School Profile 2016-2017CEEB CODE: 694302

No.287 Hegezhuang Village, Cuigezhuang County, Chaoyang District, Beijing(86-10) 6444 8900www.harrowbeijing.cn

Harrow Beijing is a vibrant community affiliated to the renowned Harrow School in London and Harrow International Schools in Bangkok, Hong Kong and Shanghai. It offers a British-based international education to students aged from two to eighteen.

The school is known for its commitment to academic excellence and for the way each student is supported through personal tutoring. Our mission statement of, ‘Leadership for a better world’ is supported through the skills students develop by studying our wide and varied curriculum and further evidenced through our co-curricular enrichment programmes.

Initially, the School opened to serve the needs of older students from the international community in Beijing, to forge positive progression routes into top universities worldwide. The school has now developed into an ‘all through’ school which focusses on developing students with the necessary skills and attributes to allow them to be life-long learners and to take ownership of their progress from the Lower School through to the Upper School. The transition between the phases is supported by our strong pastoral and academic guidance. Students in the Upper School work toward earning a Harrow Beijing Leadership Award that identifies individual achievements and leadership qualities additional to academic performance. English language support services are available for students who are working in English as an Additional Language.

Currently there are nearly 900 students of 34 different nationalities, attending the School. The A-level programme is globally accepted, with 74 students enrolled in the two-year programme during the 2016-17 academic year, 39 of whom are in the leaving class. Students from Harrow Beijing command places in top world universities, particularly in the United Kingdom and North America.

School and Community

The Upper School curriculum is structured towards the external awards of IGCSE, AS and A-level, the standard used in England and Wales that has also been adopted in other countries. Students who enter the School and need EAL, known at Harrow Beijing as Language & Learning, will start in our English Intensive Curriculum in order to progress to the AS curriculum. The A-level is fully recognised by universities worldwide for matriculation.

Curriculum

The School runs a calendar of three terms spanning one hundred and eighty days with a timetable structured around a thirty period week and extra-curricular activities running after school and into the weekends.

Calendar

Students participate in a wide selection of Enrichment Activities of their choice, as well as a large variety of sports including the ISAC, ACAMIS and FOBISIA tournaments. Intra-house competitions in debate, singing, charity fund-raising events as well as specific community service projects are also the focus of the School’s six houses in which each student is a member. Through this wide range of activities students have the opportunity to complete the Harrow Leadership Award.

Extra Curricular Programmes

The school moved into its new purpose-built state-of-the-art campus in April 2013, where there is the capacity to grow to 1200 students. In addition to the usual classroom facilities, there is a 20,000-sqm library, a large multi-purpose Theatre, two ‘black box’ drama areas and a music centre with a recording studio. The sports facilities include a 25m swimming pool, a 2,220sqm gymnasium for sports such as badminton, volleyball and basketball as well as a top-rope climbing wall. Outdoors we have tennis courts, as well as playing fields for football and rugby.

Harrow Beijing has an enviable reputation of preparing students academically for the best universities in the world. Through our extensive pastoral care system and close personal tutoring we are able to support students in their preparation for life beyond Harrow Beijing in an English University or an American College. There is also the opportunity for some students to take up a residential position within either a boys or girls house. As a residential student they will experience the independence of living away from home within the supportive environment of the Harrow community. Harrow students experience a high level of support and guidance during their time at the school which will allow them to build the independent life skills that will stand them in good stead for life beyond Harrow Beijing.

The Campus

College Advisor: Hamilton Gregg: hgregg@harrowbeijing.cn

Head of Upper SchoolCarlien Shelley: cshelley@harrowbeijing.cn

Head Master: David Shinkfielddshinkfield@harrowbeijing.cn

Deputy Head of School: Lynne Oldfieldloldfield@harrowbeijing.cn

Director of Admissions and Marketing:Rohan Karaadmissions@harrowbeijing.cn

Boston CollegeBoston University (3)California Institute of the Arts (2)University of California, BerkeleyUniversity of California, Davis (7)University of California, Irvine (4)University of California, Los Angeles (3)University of California, San Diego (3)University of California, Santa BarbaraUniversity of California, Santa Cruz (3)Cleveland Institute of ArtUniversity of Connecticut (2)Davidson CollegeDenison UniversityDrexel UniversityEmory UniversityFordham University - Lincoln Center Campus/Rose Hill CampusThe George Washington UniversityGeorgetown UniversityUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignIthaca CollegeJohnson & Wales University (Providence)Marist CollegeUniversity of Massachusetts, Amherst

Michigan State UniversityUniversity of Nevada, Las VegasNew York UniversityNortheastern University (4)Northwestern University (2)University of Notre DameOberlin College of Arts and SciencesPennsylvania State University (2)Pratt Institute (2)Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteRhode Island School of DesignRhodes CollegeRochester Institute of TechnologyRutgers University-New Brunswick (2)University of San FranciscoSchool of the Art Institute of Chicago (2)School of Visual Arts (2)University of Southern California (2)State University of New York at New PaltzSyracuse UniversityParsons The New School University of VermontUniversity of WashingtonWesleyan UniversityWheaton College MAWorcester Polytechnic Institute

The Hong Kong University of Science & TechnologyMcGill University (2)Simon Fraser UniversityUniversity of Toronto (2)Vancouver Community College, City CentreUniversity of British Columbia (3)UNSW Australia

University Offers 2016

Universities in the United Kingdom

Colleges and Universities in North America

Other Universities

Russell Group universitiesOxford University (2)University College London (4)Imperial College London (3)The University of Edinburg (1)King’s College London (1)The University of Manchester (1)London School of Economics and Political Science (2)University of Bristol (1)Queen Mary University of London (2017 entry) (2)University of York (1)

Other universitiesUniversity of Bath (1)University of Reading (1)City University of London (1)

As a procedure, we allow only a total of 10 applications to non-UK universities. This provides the opportunity for students to focus their applications on targeted schools.

Harrow Beijing only reports final marks earned on IGCSE, AS Level examinations along with A-level Predicted Scores on the transcript. We do not report GPA. We do not rank our students. In the Upper Sixth Form we typically limit the number of A-levels to 3 for the purpose of quality and focus.

A-levelA* - A 44% A* - B 73% A* - C 90%

AS LevelA 32%A - B 53%A - C 65%

Harrow Beijing Exam Results 2016

A-level Grading ScalesA*, A, B, C, D, E and UE = Pass and U = Fail

AS Level Grading ScalesA, B, C, D, E and U E = Pass and U = Fail

UK A-level Results on Average in 2015

A* - A 25.8% A* - B 53% A* - C 78%

SAT Subject Test Scores

Section Middle 50% Mean Students

Chemistry 700 - 700 700 1

Math Level II 750 - 750 750 1

U.S. History 600 - 600 600 1

SAT Summary 2400

ACT Summary (taken before Oct 2015)

Section Middle 50% Mean Students

Critical Reading 530 - 670 650Math 700 - 720 716Writing 560 - 700 652Total 1810 - 2040 2018 5

Section Middle 50% Mean Students

English 22 - 28 26.4Math 28 - 35 33Reading 17 - 26 23.2Science Reasoning 25 - 29 29.2Composite 23 - 31 28 5

Section Middle 50% Mean Students

Evidence Based Reading and Writing

560 - 560 560

Mathematics 680 - 680 680Total 1240 - 1240 1240 1

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