Introduction
Tsinglan School (清澜山学校) is a private bilingual international school in Dongguan, in China’s Greater Bay Area. It was funded by Huawei and its teaching is run by the High School Affiliated to Tsinghua University. It teaches children from age two and a half to Grade 12, and it runs two athletic academies with their own admissions process: tennis and fencing.
This guide is written for families comparing schools from outside China. We only use information the school and official bodies publish themselves. Where a fact is not published, we say so instead of guessing. That matters at Tsinglan, because some numbers repeated on other websites cannot be traced to any official source.
Quick answer: Tsinglan School serves children from age two and a half through Grade 12 and operates separate tennis and fencing academies with their own admissions processes.
Tsinglan School at a Glance
Key school information based on Tsinglan School’s published materials and public accreditation records.
| Category | Details |
|---|---|
| Founded | August 2017 |
| Ages / grades | 2.5 to 18 years (Pre-K to Grade 12) |
| School type | Private bilingual international school (民办双语国际化学校) |
| Funded by | Huawei. Teaching and operations are run by Tsinghua High School. |
| Location | Songshan Lake, Dongguan, Guangdong |
| Curricula | Chinese national curriculum, IGCSE, AP and A-Level |
| Students | About 2,022, of whom 527 are in high school |
| Class size | 20 to 24 students |
| Boarding | Available from Grade 6 |
| Accreditation | WASC (2024–2029) and Cognia (since June 2021) |
| Signature programmes | Tennis Academy (2019) and Fencing Academy |
| Class of 2026 | 93 graduates and 532 offers as of April 2026, including Stanford and Penn |
Source note: Student and staff figures are from the school’s 2025–2026 School Profile. Accreditation is confirmed in the WASC and Cognia public registers.
Who Built Tsinglan, and Who Runs It
The simplest way to understand Tsinglan is this: Huawei paid for the school, and Tsinghua High School runs the teaching. Those are two different roles, and mixing them up is the most common mistake in English-language write-ups.
Funding and construction
Huawei
The school states that it was fully funded and built through Huawei’s investment.
Teaching and operations
Tsinghua High School
The school’s education, daily teaching and operational management are handled by Tsinghua High School.
The school’s own website says it was “fully funded by Huawei” (由华为全额投资建设). Tsinghua High School is a top school in China. It is linked to Tsinghua University. The school takes care of education and also manages daily operations.
We checked the legal status with the Dongguan Education Bureau. It’s in their register of licensed private schools. The school’s registered name is 东莞市松山湖清澜山学校. Its licence number is 教民144190030002850. The school started in July 2017. The registered operator is Huawei Training (Dongguan) Co., Ltd. (华为培训（东莞）有限公司). The kindergarten holds its own separate licence as 东莞市松山湖清澜山幼儿园.
So it is not accurate to call Tsinglan “a Huawei school.” It is a private school, open to applications, that Huawei financed and that an academic partner operates. The main campus sits in Songshan Lake, close to Huawei’s own campus in the same district.
The principal is Li Wenping (李文平). Before Tsinglan, she was a principal who ran the International Department at Tsinghua High School. The school describes roughly 20 years of work followed by 12 years at the forefront of Chinese and international education.
A number we have left out. You will see it stated elsewhere that Huawei invested RMB 500 million in the school. We could trace that figure to only one source, a 2020 article from a Tsinghua University department, and we could not open a working link to it. The school’s own website and the Dongguan Education Bureau publish no figure at all. We mention the claim only so you know why this guide does not treat it as a fact.
The Campus, Boarding Facilities, and Songshan Lake Location
Tsinglan has two campuses in Songshan Lake. The main campus, for Grades 1 to 12, is at 8 Tainan Road. The kindergarten is a short distance away at the Huawei Southern Apartments on Industrial North Third Road (工业北三路). The school describes its grounds as close to 30 acres, which is about 120,000 square metres. It does not publish a separate land area for each campus.
Facilities
Sport: The school has indoor sports facilities. These include two gymnasiums, a fencing hall, an archery hall, and a swimming pool. It also has a fitness centre, four outdoor tennis courts, a football pitch, and a 400-metre track.
Arts:
A 550-seat theatre
A black box theatre
Two Steinway grand pianos
Individual music practice rooms
Studios for 2D and 3D design, fashion and textiles, wood and mixed materials, calligraphy, metal, and clay and ceramics
Academic: A library and an advanced research laboratory for high school students.
