council of British International Schools (COBIS) — The school's website states Hiba Academy Hangzhou is accredited by COBIS. COBIS is a professional membership and quality-assurance body for British international schools; accreditation signals the school meets COBIS standards for governance, teaching and welfare.
• Federation of British International Schools in Asia (FOBISIA) — the website states the school is a member of FOBISIA. FOBISIA is a network of British-style schools in Asia that coordinates inter-school events and provides professional links; membership indicates access to FOBISIA events and the peer network used for benchmarking and collaboration.
Note: the school's public website does not list any additional formal accreditations beyond COBIS and FOBISIA; other affiliations (for example, governance within Wellington College Education (China)) are described on the site but are not presented there as separate external accreditations.
(Only awards explicitly presented on the school website and dated within the past five years are listed below.)
• Forbes China International Schools Annual Selection — ranked top bilingual school in Hangzhou and placed in national lists (Forbes mentions on the site for 2021, 2024 and 2025). These Forbes rankings are external recognitions of the school's overall standing among bilingual/international schools in China.
• KingLead 2025 – Nursery 5A ranking (China's Top 30 International Kindergartens 2025) — the site reports the nursery achieved a 5A (top) rating across core categories in KingLead's 2025 rankings; this is an external sector ranking applied to the school's nursery provision.
• Carnegie Centre of Excellence in Mental Health in Schools — Silver standard ("Further Education Mental Health Award") awarded to Wellington College Education (China) - Hangzhou, as reported on the school site. This is an external standard/award for whole-school mental-health practice; the site notes it is the first school in China to receive this Silver standard.
• COBIS Beacon School recognition for governance practices — the school's governance page states that COBIS named Wellington College International Hangzhou a "Beacon School" for its governance, an external recognition of governance practices. (The governance page presents this recognition in the context of the Wellington College Education (China) / Hangzhou campus.)
If you'd like, I can (a) pull the exact dates and full text for any of the items above from the site pages, or (b) check external sources (COBIS, FOBISIA, Forbes, KingLead, Carnegie) to confirm dates and the awarding organisations' descriptions. Which would you prefer?
Hiba Academy Hangzhou (杭州市萧山区惠立学校) is the Wellington/Hiba group bilingual campus in Xiaoshan, offering an on-site nursery plus primary and secondary pathways that lead to IGCSE and A‑Level study. The school opened as part of the Wellington/Hiba group in 2018 and is located at 学知路2399号 in Xiaoshan. Teaching combines bilingual (Chinese–English) immersion with the British-style secondary route (IGCSE → A‑Level). The campus operates a boarding provision (students may apply from Year 3) and a pastoral '幸福关怀' programme; a daily school-bus service is also offered for eligible pupils. The nursery publishes an annual保教费 (tuition) of 249,900元/年 on the school's nursery admissions/fees page. Prospective parents should contact the admissions office for up-to-date year‑group entry ages, current fees for primary/secondary and available places.
