Shenzhen Foreign Languages School


Shenzhen Foreign Languages School is a middle school and high school in China which specializes in language studies. Located in Shenzhen, a coastal special economic zone in Guangdong Province, China, it provides students with study in English, Japanese, French, German, Spanish and Russian. Besides excellence in languages, Shenzhen Foreign Languages School is well known for its performance in the Chinese university administration examination, commonly known as the Gaokao. In a 2016 ranking of Chinese high schools that send students to study in American universities, Shenzhen Foreign Language School ranked number 19 in mainland China in terms of the number of students entering top American universities.

History

The first Principal Mr. Gong Guoxiang started the school in 1990, with nine teachers, 50 students and three classrooms. In 1994, the school, with its secondary and high school department, moved to its new site in the heart of the city at Hongli Road and Yannan Road. It was also the Center for Japanese Language Research back then.
In 2001, the school launched its branch school. Led by principal Ms. Wu, it is located in Longgang District, Shenzhen. However, it does not offer foreign languages other than English.
In 2004
In 2003, the Senior High Department was moved to the seaside Yantian District, at the foot of Wutong Mountain. Today, Shenzhen Foreign Languages School has been expanded to an integrated school-system with Primary School, Secondary School, High School, Longgang Branch, and a kindergarten.

Admissions

It has an entrance examination for admittance to the junior high school level. In 2004 it had about 6th grade 1,300 test takers and planned to accept about 384 for grade 7. That year it introduced a new aspect of the examination where students take 30 minutes to review material in a language other than English and then answer questions in the remaining 30 minutes.

Activities

The students are involved in a variety of academic contests, extracurricular activities, varsity sports and international communication. It has a foreign exchange program with Alcester Grammar School in Warwickshire, England.
With the help of a recently established Advanced Placement center, graduates of the school have gone on abroad to become students of well-known universities such as Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard, Brown, Rice, Chicago, Berkeley, Stanford, Swarthmore, Cornell, Boston College, Carnegie Mellon University, Duke, and Pomona.

Student activities

is the division for students with foreign, Republic of China on Taiwan, and Hong Kong and Macao passports.

Sister schools

Originally Shenzhen Foreign Languages School Branch, but separated from SFLS in 2007. It is the first and only public middle school that offers boarding in Shenzhen. After the separation, Baihe Foreign Languages school became a competitive "opponent" of SFLS in the Chinese Senior High School Enrollment Examination, known as Zhongkao. However, those two schools remain in the first two in ranking of academics programmes. Recently, it started an experimental Japanese Language and Culture classes.