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=Shanghai American School, Pudong Campus (IB School Code 2763)=

Summary of the official report conducted by a panel of experienced IB Diploma coordinators in conjunction with the Regional Office of the Diploma Programme of IB Asia Pacific. == = = =IB 5-Year Program Review= =School Year 2010-2011=

SAS Pudong is located on the extreme eastern edge of Shanghai, overlooking the East China Sea. Just a generation ago, some of the land on which the school is built was farmland, and some was not yet reclaimed from the sea. The rapid growth and development of the high school and IB programs on this campus has mirrored the growth of the city as a whole. In August 2005, the High School program on this campus opened with 93 students in Grades 9 and 10. Since then, three new classroom buildings, a gym/fitness building, and an aquatics center have been built, with a Performing Arts Center planned as the final major construction project for the physical facilities here.

In March 2006, we received our authorization to offer the IB Diploma Program, and in August of that year, we began teaching our Year 1 classes with 29 full Diploma and 10 Certificate students. This year we will graduate our 4th class, and our IB program has grown to 184 students (36 full Diploma candidates in Year 2 and 37 in Year 1, plus Certificate students).

Over the past five years, our overarching goals have been to develop an IB Program that adheres to the spirit of IB, both in terms of philosophy and high-quality academics, while maintaining the sense of community and concern for the individual that characterized the school when it was much smaller. In building our program, we have insisted on an inclusive program open to any student with the desire and motivation to take on the challenges of the program, and have emphasized evaluating our results primarily according to the progress of each individual student. In this way, the accomplishments of a student who struggles at times but successfully earns the Diploma matter as much to us as the achievements of a student who scores 40+ points.

Our initial 5-Year Program Review is of course an important milestone for our program. We take pride in the development of the program during these first five years, and look forward to using the results of this review process to guide its further development over the next five years.

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This image was created by Max Wang, a full IB Diploma candidate from the Class of 2011. It incorporates elements of the work from all 25 of the students in IB Visual Arts Y2 this year.