One small note: the school’s pages list different counts for music practice rooms. The Chinese and English pages also disagree — one calls a facility a shooting range, while the other says it is an archery hall. This guide follows the English pages.
Boarding
Boarding starts in Grade 6. The boarding centre uses a two-mentor system for each student. Rooms can fit up to three students, each with its own bathroom, air conditioning, a fresh-air system, and filtered drinking water. Laundry equipment and laundry service are free, and each floor has a shared social space. A health centre provides medical care 24 hours a day. In the high school there are five boarding houses and close to 20 boarding clubs.
The school does not publish boarding fees.
Living in Songshan Lake
Songshan Lake is a national high-tech zone in the middle of Dongguan, bordering the Guangming district of Shenzhen. It is the centre of an electronics industry cluster led by Huawei, and since 2020 it has been part of a national science centre pilot zone with Shenzhen.
The Five Tracks, Explained Plainly
This is the part families find most confusing, and it is confusing in Chinese too. Tsinglan does not run one single programme. It runs five, and two of them overlap in the middle school years. The difference that matters is where each track leads.
| Track | Grades | Main Curriculum | Where It Leads |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | PreK–K (2.5–6) | Montessori Education approach with English themes | Tsinglan primary school |
| Primary | G1–G5 | Chinese national curriculum, with English taught at different levels | Either middle school track |
| International middle | G6–G8 | National curriculum, built to feed the international high school | Tsinglan international high school |
| Bilingual middle | G6–G9 | National curriculum aimed at the zhongkao, plus extra English | Chinese high schools or Tsinglan international high school |
| International high | G9–G12 | IGCSE, then AP or A-Level | Universities outside mainland China |
Zhongkao is the Chinese high school entrance examination, taken at the end of Grade 9.
The two middle school tracks are the real decision point. International middle school runs Grades 6 to 8 and has no zhongkao route. To join the international high school, students must complete a project in Grade 8. They need to do at least three months of research. They also write a paper and give a defence.
Bilingual middle school runs Grades 6 to 9 and keeps both doors open. It follows the Chinese national curriculum for the zhongkao. However, it adds 224 English lessons each year. The school reports that around 70% of its graduates build linguistic competency to CEFR level B1 or B2. At the end of Grade 8, families choose between two options. They can stay for Grade 9 and take the zhongkao for a Chinese high school. Or, they can apply to Tsinglan’s international high school.
青云项目 — The Qingyun Project
This is an A-Level entry route into Grade 9 for strong students who have just taken the zhongkao.
Applicants qualify by meeting one of three standards:
A zhongkao total of 90% or more of the local maximum.
A score of 95% or higher in mathematics, physics, or chemistry.
A score of 95% or more in English, or proof of equivalent English ability.
澜创班 — The Lanchuang Class
This is an innovation class inside the bilingual middle school, opened for Grade 6 from the 2025–2026 school year. The class uses a project-based learning approach. Mathematics and informatics are central subjects. They focus on competition problems. This helps them get ready for contests including the national math league, math olympiads, CSP-J/S, NOIP, and the Lanqiao Cup.
AP or A-Level: How to Choose
In Grades 9 and 10 all international high school students follow the Cambridge IGCSE curriculum. IGCSE stands for International General Certificate of Secondary Education. It is a British-style course for students about 14 to 16 years old. It is used here as a broad base so students can test what they are good at before specialising.
After Grade 10, students choose between AP and A-Level courses based on where they want to apply.
Choose AP if…
AP means Advanced Placement, a set of American college-level courses and exams run by the College Board. Students take AP subjects alongside their high school classes. Their applications depend on grades from all four years, teacher recommendations, activities, essays, and AP scores. This suits families aiming mainly at the United States, or who want to keep a wide range of countries open. Tsinglan is approved by the College Board. Its school code is 694130. You can find the list of approved AP subjects in the College Board’s public AP Course Ledger.
Choose A-Level if…
A-Level is the British route. Students study a small number of subjects — usually three or four — in real depth, and final exam grades carry most of the weight in an application. This is for families aiming at the UK, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, or Canada. It is also for students who know their strengths and prefer to be assessed by exams. The Qingyun Project described above is an A-Level route. Tsinglan works with Cambridge International and lists centre number CX048 on its own school profile.
The Tennis Academy (TSTA)
Tsinglan runs two athletic academies, and this is where the school is genuinely unusual. The school clearly states on its athletics page: “清澜山还有两个关于体育的特色学院：网球学院和击剑学院。这两个学院有单独的招生流程。” This means it has two special academies — tennis and fencing. Each has its own admissions process.
