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Guangdong Country Garden School

China, Guangzhou

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The school at a glance
Instructs in English, Mandarin
Fees RMB 173,920 - 176,350
Ages 6 - 18 years
Pupil numbers 4800
Type Co-educational (boarding)
Opened 1994
Bus Service No
Academic offering
Curriculum IB (PYP), IB (MYP), IB (DP), Cambridge IGCSE, Cambridge A Levels, Advanced Placement (AP), Chinese National Curriculum
Taught languages English, Mandarin
Strengths STEM, Performing Arts, Service and Sustainability
Clubs Academic and Intellectual, Arts and Creative, Community and Service
Stages Kindergarten, Primary School, Middle School, High School
Introduction

Guangdong Country Garden School (GCGS) is a K–12 residential private school located inside the Country Garden community in Beijiao (Beijiao Town), Shunde District, Foshan. The school was founded in 1994 and currently enrolls around 4,500 students; the campus covers roughly 200,000 m² and includes multiple sports courts, two indoor heated pools, a 2,400 m² sports hall, specialist music and art rooms, libraries for each section, a STEAM centre, an “English Village” and an on‑site agricultural labour base (星月田园). GCGS operates Chinese national curricula alongside six international programmes (PYP, MYP, DP, IGCSE, A‑level, AP) and offers both day and full‑boarding options. Distinctive whole‑school activities noted on the site include multi‑stage experiential trips such as the school's long‑distance cycling and “行知” service projects. (Founding year, campus size and student numbers; curriculum and facilities as listed on the school website.)

Country Garden Community, Beijiao Town, Shunde District, Foshan City, Guangdong Province

The Essentials

Guangdong Country Garden School has 4,800 pupils, instruction in English, Mandarin.

Location
Guangdong Country Garden School (广东碧桂园学校) is in Beijiao Town, Shunde District, Foshan City — in the Pearl River Delta just south of Guangzhou. The campus sits inside the Country Garden residential area and is accessible to major transport links in the region; it is commonly referenced as being within easy reach of Guangzhou and the Greater Bay Area transport network.

Stages
The school is a continuous K–12 (kindergarten through senior high) provision covering roughly ages 2–18 and describes itself as a 15-year one-stream school. It runs international routes (IB PYP, MYP, DP) alongside other international programmes (IGCSE/A-level/AP) and a bilingual Chinese stream.

Type
Guangdong Country Garden School is a private, co-educational school with a long-standing boarding programme (whole‑school boarding is reported in public profiles). Campus size and student numbers are large for the region (several thousand students on site).

Additional learning support
Public information highlights on‑campus student services such as a dedicated international-student unit (留学生部) and counselling/psychological support; the school also reports 24‑hour dorm staff for boarding life. There is limited publicly available detail online about formal SEN (special educational needs) pathways, so families with specific additional‑learning needs should contact admissions to discuss individual provision and assessments.

Country affiliation
The school is a Chinese private school (广东) and is not presented as being affiliated to another country; it is associated with the Country Garden education initiative and is referenced in relation to Bright Scholar / Country Garden group coverage.

Religious affiliation
There is no public indication that the school has a religious affiliation; it is described in official and third‑party profiles as a non‑religious private boarding school.

School day structure
The school operates as a full boarding campus with on‑site supervision and organised student routines; public profiles note 24‑hour dorm staff and closed‑campus management for boarders. Exact daily start/end times, break and meal schedules are not published in detail on third‑party sites, so expect times to vary by age group and contact the school directly for current timetables.

Bus service
The school publishes a large school‑bus network covering many pickup points across the Pearl River Delta; one profile notes 103 pickup points that extend across the region (including routes serving Hong Kong). For families relocating from overseas, this indicates established regional transport links, but specific pickup locations, costs and eligibility should be confirmed with the school's admissions or transport office.
Diving Deeper

Boarding Arrangements
The school provides on-campus housing. Boarding per term costs 2,175 yuan for Grade 1 and 1,960 yuan per term for Grade 7.

Uniform Requirement
Middle school students can purchase uniforms in the school uniform shop using their student card. Primary students' uniforms are purchased by parents with the school pickup card at the school uniform shop.

Food Options
There is a canteen on campus. Students can use their student cards to dine in the cafeteria. The per-term meal fee for new admissions includes 5,000 yuan for meals (as part of the first-term breakdown).

Governance and Ownership
The school is governed and owned by the Country Garden Education Group.
Fees

Annual tuition at Guangdong Country Garden School ranges from RMB 173,920 to RMB 176,350 for 2026/27.

Application fee
- No separate application or admission fee amount is published in the school's publicly available admissions pages or standard fee summaries; the school's admissions portal and public pages do not list a standalone “application fee.”

