Shanghai High School

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Shanghai High School

Motto	读书，明理，做人，成材
Established	1865
Type	State-owned
Principal	Shengchang Tang
Faculty	178
Students	over 3000
Location	989 Baise Road, Xuhui, Shanghai, PRC
Campus	56 acres
Website	Shanghai High School（English Version） 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.