The Tsinglan School Tennis Academy, or TSTA, was founded in 2019. KingLead is a Chinese ranking body. It placed Tsinglan first in China for its 2026 sports characteristic ranking. This shows the school’s strong focus on sports.
The Detail That Matters Most
The school’s 2025–2026 profile says students in the Tennis Academy, Art Academy, or Symphony Orchestra can graduate with only 16 credits. And tennis players may miss 20% to 50% of the school year for competition, as long as they complete their coursework and assessments.
For a family with a serious junior player, that single policy is more important than any facility list. It means competition travel is built into the academic rules, not fought over case by case.
How the Training Is Structured
The academy uses a Spanish pyramid training system. It focuses on four areas: physical conditioning, technique, tactics, and psychology. It also uses the Canadian LTAD framework (Long Term Athlete Development), which develops players by stage, not by age. It includes training methods from American college teams through the ITA — the Intercollegiate Tennis Association. Each student has an OFE file: observing, feedback and evaluation.
Since 2020 the academy has worked with UTR, the Universal Tennis Rating system. The school notes why this matters: UTR is one of the main measures American university coaches use when recruiting tennis players. There is also a long-running link with BTT Tennis Academy in Barcelona, including a summer training trip there in 2024.
Coaches
The published coaching staff is deeper than most school programmes. Chloe Xie (谢舒瑾) is a graduate of Beijing Sport University with about 15 years of coaching experience and a former professional player. She assists in ITF Level 1 coaching courses with the Chinese Tennis Association, is certified by Tennis Canada, and is an international white badge referee. Chloe has officiated at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and Wimbledon qualifying. Others include James Han (韩璞), a former American college player and PTR-certified coach; Zhu Zhicheng (朱志成), who led the 2024 Barcelona trip; and Rasa Radovan Misic, a Serbian coach registered with the ITF who joined in 2020. The academy also has dedicated physical trainers.
Yan Zi (晏紫), whom the school describes as a leading Chinese tennis player, was appointed as an academy advisor.
School Results
The school lists the following results on its athletics pages. It does not give dates for them, so read them as a record of what the programme has achieved rather than as recent news.
Champion, boys’ 14-and-under singles, European Junior Tour (Villena, Spain)
Champion, under-16 singles, Junior Tour (Marca, Spain)
Runner-up, doubles, Hong Kong International Junior ITF J30
Runner-up, men’s doubles, ITF J30 Junior Tour (Alicante, Spain)
Champion, under-14 boys’ singles, China Middle School Tennis League Finals
Champion, under-14 boys’ singles, China Middle School Tennis League, second stop
Four outdoor courts are confirmed. The school does not share details about the court surface, whether courts are floodlit, or whether there are indoor courts. It does not publish weekly training hours or the number of students in the academy, nor a list of graduates recruited to American college teams. If your decision depends on any of those, ask before you apply.
Fencing: The Academy and the New Dual-Excellence Programme
The Tsinglan Fencing Academy teaches fencing to all grades. They use an East-West teaching system. Students can learn in groups of different sizes: one-to-one, one-to-four, or one-to-six. There is a dedicated indoor fencing hall, and the school says its team competes both in China and internationally.
The coaching credentials are strong. The head coach is Marc Bigorra, formerly head coach of the French Youth Fencing Team and of the Zhejiang provincial team. Zhu Shengcao (朱圣操) was previously head coach of the Liaoning provincial youth fencing team. Sun Yuyue (孙雨悦) fenced for the Shandong provincial team and later worked as a technical and conditioning coach in Weifang.
The academy page is lacking. It does not share a founding year, weapon list, or competition results. It shows the Chinese Fencing Association logo but does not explain the connection. We will not describe it further here.
The Academic and Fencing Dual-Excellence Programme
| Who it is for | Students in China and overseas, aged 9 and above |
| Weapon | Épée first. Foil and sabre are planned as the programme grows |
| Training | Three hours a day, Monday to Friday, in the school’s own fencing hall |
| Timetable | The school uses a “one student, one timetable” approach so training fits around lessons |
| Entry requirements | A good academic record, existing formal fencing training, and passing the school’s entrance assessment. Provincial-level competition experience is preferred |
| Fees | Charged separately from tuition. Private lessons, competition entry fees and travel are billed as they occur |
| How to apply | Tick 「击剑x学术双优项目」 on the application form for your child’s division |
Two exit routes are stated. The first uses fencing to strengthen a university application to the United States, United Kingdom, Canada or Hong Kong. The second is athletic recruitment: American NCAA college teams, or top universities in Hong Kong and Macau on a sports pathway.