Tuition fees (per term and per year)
- Kindergarten: RMB 60,000 per term — equals RMB 120,000 per academic year (two terms).
- Primary (elementary): RMB 78,000 per term — equals RMB 156,000 per academic year.
- Junior high (grades 7–9): RMB 80,000 per term — equals RMB 160,000 per academic year.
- Senior high, international curriculum (IB/IGCSE/A‑Level/AP): RMB 90,000–RMB 110,000 per term — equals RMB 180,000–RMB 220,000 per academic year.
- Senior high, general/regular (普高) pathway: RMB 37,500 per term — equals RMB 75,000 per academic year.
These per‑term figures are reported in the school's current fee summaries and reputable international-school listings; different public sources show the same amounts as per‑term charges.

Billing schedule and payment terms
- Tuition is billed on a per‑term (学期) basis in the school's public fee notices and associated school fee summaries; the school follows per‑term charging for K–12 grade bands. Provincial rules allow charges by term or by year and set timing and refund calculation rules.

Boarding / accommodation fees
- Typical boarding fees reported: RMB 1,500 per term for Chinese students and RMB 3,500 per term for overseas/overseas‑status students (amounts for rooms and services vary by room type). Annual boarding totals will be per‑term multiplied by the number of terms paid. Alternative listings show smaller annual accommodation entries for particular grades in aggregate fee tables.

Other costs
- Meals, uniforms, textbooks, exam/registration fees and certain activity/service charges are additional and charged separately. Example: meal charges appear in some published breakdowns at roughly RMB 5,000 per year (varies by grade and plan). Specific extras (uniforms, instrument hire, international exam fees) are billed as incurred.

Refund information
- Refunds and fee clearing follow Guangdong provincial rules for private/municipal schools: schools must refund unused fees within the regulatory timeframes; new registrants who pay but do not enrol are eligible for major refunds (rules specify scaled refund percentages and formulae for term/year‑based charges). These provincial rules apply to fee return calculations and timelines.

Fee payment options
- The school's higher‑education/continuing‑education notices require online payment through the school's payment portal and permit bank transfer; K–12 public listings do not publish a definitive list of accepted consumer payment methods. In practice for Guangdong schools this commonly includes bank transfer and school online payment platforms (WeChat/Alipay integration is commonly used by peer institutions), while explicit credit‑card acceptance is not publicly specified.
Academics

Guangdong Country Garden School teaches IB (PYP), IB (MYP), IB (DP), Cambridge IGCSE, Cambridge A Levels, Advanced Placement (AP), Chinese National Curriculum for students aged 6 to 18.

Curriculum
Guangdong Country Garden School operates a 15‑year integrated curriculum that combines the Chinese national syllabus with major international programmes (IB PYP/MYP/DP, Cambridge IGCSE/A‑Level and AP), providing flexible pathways from kindergarten through Grade 12. Early years and primary education use the IB Primary Years Programme (PYP) alongside the national primary curriculum (PYP typically through primary Year 5). The middle‑school phase implements the IB Middle Years Programme (MYP) while meeting national junior‑middle requirements (generally Grades 6–10). In senior secondary, the school runs Cambridge IGCSE in Years 9–10 and offers multiple Year 11–12 options including the IB Diploma Programme (DP), A‑Level, AP or the national senior high track. The whole‑school curriculum is organised into integrated strands—融通课程 (academic integration), 行知课程 (inquiry/leadership), STEAM, arts, physical education and life education—framed around core competencies of cultural foundation, self‑development and social participation.
Wellbeing

Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)
The school's published mission and development goals emphasise whole‑person development, wellbeing, community and life education as part of its curriculum framework. Its curriculum pages list “Life Education” and experiential/leadership programmes (行知课程/CAS‑style activities) intended to develop social and emotional skills. The school also states it seeks to “build an open, harmonious and friendly learning community” and to promote members' wellbeing. The site further notes a dedicated safety and mental‑health education centre that intervenes across teaching and student life.

Special Educational Needs (SEN)
The school's public materials state a commitment to respecting student differences and attending to individual needs, but do not publish detailed information about formal Special Educational Needs (SEN) provision, specific types of needs supported, specialist staff or whether it operates as a specialist SEN institution. There is no SEN policy or SEN coordinator role described on the pages reviewed. Therefore, the school does not publicly disclose specifics about SEN provision.

English as an Additional Language (EAL)
The school publishes a Language Development Centre and a large international teaching team, and it operates a ‘留学生部' that provides Mandarin (Chinese as a foreign language) for international students. These elements indicate institutional language support and international staffing, but the website does not set out a named English‑as‑an‑Additional‑Language (EAL) programme, EAL curriculum, or specialist EAL staff details. In short, the school does not publicly disclose specific EAL programme information.

