Western International School of Shanghai (WISS)

The Western International School of Shanghai (WISS) has been educating young people from across the globe in a caring and inspirational environment since 2006. Working with students from the age of 3 to 18, we have 28 different nationalities exploring challenging aspects of the world around us and experiencing the joys of inquiry-based learning.

As an IB World School, WISS is uniquely placed to promote new perspectives and broaden the minds of the children in our care, and deepen their sense of understanding and wonder. WISS prizes communication, holistic learning and intercultural awareness and is the perfect place for truly international families who are bringing up their children to be global citizens.

The WISS website is a useful place to find out more about the vision of our school community as well as the practical aspects of what we do. When you browse through these pages, you will feel the strong student centered focus of WISS and that is a huge part of our identity as a forward-looking school dedicated to helping our young people be their best selves. In their time with us, students of all ages will be intrigued, inspired, challenged, and truly cared for; respected for who they are as individuals. Students who join us will come to school excited each day, motivated to question, to grow, to solve problems, to collaborate, to communicate, and as they mature to take a greater responsibility for their own learning.  

WISS is a heady blend of nationalities, cultures and ethnicities, all eager to contribute to the life of our school. We are not set apart from the local community in Shanghai, but are a part of it. Our community service programmes enable our young people to help others and by doing so acquire a greater understanding of what it means to be a support and an inspiration to those around us. Whether our students are with us for a year or two, or stay through to graduation and move on to the university of their dreams, we want our young people to look back on WISS as a time when their love to learn was awakened and they began to touch the lives of those around them.