The Coaching Roster
The technical director is Kang Yan (康雁), a former China national team coach and head coach of the Beijing and Guangdong teams. The head coach is Steven Grams from the United States. He played for the US national team and started in NCAA games. He also has a psychology degree from New York University.
Beyond the daily staff, the school lists a visiting master-class roster assembled with its partner, Yuanjian. It has the head coaches from Princeton, Yale, and the University of Pennsylvania: Zoltan Dudas, Marat Israelian, and Andy Ma. Gennady Tyshler leads the FIE coaching committee. Luan Jujie (栾菊杰) is Asia’s first Olympic fencing gold medallist. Zhao Gang is the head épée coach for China. Olympic champion Li Na and three-time world champion Sergei Golubitsky are also in the group.
Having three Ivy League head fencing coaches on a visiting roster is rare for a school programme. It also fits well with the NCAA recruitment plan.
One honest caveat: this programme begins in autumn 2026, so it has no track record yet. Everything above is what the school has published about its design, not results it has produced. Ask what the fencing fee actually is, since the figure is not published.
University Results
Tsinglan’s first cohort graduated in 2023, so its record is short. It is also growing quickly: 2026 was its largest cohort, and its first with offers from Stanford and the University of Pennsylvania. One point to understand before reading any of these numbers: these are offers, not students. One student can hold ten offers. The school publishes offer counts, not final enrolment figures.
| Cohort | Graduates | Offers | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 (first) | 32 | 180+ | Included Johns Hopkins, Washington University in St. Louis, USC, Imperial College London and UCL. School-reported; no individual source link available. |
| 2024 (second) | 64 | 363 | About RMB 14.2 million in scholarships. 33 offers from US top-30 universities. School-reported; no individual source link available. |
| 2025 (third) | 60 (43 AP, 17 A-Level) | 425 | Full breakdown below. 2 Oxford and 2 Cambridge offers confirmed. |
| 2026 (fourth) | 93 | 532 | As of 19 April 2026. First ever offers from Stanford and the University of Pennsylvania. School-reported; no individual source link available. |
Sources: 2025 cohort figures from the school’s official WeChat account, published 10 June 2025. Oxford and Cambridge offers verified in separate announcements. 2023, 2024 and 2026 figures are school-reported without individual source links.
For the Class of 2025, 84.8% of graduates received offers from top schools — defined as US top-30, UK top-5, Hong Kong top-3, Canada’s top university, Australia’s top-3, or US top-3 art schools. The figure reaches 98% when the range widens to US top-50 and UK top-10.
Universities to Which the Class of 2025 Was Admitted
| Region | Offers |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | UCL 14, Oxford 2, Cambridge 2, Imperial College London 2, LSE 1 |
| United States | UCLA 5, Berkeley 5, Washington University in St. Louis 3, Northwestern 1, Cornell 1, Dartmouth 1, Vanderbilt 1, Carnegie Mellon 1, Michigan 1, Williams 1, Swarthmore 1, Claremont McKenna 1, Harvey Mudd 1, Wesleyan 1 |
| Hong Kong | HKUST 14, HKU 10, CUHK 9, City University 3 |
| Canada and Australia | Toronto 24, UBC 3, McGill 1, Sydney 5, Melbourne 3, ANU 1 |
| Art and design | Pratt 4, RISD 3, Parsons 3, School of Visual Arts 2, School of the Art Institute of Chicago 2, UAL 1 |
| Elsewhere | NTU Singapore 1, Waseda 1, Amsterdam 1, EHL Lausanne 1 |
Where the Class of 2026 Was Admitted
The class of 2026 is the largest so far, with 93 graduates. As of 19 April 2026 they held 532 offers. Two results stand out as firsts for the school: Stanford University and the University of Pennsylvania. The school describes this as its second consecutive year of both Oxbridge and Ivy League success.
United States. Twenty-four offers came from universities ranked in the American top 20, 33 from those ranked 21 to 30, and 162 from those ranked 31 to 50. UC Berkeley and UCLA each made 6 offers, and the University of Southern California made 8. Students at liberal arts colleges received 5 offers from top-20 schools including Swarthmore, Claremont McKenna, and Carleton.
United Kingdom. Oxford made 3 offers and Cambridge 1. Imperial College London made 9 offers, UCL 23, and the London School of Economics 4. This totals 40 offers from the UK’s five most selective universities, the G5. A further 53 offers came from other UK top-10 universities.
