Nanning No.2 High School International Division: The 2026 Guide for International Families

Introduction

Nanning No.2 High School International Division (南宁市第二中学国际部) is the international programme of one of the oldest and most respected public high schools in Guangxi, China. The parent school opened in 1906 — in 2026 it marks 120 years. The International Division is much younger: it started in April 2012, after approval by the Guangxi Department of Education, and was Nanning’s first Sino-foreign cooperative education programme.

This guide is written in plain English for families outside China. It answers the simple questions first: where the school is, why local families rank it so highly, what the International Division teaches, and who is allowed to apply.

Key Facts at a Glance

Where Is the School?

The International Division sits on the Fengling Campus, which is the senior high school campus of Nanning No.2. The address is 66 Yunjing Road, Qingxiu District, Nanning (南宁市青秀区云景路66号), postcode 530029.

Qingxiu District is the newer, greener side of Nanning. It holds most of the city’s government offices, business towers and modern housing. The Fengling area is a hill district on the east side of the city. The division gives the campus area as 453 mu, which is roughly 30 hectares. (Baidu Baike lists 423 mu. Either way it is one of the largest high school campuses in the city.) The International Division office is in Room 110 of the administration building.

For families in Southeast Asia, Nanning is easier to reach than Beijing or Shanghai. The airport has direct flights to several ASEAN cities. Living costs are also much lower than in China’s first-tier cities.

This matters, because parents often arrive at the wrong gate. Nanning No.2 runs three campuses:

The school also helped found a partner school, Nanning ASEAN Middle School (南宁市东盟中学), in 2013. It is a separate school with its own management.

Why Is Nanning No.2 High School So Famous?

Outside China, almost nobody has heard of this school. Inside Guangxi, it is a household name. Here is why, in order of how much weight local families give each point.

What Is the International Division?

The International Division was approved by the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Department of Education in April 2012, under document number 桂教国交〔2012〕44号. The division describes itself as Nanning’s first Sino-foreign cooperative education programme and one of Guangxi’s first group of demonstration international schools.

The programme is small and stable. It takes 120 students a year into four classes and runs for three years. Teaching is at the Fengling Campus. On the division’s own numbers that works out at about 30 students per class.

Curriculum

The programme is AP-led. AP stands for Advanced Placement — university-level courses from the United States, taken while still in high school, and accepted by universities in many countries. The division lists seven AP subjects:

Since 2025 the division has also marketed a “double-A” offer — AP plus Cambridge A-Level — and calls itself the first international school in South China to run both as gold-medal programmes. A-Level is the main British qualification and is the stronger route for students targeting UK universities. See the note above on how many classes each stream actually gets.

Career planning, leadership and study-skills courses are all added from Grade 10. Every class has both a Chinese and a foreign homeroom teacher. The university counselling centre is led by a specialist with 15 years of experience in overseas applications, with an average of six years across the team.

Authorisations and Partners

This is where the division separates itself from the many Chinese schools that simply teach AP. Its published list of authorisations and awards includes:

Tuition

Tuition is RMB 78,000 per year, and that includes textbooks. The division published the same figure for the 2025 intake and for the 2026 spring transfer intake, so the fee has held steady. At mid-2026 exchange rates it is roughly US$11,000.

This is a public school international division, and the fee is well below what private international schools in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen normally charge. What is not published is boarding, meals, uniform, examination entry fees, or the cost of the overseas trips described below. Ask for a full written cost breakdown before you commit.

University Results

This is the strongest part of the division’s public record. Read the numbers with one thing in mind: these are offer counts, not student counts. One student who applies to nine University of California campuses and gets five is five offers. That is normal practice and not dishonest, but it means an offer total is several times larger than the class size.

Destinations span the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Singapore, Ireland and Hong Kong.

The breakdown by university group — 841 University of California offers, 601 from Australia’s Group of Eight, and so on — comes from the 2024 brochure, so it covers the first eleven cohorts rather than all twelve.

For a single year group, the most recent officially published figures are for the class of 2024: 420 offers, scholarships of about RMB 3.69 million, more than six offers per student on average, and a best individual result of 11 offers with a US$54,000 scholarship.

The class of 2025 is covered inside the cumulative totals above. The division has not published a separate offer report for that cohort on any page we could verify.

These universities are named in the school’s own offer reports for the classes of 2024 and 2026:

Read the pattern rather than the peaks. The bulk of the record sits in strong public research universities in the US, Russell Group universities in the UK, and Group of Eight universities in Australia. The division does also report Ivy League and UK G5 offers — 143 and 69 respectively across twelve years — so elite outcomes happen, but they are the exception across more than 970 graduates, not the norm. For a family that wants a dependable route into a good English-speaking university, with a real chance at something higher, this is an honest and useful record.

Who Can Apply?

There are two separate routes, and this matters enormously for families outside Nanning. Most guides only mention the first.

This is the main intake: 120 places a year for current-year junior high graduates.

A supplementary round for the 2026 intake opened on 31 July 2026. For that round the division also required that the applicant had no grade D in any subject and had not already been admitted to another high school. (Source: division’s official WeChat account, located via Sogou WeChat search. No permanent link available.)

This is the route most families outside Nanning do not know exists. For the spring 2026 transfer intake, the division accepted:

Places on this route are limited and admission is competitive. But the eligibility wording is explicitly national, not local.

Contact Details for the International Division

What We Could Not Confirm

We only publish what we can check. We searched for the following and found nothing published, so we list them as open questions rather than guessing:

Living in Nanning

Nanning is a green, warm, mid-sized Chinese capital city of several million people. It is known inside China as the “Green City” for its tree cover. The climate is subtropical: hot and wet summers, mild winters, and almost no snow.

Is This School Right for Your Child?

Be honest about the fit. This is a Chinese academic school with an international programme bolted on, not a Western-style international school.

Disclosure: Alifa Education Services is an independent education placement consultancy. We may earn a referral fee from partner schools when families enrol, at no extra cost to the family. Our recommendations are based on fit, not fee structure.

Sources

Last verified: August 2026. Figures published by a school about its own results are self-reported. We have not independently audited the offer counts or scholarship totals.