Shanghai Shixi High School
| Shanghai Shixi High School | |
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| Address | |
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404 Yuyuan Road, Jing'an District Shanghai, 200040 China | |
| Information | |
| School type | Public High School |
| Motto | "好学力行" (Chinese);Doctrina et Labore(Latin) |
| Established | 1869 |
| Authority | Bureau of Education of Jing'an District |
| Principal | Junwu Dong (2012-) |
| Grades | 3 |
| Gender | Coeducatioanl |
| Average class size | 30-40 |
| Language | Chinese |
| Campus size | 0.6km^2 (0.23 mi^2) |
| Campus type | Urban |
| Color(s) | Shixi Blue |
| Newspaper | Shixi Pilot |
| Website | http://www.shixi.edu.sh.cn/ |
Shanghai Shixi High School or "Shanghai Shixi Middle School " (Chinese: 上海市市西中学; literally: "High School of Western Shanghai") is a public high school located in the Jing'an District of Shanghai, China.
Brief Introduction
Shanghai Shixi High School was one of the first demonstration high schools certified by the Shanghai municipal authorities. Originally founded in 1869, the school changed its name to "Shixi High School" in 1946. In 1953 it was nominated as one of the first key schools in Shanghai.
The imcumbent principal of Shanghai Shixi High School, Mr.Dong Junwu(Chinese:董君武), graduated from East China Normal University with a master degree in Mathematicis. The school has a teaching team of 5 professional special grade teachers and 78 Middle special grade teachers. Its research groups, including Chinese, Mathematics, English and Physics, have enjoyed high reputation in Jing'an District. It is also honored as the "Municipal Experimental School on Biology and Life Science Courses".
As a partly boarding school, Shanghai Shixi High School enrolls outstanding junior school students and some students of music or sports talent for their further growth and development. Meanwhile, Shixi Middle School actively participates in some international academic research programs such as "Project Healthy Youth" organized by UNESCO. It has also established relationships with schools in Germany, UK, Australia, Japan and Hong Kong, etc.
Partner schools include Dartford Grammar School (England) and St. Peters College (Australia).
In February 2005, eight Chinese students and two staff from the school visited England for 11 days and spent the majority of their time at St. Mary's Catholic High School, Menston.[1] Since 2009 they have also partaken in exchange programs with St Peters College.
In recent years significant achievements by the students from Shanghai Shixi High School have been witnessed in the national university entrance examination. Students have won more than 100 medals in various kinds of municipal, national and international competitions.
Prestigious graduates of Shanghai Shixi High School were admitted to world famous universities; namely, Tsinghua University, Peking University, Fudan University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Cambridge University, Rice University, Cornell University, Washington University in St. Louis, Rice University, University of Notre Dame, UC Berkeley, NYU, University of Melbourne and Waseda University.
Coordinates: 31°13′23″N 121°26′24″E / 31.223°N 121.440°E
History
1869-1946
The origin of Shanghai Shixi High School can be traced back to the "Eurasia School"(Chinese:欧亚侨童学校）founded by Madam Bonney in 1869, an coeducational secondary school serving the orphans of both European and Asian lineage who had lost their fathers at young age. The initial premises of Eurasia School was located on Miller Street(Chinese:密勒路),now Er'mei Road(Chinese:峨眉路). As the charities of Madam Bonney were appreciated by locals and foreigners, the school successfully gained support from Sir Thomas Hanbury(1832-1907),an English merchant and philanthopist. Under the generous subsidy from Sir Hanbury,the school expanded its campus and renewed its facilities. In 1882,Sir Hanbury suggested that the school operated by Shanghai Municipal Council, but was rejected by the Council due to unknown reason; nevertheless, the Council granted certain amount of allowance to maintain the operation of the school. It was in 1890, eight years later, that the Council offically took over the school, whose name, by then, was "Hanbury Elementary School"(Chinese:汉璧礼蒙养学堂）, the new school name since the amalgamation of Eurasia School with a newly-built nursery in 1889 during the tenure of Mrs.Lanning, the school principal. One year later, "Hanbury Elementary School" moved to No.15 Bone Road(Chinese:蓬路), now Tang'gu Road(Chinese:塘沽路), with a larger and more diversified matriculation.
It was in 1911 that the Municipal Council decided to expand its territory westward, which later contributed to the paving of Yuyuan Road(Chinese:愚园路), where the present campus is located on. The following year witnessed the transfer of the Hanbury Elementary School to the supervision of the Municipal Council, which, being the sole sponsor of the school thus claiming all responsibilities, formally enroll the faculties as its employees.In 1914, "Hanbury Elementary School" was no longer co-educational after it was divided into separate schools for boys and girls. Hanbury Public School for Boys, as its name indicated, served male students only and was removed from Bone Road, where the former campus was, to No.63 Haskell Road(Chinese:赫司克尔路) in 1917. The School for Girls, in contrast, remained until 1935 when it amalgamated with Shanghai Public School for Girls on Bone Road and moved to Hainan Road. Later, in 1943, it moved again to the main campus of Shanghai Public Schools for Girls(Chinses:西童公学女校) on Yuyuan Road. The new institution, upon its establishment, was named as "The Public & Hanbury School for Girls"(Chinese:公立暨汉璧礼西童女校).
The origin of Shanghai Public Schools(Chinese:西童公学) derived from The Shanghai Public School(Chinese:上海公学), founded in 1886 by Free Masons, which changed its Chinese name to "西童公学", literally meaning "the school for westerners". Shanghai Public School was separated into schools for both genders in 1914, with the School for Boys(Chinese:西童公学男校) on No.28 Bone Road and latter No.200 North Sichuan Road(Chinese:四川北路), and its girl division on Yuyuan Road. It was noteworthy that the School for Girls(Chinese:西童公学女校) opened another two branch campus, respectively on Bone Road since 1924 and Gongping Road(Chinese:公平路)since 1926 that later moved to No.17 Yulin Road. The former branch was incorporated into Hanbury School for Girls in 1935, as was mentioned ditto.
In July, 1923, The Public School for Girls started to build its main campus on what is now the cite of Shixi High School, and its primary address was 18B Yuyuan Road. The address was altered to No.70 Yuyuan Road the following year, which by now is No.404 Yuyuan Road. The Public School for Girls merged with Hanbury School for Girls in 1935, and then moved to No.10 Hainan Road(Chinese:海南路). Following the outbreak of the Pacific War, in 1942, Japanese army took over Shanghai International Settlement. It was then that every foreign school north of Suzhou River was forced to into West Shanghai, and, that "The Public & Hanbury School for Boys"(Chinese:公立暨汉璧礼西童男校) was relocated to No.10 Tifong Road(Chinese:地丰路) , now Urumqi Road(Chinese:乌鲁木齐路), where by then was the cite of the "Public School for Boys in West City"(Chinese:西区西童公学), founded in 1924 as the junior division of the Public School for Boys.
In 1943, the Japanese army confiscated the campus of both schools on Yuyan Road, using it as the concentration camp for westerners. During the time of Japanese occupation, the Public School for Boys was split into primary and secondary sections, and moved respectively to No.851 Yuyuan Road and No.178 Jufu Road(Chinese:巨福路). Likewise, the School for Girls was forced to share the campus of the primary section. The concentration camps was dismissed in 1945 as the WWII went to the end; therefore, both schools were able to move back to their former campus. In 1946, the Nationalist Government ordered to merge both schools and the name "Shixi High School"(Chinese:市西中学) was officially granted as Mr.Zhao Chuanjia(Chinese:赵传家), PhD of Colorado State University, assumed the post of the school principal.