Hong Kong and later additions. By 28 May 2026, the school’s homepage listed 20 from HKU, 18 from HKUST, 6 from City University of Hong Kong, 2 from CUHK, 1 from Hong Kong Polytechnic, 14 from UC San Diego, 5 from North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and 2 each from Rice and Virginia.
School-reported figures. 532-offer figure published by the school as of 19 April 2026; May figures from the school’s own homepage. No individual WeChat source link available for the 2026 cohort.
The Final 2026 Picture
At the graduation ceremony on 12 June 2026, the school announced that 85.8% of the class received offers from a US top-30, a global top-30, a Hong Kong top-3, a UK top-5, or a top-5 art school. It put the figure at 96.4% for a US top-40 or global top-50, a UK top-10, or a top-10 art school.
The principal named three standout results for the school: Stanford, the University of Pennsylvania, and Tsinghua University. The last is a domestic Chinese university, not an overseas one — confirming that the domestic route is real, not just theoretical. The school also described offers from all five G5 universities in Britain.
How to read these figures. The 532 total is the school’s own count as of 19 April 2026, published while offers were still arriving, so it is not a final figure. Counts for each university changed throughout the year: in the April summary, Imperial College London had 9 offers; by late May, their homepage showed 8. We give both rather than quietly picking one.
Fees and Scholarships
Tsinglan does not publish a tuition table on its website or its official channels. We checked directly, and we are not going to reprint the figures that circulate on agency websites, because none of them can be traced to the school.
It does publish its scholarship scheme in detail, and that is worth understanding before you apply.
The Tsinglan Scholarship
The school describes the scheme as open to all outstanding applicants. Current Tsinglan students who meet the criteria are welcome to apply as well. Awards are given as a credit against each academic year’s tuition.
There are five named types:
High School Scholarship
Bilingual School Scholarship
High School Entrance Examination Scholarship — for students arriving through the zhongkao
Arts Scholarship
Sports Scholarship
The school states that both academic achievement and talent qualify, and it names music, art, sports and technology. A strong young tennis player or fencer applies for the Sports Scholarship rather than applying for a separate programme award.
How much they are worth
Awards run from 10% to 100% of tuition. The highest award covers 100% of tuition plus accommodation, including meals. Applications are assessed by the school’s Scholarship Committee, which also interprets the rules.
What this does and does not tell you
The awards are expressed as percentages of tuition, not as sums of money. A full award is extremely valuable, but the scheme cannot be used to work out what tuition actually is. You still have to ask the school for the fee schedule. Be wary of any guide that claims to know Tsinglan’s fees — we could not find them published anywhere official.
Costs to Ask About
Before you commit, ask the admissions office for this in writing: annual tuition for your child’s grade; application and assessment fees; deposit details and refund policy; costs of meals, uniforms, and school bus; textbooks and materials; insurance and AP or A-Level exam fees; boarding costs; and extra charges for the tennis or fencing academies. The academies’ training fees in particular are not published anywhere.
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Teachers and Accreditation
The 2025–2026 School Profile gives about 2,022 students, 527 of them in the high school, and 121 international teachers. Average class size is 20 to 24, although the school’s careers pages give the homeroom range as 20 to 23. Of the teaching staff, 12% hold doctorates, 90% hold a master’s degree or higher, and more than 85% have studied or worked outside China. Staff come from around 20 countries, though the exact figure the school quotes changes from year to year.
About That 1:5 Ratio
The school advertises a student-teacher ratio of 1:5, and this is worth explaining because it is easy to misread.
In November 2024 the school published both halves of the calculation in one sentence: about 1,930 students and about 430 staff. That works out at roughly 1:4.5, which fits the claim. It only works if the denominator includes all employees — teachers, administrators, boarding staff, catering, and support staff. It cannot just count classroom teachers. The school does not publish a separate teaching headcount.
The 1:5 ratio is accurate as the school states it. It is a whole-staff ratio, not a class ratio. Your child’s class size is 20 to 24.
Accreditation and Codes
| Body | Status | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| WASC | Accredited, 2024–2029 | PreK–12, code 62 42238 999. Confirmed in the WASC public school directory |
| Cognia | Accredited since June 2021 | Listed in the Cognia registry. The register shows grades up to Grade 10 |
| College Board (AP) | Authorised | School code 694130, listed on the AP Course Ledger |
| Cambridge International | Works with Cambridge | Centre CX048, from the school’s own profile. Could not be confirmed in Cambridge’s own database |
| NESSIC | Member | Welcomed as a new member in July 2026. Listed in the NESSIC school directory. |
The school received Cognia accreditation in 2021 and WASC accreditation in 2024. Some sources describe Tsinglan as a UCAS member. This status could not be verified with UCAS, so it has been omitted.
