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Shanghai Livingston American School was founded after a January 2001 visit by founder Thomas Sheng and advisor (former U.S. Congressman) Robert Livingston to Beijing seeking permission to open American-style schools; China's Vice Premier Li Lanqing approved the first campus in Shanghai. SLAS was established to implement an American educational system from pre‑school through grade 12, following California public school curriculum and standards. The school's founding leadership recruited an experienced principal and a teaching staff chosen for prior classroom and administrative success. From its early years SLAS emphasized technological literacy, arts and humanities, ESL support for non‑native English speakers, and student safety as central priorities.
The SLAS community is internationally diverse, with more than thirty nationalities represented among students. School life includes regular curricular and co‑curricular events — examples on the school news feed include Spirit Week and a Halloween parade, seasonal concerts, science and engineering fairs, culinary projects (Wildcats Kitchen) and trips such as visits to the Zotter chocolate factory, and participation in regional competitions like the ACAMIS Vox Cup. The school also runs community service activities and coordinates occasional service trips to a rural sister school as part of its broader community engagement.
The SLAS Parent Teacher Association (PTA) is structured to gather input from parents, teachers and students and to meet regularly to identify concerns, design improvement plans, and recognize achievements. PTA members help plan experiential programs including a fall and spring overnight field trip and community service trips to a newly selected rural sister school. The PTA page lists an executive board with named officers and community liaisons (for example, Rupali Singh — President; Leah Wang — Secretary; plus Chinese, Japanese and Korean community liaisons). The site provides a contact form for parents to send questions or messages to the PTA. The PTA's stated role focuses on practical coordination of family‑school activities and direct parent involvement in planning those trips and meetings.
Shanghai Livingston American School (SLAS) opened its original campus on August 26, 2003 and moved to its current Ganxi Road site in Changning District in January 2005. SLAS follows an American curriculum that aligns with California public-school standards and offers Advanced Placement (AP) courses in the high school program. The school publishes age cutoffs from Nursery (age 2) through Grade 12 and provides a door-to-door school bus service for Shanghai addresses (with published semester rates). SLAS also lists a community-service programme and foreign-language classes (students have taken French, Japanese, Spanish and Chinese), and the school highlights school libraries and arts/music offerings as regular parts of its programme. All facts above are taken from the school website.
