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Hiba Academy Nantong is part of the Wellington (China) Education Group, a network that traces its educational lineage to the original Wellington College in the UK. The Wellington (China) group began opening schools in China from 2011 and later established the Huili/Wellington bilingual pathway and related schools. According to the school's site, Hiba Academy Nantong (South Tong Huili) opened as the group's flagship bilingual boarding school in 2022. The group uses a multi‑tier governance structure (executive board, school advisory boards and specialist committees) to provide strategic oversight for its member schools.
The school presents an international, bilingual community that regularly stages campus events bringing together students, families and staff. Recent items on the school news feed document large community occasions such as a multi‑hour summer carnival with a cultural market and performances, and tiered sports days for different age groups. The news pages also show arts performances, summer programmes and career‑exploration activities that draw broad participation from the school community.
The school's parent‑community organisation, called “Friends of Huili” (FoH), is made up of parents, teachers and other community members and is described on the site as an organising body for education, cultural and social activities. FoH's stated role includes creating opportunities that support student social service, leadership and career‑related experiences, and its structure is designed to allow flexible parent participation. The site characterises FoH as a driving force behind many of the school's annual highlight events. Examples of activities and events that illustrate this community work include the summer carnival (which combined performances, a cultural market and family activities) and school career‑exploration days and productions listed in the school's news archive. Parents are invited to participate in those events in a variety of roles, from volunteering at stalls to supporting performances and school initiatives.
Hiba Academy Nantong (also called Huili School Nantong) is a bilingual school on an 80,000 m² campus in the Su‑Xi‑Tong Science & Technology Industrial Park. The school offers an Hiba Early Years programme (merging EYFS and the Chinese curriculum), followed by a 12‑year pathway covering Primary, Junior High and Senior High. The website states a campus capacity of 2,000 pupils and purpose‑built boarding houses for up to 800 boarders; the school describes a co‑teaching model in Chinese and English and a compulsory wellbeing subject in the curriculum. The site also lists a teacher–student ratio (1:5) and daily school bus provision. Where the website does not give a current enrolment figure it reports the campus design capacity instead.