External Rankings (KingLead 2026)
KingLead (京领), a Chinese school ranking body, rates Tsinglan AAAAA and places it as follows on its 2026 lists:
| Category | Placing |
|---|---|
| Sports characteristic | 1st in China |
| Humanities | 4th |
| Arts | 7th |
| Research | 93rd |
| Innovation competitiveness (private schools) | 4th |
| Monthly rating (July 2026) | 2nd |
| American curriculum route | 18th |
| British curriculum route | 16th |
| Hong Kong route | 13th |
We include the weaker research placing alongside the strong ones so you can see the full picture rather than a selection.
Admissions: What Is Published and What You Must Ask
As of August 2026, applications for the 2026–2027 school year are open. Entry is possible at kindergarten, Grades 1 to 5, either middle school track, and Grades 9 to 12.
Every applicant must pass the school’s entrance assessment (入学评估). Beyond that sentence, Tsinglan publishes very little, and this is the most significant gap for overseas families. No official source lists the test subjects, format, language, or duration. The school keeps details hidden. They don’t share the interview structure. Deadlines, assessment dates, seat availability, required documents, and waitlist policy are also not provided.
Detailed descriptions of the entrance test do circulate on agency websites. We have not used them, and we would treat them with caution.
Two Questions Overseas Families Should Ask First
Consider your nationality and household registration. The school has students from more than 10 nationalities. It does not share details about nationality or hukou — the Chinese household registration system — for each track. Because the bilingual middle school is built around the zhongkao, it is designed for local families. Ask which specific tracks are open to a child holding a foreign passport before you apply anywhere else in the process.
Language support. This is the clearest gap we found. Tsinglan publishes no Chinese-as-a-second-language programme for students who arrive without Chinese. It does offer English support, but this is a different thing.
Options include:
How Tsinglan Compares in the Greater Bay Area
Tsinglan competes with a strong group of schools in Shenzhen and Guangzhou, both roughly an hour away.
| School | City | Main Offer |
|---|---|---|
| Shenzhen College of International Education (SCIE) | Shenzhen | IGCSE, A-Level and AP, plus an arts division |
| Vanke Meisha Academy | Shenzhen | AP and Post-AP with 25 AP courses, plus IGCSE and A-Level |
| Merchiston International School Shenzhen | Shenzhen | English national curriculum through to A-Level, two campuses |
| Huitong School Studios (formerly Whittle) | Shenzhen | Its own East-West curriculum with 200+ studio courses |
| Canadian Foreign Language School Cambridgeshire (加拿达外国语学校) | Guangzhou (Panyu) | Chinese national curriculum with IB PYP and MYP, and a dual international / zhongkao track |
| Utahloy International School Guangzhou (UISG) | Guangzhou | Full IB continuum plus a DSE programme |
Tsinglan stands out for several reasons. First, it has a smooth PreK-to-Grade-12 pathway. Second, it offers both AP and A-Level courses. Third, there is a real domestic zhongkao route alongside the international one. Fourth, Tsinglan has two athletic academies with separate admissions. Lastly, it has connections to Huawei and Tsinghua High School. The trade-off is location. Dongguan has fewer established services for international families than central Shenzhen or Guangzhou.
Getting There
Songshan Lake is more accessible than its Dongguan address suggests. Dongguan Metro Line 1 opened in November 2025. The nearest station, Songshan Lake, is about 1.3 kilometres from the campus — roughly an 18-minute walk.
| From | By Car | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Central Shenzhen (Futian) | About 1 hour | 62 km |
| Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport | About 1 hour | 59 km |
| Central Guangzhou (Tianhe) | About 1 hour 15 minutes | 79 km |
| Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport | About 1 hour 25 minutes | 109 km |
| Humen high-speed rail station | About 33 minutes | 27 km |
| Songshan Lake North intercity station | About 5 minutes | 1.4 km |
From Hong Kong, the fastest route is high-speed rail from West Kowloon to Humen, which takes about 48 minutes, then about 33 minutes by road. Allow around two hours door to door. Driving times above are map estimates and will vary with traffic.
The school does not publish school bus routes. If you will depend on one, confirm the route and the cost with admissions.
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