Mental Wellbeing
The school states it has established a Safety and Mental‑Health Education Centre that is intended to be deeply involved in the whole teaching process to safeguard students' psychological environment. The published materials describe the centre as part of the school's measures to ensure students' healthy, happy development, but the site does not publish detailed staffing numbers, counselling services, or session formats. The school's ethos pages also emphasise promoting members' wellbeing as part of its school culture.

Safeguarding
The website presents concrete safety measures such as student ID cards with controlled campus access and a parent notification system (校讯通) linked to those cards, indicating operational steps for everyday campus security. The school also names a Safety and Mental‑Health Education Centre and repeatedly refers to providing a safe learning environment in its published mission statements. However, the site does not publish a standalone child‑protection or safeguarding policy (for example, a designated safeguarding lead, reporting procedures, or external safeguarding contacts) on the pages reviewed.
Parent Experience

History
Guangdong Country Garden School was established in 1994; construction began in the early 1990s and the school opened to students later that year. It was set up as part of the Country Garden community development and has been described in several profiles as founded by the local Country Garden investment entity. Over the 2000s the school added international curricula stepwise (the IB Diploma in 2001 and later IGCSE/A‑Level programmes). The school has also been referenced in filings and profiles that note an operational relationship with larger education groups (for example, Bright Scholar/BGY-related entities).

Community
The campus is a boarding-style school with several thousand students and several hundred staff; public profiles list roughly 3,500–4,000+ students and multiple hundred faculty. The site and school descriptions highlight a range of on‑campus cultural and learning facilities—an observatory, performing‑arts spaces, pottery and maker facilities and small museums—that support arts, science and community activities. The school runs regular public events such as scheduled open days and family/visitor tours alongside termly cultural and sports activities that bring students, parents and local community members together.

Parent Teacher Association (PTA)
The school organizes parent participation through multi‑level family committees (school‑level, division/department, grade and class levels) and maintains dedicated offices to support parent representatives and alumni engagement. These family‑committee structures are used to coordinate parent meetings, volunteer support, in‑school classroom visits and joint home‑school initiatives. School communications and news items describe regular school‑level and division‑level family‑committee meetings that review topics such as student welfare, dining services and activity planning. The committees also help recruit and nominate parent representatives each year and act as a bridge for parent feedback into school planning. Specific reports from the school describe this ‘‘four‑level family committee + two offices'' arrangement and show the committees taking part in program‑level events and operational working groups.
Facilities

Facilities Overview
The Guangdong Bright Scholar School is located in Beijiao Town, Shunde District, Foshan, inside the Bright Garden community. The campus covers nearly 200,000 square meters. Teaching buildings, an experimental building, a Youth Palace, and an opera house are arranged around Star Moon Hill, in a setting described as beautiful with first‑class facilities. It is designated as a Guangdong Province First‑Class School and as a Guangdong Green School.

Sports Facilities
The campus has a 400‑meter and a 200‑meter plastic running track. There are standard PU basketball courts, volleyball courts, and badminton courts with a combined area of about 20,000 square meters. A 2,400 square meter comprehensive gymnasium serves indoor activities, and two indoor heated swimming pools (25 by 50 meters and 25 by 10 meters) are available.

Academic Facilities
Academic facilities include teaching buildings and an experimental building, plus a dedicated laboratory building. The school provides a library and a digital library platform that enables library information search and access to digital resources via partnership networks and national/local library resources.

Extra Curricular Facilities
The high school division runs five international programs—IGCSE/A‑level, IB (MYP/DP), AP, and domestic tracks including Gaokao, Art Gaokao, and Hong Kong/Macau/Taiwan/overseas student admissions—encompassing more than 200 elective subjects. The school develops a series of Xingzhi courses, including Belt and Road Silk Road cycling (14 days from Xi'an to Urumqi, about 3,000 km with 600 km of cycling) and World Cultural Heritage cycling through the Netherlands/Belgium/France, plus rural service and community projects. Additional activities include China Week with activities across many provinces, social practice, and an International Youth Achievement Award program. Graduates have gained admission to top universities worldwide, with sustained high results in recent years, and a strong emphasis on well‑rounded development through clubs, competitions, and service. These programs and activities are supported by a large, experienced faculty and a long‑standing focus on holistic student growth.
Reputation

Accreditations
- International Baccalaureate (IB) — Authorized to deliver the three IB programmes: MYP and DP (authorized in 2001) and PYP (authorized in 2011). Significance: IB authorization means the school met the International Baccalaureate Organization's standards and is permitted to deliver these internationally recognised curricula and assessments.

- Cambridge International (IGCSE / A‑Level) — IGCSE and A‑Level programmes authorized (school reports initial authorization in 2007) and listed as a regional Cambridge partner/executive committee member in subsequent years. Significance: Cambridge authorization allows the school to deliver Cambridge examinations and follow Cambridge curricula for secondary education.

