The SMIC Private School Shanghai

SMIC's Counseling Office states that it provides school-wide social-emotional learning through Life Skills classes, weekly character/“Character Counts” assemblies, small-group and individual counselling, and an Advisory programme in middle school. The counselling team is named on the site (Head of Counseling Office Phil Chu and grade-level counselors) and works with students, families, and faculty to deliver these services. Elementary–middle–high highlights on the Counseling page describe specific initiatives such as a Big Brother/Big Sister mentoring program, character classes, and an Academic Recovery Program for students who need extra academic support. The school describes counseling as aligned with its Expected School-Wide Learning Results (Healthy Individuals, Motivated Learners, Persons of Character, Global Citizens).

The school's published Admissions Criteria states that SMIC does not have the personnel and equipment resources to work with students who have specialized schooling requirements and that it does not offer programs for students with special needs. This indicates SMIC is not a specialist SEN institution and does not provide dedicated special-education programmes on its site. The Admissions page gives this directly as the school's position rather than listing categories of SEN it can support. Parents of students with identified or complex special educational needs should therefore treat the school as not offering in-house specialist SEN provision.

SMIC's Admissions Criteria requires that all International Division applicants be proficient in speaking, listening, reading and writing in English and describes specific English assessments for entry by grade. The school's public material does not describe a dedicated EAL/ESL programme for students who need staged English-language support; therefore the school does not publicly disclose specific EAL provision. For applicants and families this means applicants are expected to demonstrate English proficiency at entry and there is no detailed, published EAL pathway on the school website.

The school describes mental health and wellbeing as a school priority and identifies mental health, nutrition, functional fitness, and healthy relationships as major focuses of its holistic health provision. Counseling services include personal one-on-one counselling, small-group work, Life Skills courses, and academic recovery supports; the site also states counselors ensure mental, emotional and physical safety in individual counselling. The Counseling page lists staff roles and describes collaborative work with families and faculty to address students' wellbeing needs. These statements and programmes are presented on the school's published Counseling and main pages.

SMIC's Counseling pages include a Child Protection section stating the school embraces responsibility for child protection, lists types of abuse (neglect, emotional, sexual, physical), and specifies that staff must be vigilant and report concerns immediately to the Child Protection Office (a designated member of the Counseling Office). The page also states students are encouraged to report bullying or abuse and that confidentiality cannot be guaranteed where safety is compromised. These child-protection arrangements and reporting expectations are described on the school's published Counseling information.