Shanghai High School

Infobox_secondary school
name=Shanghai High School
logo=
motto=读书，明理，做人，成材
established=1865
type=State-owned
principal=Shengchang Tang(唐盛昌)
country=PRC
city=Xuhui
state=Shanghai
address=989 Baise Road
campus=56 acres
faculty=178
enrollment=over 3000
website= [http://www.shs.sh.cn/ Shanghai High School] （ [http://www.shs.sh.cn/english/index.html English Version] ） [http://www.shsid.org/english/index.asp International Division]

Shanghai High School (Mandarin Chinese: 上海中学) was established in 1865 (originally named as Long Men College 龍門書院). Its name was changed to Jiangsu Shanghai High School in 1927, and it was renamed as Shanghai High School in 1950. It is amongst the top secondary schools in the People's Republic of China. The campus is located on 989 Baise Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai, China. Its junior department was separated to an Shanghai Huayu Middle School (Chin:上海市民办华育中學）in 1999.

It has a long history and campus of 340 mu (about 56 acres). In the last five years, 95% of the graduates of Shanghai High School have attended the most elite universities in China. In 2006, this percentage increased to 99%. Of those students, 65% attended either Peking University, Tsinghua University, Fudan University or Shanghai Jiaotong University.

In June 1993, Shanghai High School became the first Chinese school to start an international division. In 1995, Shanghai High School International Division became the first to offer an International Baccalaureate program. More than 1750 students from the United States, Japan, Korea, Canada, England, Italy, Germany, Australia, Yugoslavia, Iran, Egypt, Venezuela, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan represent just some of the fifty plus countries and regions represented at Shanghai High School International Division. In 2005, 37.5% graduates entered top 20 universities in the US.

In 2003, Shanghai High School became a UNESCO associated School. That October, it became the first "Shanghai Municipal Demonstration School." Shanghai High School is marching towards the goal of being "Leading in China, Renowned in the World; Excellent Teaching, Efficient Management".

Among the alumni, over eighty have become provincial and state leaders, over twenty have become military generals; over fifty have become academicians; over one hundred have become local government officials; and countless have become professionals of business and industry.

Shanghai High School is a sister school of St. Paul's Co-educational College in Hong Kong.

Restriction of Regular Division Students to Apply to Overseas Colleges

It should be noted that this Senior Three student who applied to overseas colleges is being restricted, mainly in the performance of the following: 1, the general need to apply for the American University report card, and once to open the school report card of the Registrar Office, sent automatically to give up all Jiafenzhengce. The report card scores can not be altered. 2, in the open when they need to write a report card statement or college entrance examination. If the taking of American University and the College Entrance to the statement at the time must also test if there is no statement at the time not to take college entrance exams can not be temporary, non-performance related to the school to give their college entrance examination procedures for the qualification. 3, in the first year of the General Assembly on public criticism sat the exam students and teachers from time to time to allow the students to look for heart-related, if the decline in performance, the higher the frequency of heart, causing a certain degree of psychological pressure. 4, according to the survey, several of the above is likely to be from the current provisions of Tangsheng Chang heads.

Principals

*Tang, Shouqian(汤寿潜)
*Yang, Xianjiang(杨贤江)
*Ou, Yuanhuai(欧元怀)
*Zheng, Tonghe(郑通和)
*Wang, Shikan(王士侃)
*Wu, Ruinian(吴瑞年)
*Shen, Yizhen(沈亦珍)
*Sun, Fuxi(孙福熙)
*Chen, Guangzu(陈光祖)
*Ye, Keping(叶克平)
*Bai, Zaili(白宰理)
*Fang, Qi'ao(方启敖)
*Tang, Shengchang (current principal)

Alumni

*Zeng Qinghong (曾庆红): Vice President of the People's Republic of China
*Li Yuanchao (李源潮)
*An Wang (王安): computer engineer
*Liu Yizheng (柳詒徵): historian

External links

*en icon [http://www.shs.sh.cn/english/Introduction.htm Official site]
*cn icon [http://www.shs.sh.cn Official site]