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SSIS operates a bespoke Minhang campus with on-site spaces for academics, arts, sports, and student life. Facilities include an Amphitheatre and an Auditorium, multiple cafeterias, and an Early Year Library, plus a Performing Arts Centre, Dance Room, and Music Studio. The campus houses STEM and learning spaces, including Physics, Chemistry, and Biology laboratories, an iMac Lab, STEAM fabrication and Maker spaces, and a Knowledge Hub. On the sports side, SSIS provides an Indoor Gymnasium, a Fitness Centre, a Swimming Pool, a Gymnastics Room, a natural-grass football pitch, and an outdoor track; a Golf Learning Centre and a Golf Driving Range support its golf programme. The campus also features a Farm to School space and a Chinese Culture Room. A Virtual Campus Tour showcases these spaces.
SSIS provides on-campus sports facilities including an Indoor Aquatic Centre, a fully equipped fitness room, a natural-grass football pitch, an outdoor track, a gymnastics room, an indoor gymnasium, and multi-purpose spaces for a range of sports. The SSIS Go Swim Programme provides swimming instruction from an early age. The Golf Learning Centre and Golf Driving Range support the golf programme on campus, with on-course practice at Sun Island Kunshan Golf Club (a 27-hole championship course).
Academic spaces include Physics Lab, Chemistry Lab, and Biology Lab to support hands-on science learning. The iMac Lab supports digital and creative work, while STEAM spaces encompass Fabrication Space, Maker Space, Robotics facilities, and related Creative/Engineering activities. The Knowledge Hub serves as a central learning commons for research and collaboration, and the Early Year Library supports literacy development in the youngest cohort.
SSIS offers a broad range of extracurricular opportunities through its Activities Overview, including sports, aesthetics, and clubs via the Co-Curricular Programme and After School Programme. The school is a Duke of Edinburgh International Award Centre, offering Bronze, Silver or Gold awards with mentor support for Senior School students aged 13+. Learning Outdoors provides field trips, excursions and camps, including the Farm to School project and organized outdoor experiences. The Weekend Programme offers paid activities from external vendors to deepen skills beyond the classroom, and a House System supports student leadership and belonging through various clubs and activities.
Shanghai Singapore International School (SSIS) opened on 3 September 1996 and provides a continuous K–12 pathway for expatriate children aged 2–18; the school reports a community of about 1,400 students. The campus is listed at 301 Zhujian Road, Minhang District, Shanghai. SSIS follows a blended curriculum pathway that includes the Singapore curriculum at lower levels, Cambridge IGCSE in middle secondary, and the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (with IBDP and IBCP authorisations noted in the school history). The school describes a bilingual approach (English + Chinese); its Chinese Language & Culture Programme provides banded classes (Advanced / Standard / Foundation) and the preschool programme indicates a roughly 70% English / 30% Chinese instruction ratio. SSIS also highlights a curriculum-integrated golf programme and an on-campus Aquatic Centre.
