Shenzhen Foreign Languages School is a middle school and high school in China which specializes in language studies. Located in

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, a coastal

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in Guangdong Province, China, it provides students with study in

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, French,

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and

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. Besides excellence in languages, Shenzhen Foreign Languages School is well known for its performance in the Chinese university administration examination, commonly known as the

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. 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

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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 middle 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. A primary school was launched in 2000. In 2001, the school launched its branch school (

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). Led by principal Ms. Wu, it is located in

Longgang District, Shenzhen Longgang District () is one of the nine districts of Shenzhen, Guangdong. It is located in northeastern Shenzhen. With an area of , Longgang District is one of the largest districts by area in Guangdong province. The population of the district i ...

. However, it does not offer foreign languages other than English. In 2003, the Senior High Department was moved to the seaside

Yantian District Yantian District () is one of the nine districts of the city of Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. It is adjacent to Shenzhen River and Hong Kong to the south, and is surrounded by Luohu, Longgang and Pingshan districts of Shenzhen. Before 1960s, t ...

, at the foot of

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. 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

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, Harvard,

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, Berkeley, Stanford, Swarthmore,

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, Boston College, Carnegie Mellon University,

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Student activities

* Arts Festival * Foreign Languages Festival * Sports Festival * Science and Technology Festival * spring outing/autumn outing(two times a year, regardless of the weather) * Lei Feng day sale * Basketball * Football * Badminton * Volleyball * Table Tennis

Student clubs

* Meteorological & Astronomical Observatory（SFLSMAO） * Economic Association * Cooking Club * Hip Hop Club * Yoga Club * Kungfu Club * Music Club * Costume Designing Club * Designing Association * Magic Club * Model United Nations * Comic and Animation Club * Model Court * Model United Nations * Environmental Protection Association * Biological Experiments Club * Chemistry Experiment Club * Chess Club * Frisbee Club * Basketball Club * Football Club * Volleyball Club * Badminton Club * Orienteering Club * Taekwondo Club

International school division

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

Sister schools

Hangzhou Foreign Language School Hangzhou Foreign Languages School (HFLS) (Chinese: 杭州外国语学校 (simp.)/杭州外國語學校 (trad.)), colloquially referred to as "Hangwai"(杭外), is a grade 7–12 public high school located in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. Founded in ...

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Shenzhen Baihe Foreign Languages School

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 (or BFLS) became a competitive "opponent" of SFLS in the Chinese Senior High School Enrollment Examination, known as

Zhongkao The Senior High School Entrance Examination, or commonly known as ''Zhongkao'' (Chinese: 中考, ), is the academic examination held annually in the mainland of the People's Republic of China to distinguish junior high school graduates. This exam ...

. However, those two schools remain in the first two in ranking of academics programmes. Recently, it started an experimental Japanese Language and Culture classes.

References

External links

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{{Ordinary high schools in Shenzhen Foreign-language high schools in China High schools in Shenzhen Educational institutions established in 1990 1990 establishments in China