- Advanced Placement (AP) / AP Capstone — AP program authorization (2014) and AP Capstone authorization (2018). Significance: College Board authorization permits the school to offer AP courses and the AP Capstone diploma, which are widely recognised by U.S. and other universities.

- Education Ministry / research designations — The school is described on its site as an Education Ministry (基础教育) course‑reform research base / experimental site for the school's “中外融通课程” research (the project is reported as having been accepted by the Education Ministry's curriculum centre). Significance: this indicates the school is participating in nationally‑recognised curriculum research or pilot work.

- STEAM / Maker (创客) experimental school (Education Ministry) and municipal demonstration designation for labour education — The site states the school is an Education Ministry STEAM/创客教育 experimental school and a 佛山市劳动教育示范学校. Significance: these are official designations indicating the school is a designated pilot or demonstration site for those education initiatives at national/municipal level. (Date of designation is not shown on the site.)

- Provincial recognitions — The school's basic information page lists it as a 广东省一级学校 and 广东省绿色学校. Significance: these are provincial‑level recognitions for school quality and environmental/green campus standards. (The site does not attach a specific award date on that page.)

- Kindergarten / early‑years recognitions — The kindergarten pages state the kindergarten has been listed as 全国优秀民办幼儿园, 广东省首届“十佳民办幼儿园”, 广东省一级幼儿园, included in the Education Ministry's “中国名园之旅/培训基地” and identified historically as part of an Education Ministry '15'重点课题 (幼儿双语教育) experimental project. Significance: these are institutional recognitions and project designations for the school's early‑years programme.
Admissions

Admissions
1. Prepare and attend an Open Day / initial enquiry. Guangdong Country Garden School runs regular open‑day sessions and campus visits for prospective families; in recent years these were advertised in the spring (for example the 2025 spring open day schedule was published). Parents should bring the child (where possible) to sit in on a sample lesson, ask to see boarding and health facilities, and confirm whether the place they intend to apply for is part of the school's municipal (compulsory‑education) intake or the school's international/fee‑paying programme.

2. Register online / submit initial application. For compulsory‑education grades the school normally requires families to register on the local municipal admissions platform within the published city window; for international or private tracks the school publishes its own application form and timetable. Parents should be ready to upload or present identity documents (child's birth certificate, family ID/hukou or residence permit, copies of recent school reports, and parents' contact/residence evidence) and to note the registration deadlines—the municipal window is strictly timed and late online registrations are usually not accepted.

3. Assessment: written tests, interviews and language checks. After registration, applicants for initial entry (especially into junior and senior secondary international streams) are typically asked to attend a school assessment day that includes a short written test (math/Chinese/English depending on grade), a one‑to‑one or small‑group interview, and a language screening for non‑native English applicants. Parents should prepare the child for short subject tests, bring previous school reports/certificates, and expect a separate interview or meeting for parents where school expectations, boarding rules and fee schedules are explained.

4. Offer, acceptance and deposit. Successful applicants are issued a conditional or unconditional offer; schools usually require families to sign an enrolment agreement and pay a deposit or first term fees to secure the place by a stated deadline. Make sure you obtain a written offer showing the exact programme (e.g., national curriculum vs. IB/IGCSE/AP track), the amount and deadline for any deposit, what the deposit covers (tuition vs. holding fee), and the refund conditions if you later decide not to enrol.

5. Complete enrolment: paperwork, medical & boarding arrangements. Before the start of term parents must submit final documentation (originals of identity documents, recent health/medical certificates, vaccination records where required), complete fee payment as agreed, and confirm boarding, transport and meal arrangements if relevant. Expect the school to request a student health check and to confirm dormitory allocation and wardrobe/uniform lists during this stage.

6. If you are not offered a place: next steps and reapplication. If a child is not initially admitted, families can ask whether the school maintains an internal waiting list or whether they should register for the municipal “补录/征集志愿” (supplementary enrolment) process that runs after first offers are accepted. Parents should keep copies of all application materials, check deadlines for supplementary rounds, and enquire with the admissions office about chances for mid‑year entry or transfer (“插班”) into the grade if places open.

Waitlist
Guangdong Country Garden School's intake process differs by programme: for municipal (compulsory) grades the citywide admissions platform handles the main offers and any subsequent ‘补录' or ‘征集志愿' (supplementary rounds) when places are vacated; families must follow the municipal timetable and rules for those rounds. For the school's international/fee‑paying tracks the school commonly operates its own screening, maintains waiting lists for oversubscribed grades, and admits students on a rolling or “插班” basis when vacancies occur. Public, year‑to‑year details about waitlist ranking, application retention period, or whether the school publishes a ranked waiting list are not routinely published on third‑party listings; parents should ask the admissions office directly for the current policy, how the school notifies waitlisted families, and any deadlines to accept/decline an offer during the supplementary rounds.
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