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1) Approval as an international high‑school curriculum pilot by the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission — The school's “About” page states Maple Leaf International School–Shanghai was approved as one of the first 21 pilot high‑school international curriculum classes by the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission; this indicates local education‑authority permission to run international curriculum programs in Shanghai.
2) Affiliation with Maple Leaf Educational Systems — The website clearly presents the campus as part of the Maple Leaf Educational Systems network; this is an organizational affiliation that connects the school to a larger operator and its curriculum models, but it is not the same as an independent external accreditation body.
3) On‑site reference to Maple Leaf's “World School” curriculum and to prior BC (British Columbia) curriculum use — school pages and staff interviews describe the campus as implementing Maple Leaf's World School program and note historical use of the BC curriculum; the website presents these as the school's chosen curriculum frameworks but does not, on the pages I reviewed, show formal external accreditation documents from bodies such as the British Columbia Ministry of Education, IB, CIS or other international accreditors. (Reference: program/leadership pages and interviews on the school site.)
Note on source coverage: the items above are limited to statements and pages published on the school's website. I did not find additional external accreditation certificates or specific third‑party accreditations listed on the school site (for example, an IB authorization page, a WASC/CIS accreditation statement, or a BC Ministry registration page). If you'd like, I can search external (non‑school) sources for any third‑party accreditations not published on the school site.
No school‑level awards listed on the school website in the past five years (per site content) — I reviewed the school's news and about pages and did not find any items that describe awards given to the school itself (most news posts are events, ceremonies, student achievements, or program descriptions). The site's news index and article list show recent items (open days, ceremonies, student stories) but do not show school‑level award announcements for the last five years.
If you want me to check outside the school website (local education bureau notices, regional news, Maple Leaf group announcements) for any school awards or third‑party accreditations granted in the past five years, I can run that search next — tell me if you want only official government/inspector records or any publicly reported awards.
Shanghai Maple Leaf Bilingual School opened in September 2013 and is located at No.1 Fengye Street in historic Fengjing Town, at the junction of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai. The campus occupies about 150 mu and the site states the school enrolled around 1,000 middle- and high-school students and employs roughly 180 staff, including about 40 international teachers. The school is listed on the site as one of the first 21 pilot schools approved by the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission to run international high‑school curriculum programs; the site also highlights regular international‑university admissions and graduation events. The school presents both Chinese-language materials and bilingual (Chinese/English) communications on its pages, notes a named international‑curriculum leadership team, and publishes news about student performances and English language events on the campus. For specific tuition, class-size or bus-service details the school site points parents to the admissions materials and contact numbers.
