Léman International School Chengdu

Forbes China International Schools ranked No. 1 in Southwest China.

OUR CLOSE-KNIT COMMUNITY YIELDS OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC RESULTS

At Léman International School Chengdu, we’re proud to be the largest and one of the best international schools in Chengdu. Despite our large student body, we focus on small class sizes that enable our highly qualified teachers give continual, tailored support. As a result, our ambitious students go on to surpass world averages in their academic outcomes – placing our school in the top 1.8% of all global IBDP international schools, for example.

BEING ACADEMICALLY AMBITIOUS

At Léman International School Chengdu, there’s no limit to what your child will achieve. Thanks to our small class sizes, our teachers know each child very well and will enable exceptional individual achievement in all curriculum areas. We use data-driven assessments and personalised reporting to mark your child’s progress step by step, and we encourage your child to be ambitious by focusing heavily on building their confidence, as they grow rapidly.

As a result of our approach, we’re proud that 3 out of 4 of our graduates are accepted into the world's top 100 universities, including Oxford, Tsinghua, Imperial College London, London School of Economics, UC Berkeley, NYU, Yonsei University, and the New York Fashion Institute.

FUTURE-READY LEARNING IN AND BEYOND THE CLASSROOM

In our internationally minded community of learners at Léman, we’re connected, empowered, challenged, and inspired to be our best – whether that’s in or out of the classroom. We know your child will have every opportunity they need for success at Léman International School Chengdu.

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Academic excellence

At Léman, our highly qualified teachers work closely with all our students by personalising their learning plans and motivating them step by step to achieve more. As a result, our students greatly succeed with it comes time for the IB, earning marks well above the world average that opens pathways to the world’s best universities.

Academic excellence

From Early Years Foundation Stage through graduation, our small class sizes of about 15 students allow our outstanding teachers to give our students the individual attention they need to flourish – helping build their strong foundations, as they grow into confident, kind, and independent learners.

We’re also always ready to support our students’ fast growth through a variety of supplementary and specialised efforts. Our Head of Inclusion provides services like English support, special education, and psychological counselling, and our highly qualified English as an Additional Language (EAL) Department supports students of varied abilities in English. Furthermore, our University Counsellor guides our students through all parts of their university preparation and applications.

By the time our students take the IB Diploma, they’re ready for success: For seven consecutive years, LIS Chengdu students have surpassed the IB world average. Last year, for example, our average IB score of 38.2 was over 19% higher than the IB global average of 32 points. We’re incredibly proud of our students’ outstanding achievements.

Exceptional learning experiences

At Léman, our students discover their talents in academics alongside the development of their character and abilities beyond the classroom, too. Through many after-school clubs, sports, and learning support programmes, our students enrich themselves through challenges and adventures.

Exceptional learning experiences

As an important component of all learning experiences at LIS Chengdu, our students develop their critical thinking in tandem with developing global perspectives. Our Global Perspectives curriculum, from Year 9, is designed to broaden our students’ international awareness, and our IB Programme particularly allows our students to focus on creating an international mindset through its ‘global citizenship’ framework. Through this framework, our students analyse various international topics and connect their local service with global events.

Our students love to showcase and further their learning through a wide range of after-school activities spanning the arts, technical skills, and sports, and they also enjoy going on national trips across China and international trips to destinations like Tanzania and Lés Martinets.

During all our students’ learning experiences, our learning support team is always available to guide those who may have individual needs and differences – including skills acquisition to personalised programming and support.

The world's best teachers

We recruit only the world's best teachers and provide training with world-leading institutions, so they have outstanding professional development opportunities. Our highly qualified teachers use their world-class resources to transform your child’s learning and to help them accelerate to their goals.

The world's best teachers

At Léman, our teaching team has a wealth of experience nationally and internationally, both in the UK and in several other countries. All our teachers hold UK Qualified Teacher Status or the equivalent, and many hold at least one master’s degree.

All our teachers undergo a comprehensive induction programme when joining LIS Chengdu to ensure they’re fully fluent in the expectations, policies, and procedures of our school and quickly become aware of the highest-quality global standards of the Nord Anglia family. They also take advantage of exclusive trainings and world-class resources from top institutions in the world, provided through Nord Anglia University.

As a result, our teachers deliver high quality and personalised lessons with confidence, guiding our students towards academic success. Because of our teachers’ quality, 96% of Léman parents believe their child has a good relationship with their teachers and 97% say their child is happy at LIS Chengdu.

The Nord Anglia Education family

Being a student at Léman doesn’t mean our students only stay connected with Chengdu – as part of Nord Anglia’s international family, it means our students can swiftly connect both locally and globally with their peers and with alumni from around the world!

The Nord Anglia Education family

Being part of the Nord Anglia international family allows our students to have an immediate network of both peers and alumni all over the world, with whom they can connect with to support their ambitions and future endeavours.

Our Nord Anglia platform, Global Campus, especially allows our students to connect, collaborate, and learn with and from each another through exclusive global projects, challenges, and resources that expand their worldviews. Through Global Campus, every student can feel truly part of a unique global family of learners, and many students develop lifelong friendships.

On campus at Léman, we have an international community of 30 different nationalities, as we welcome families from across the world. We arrange many educational and social activities to make friends, build connections, and strengthen the home-school partnership. As a result, an astounding 99% of new parents say their experience joining LIS Chengdu was positive, warm, and welcoming.

Our social purpose

At Léman, our students discover their social purpose through a variety of initiatives that connect the ways they can help their community with a larger sense of what they can do in the world. Our students discover ways to help and give back to others, to improve their school and environment, and to connect with both local and global needs.

Our social purpose

Whether it’s taking a leadership role on the Student Council, getting involved in environmental actions, or participating in a UNICEF activity, our students are connecting with the communities around them and thinking beyond their locale, too.

At Léman, our Student Council are trusted and empowered by their classmates to serve as the voice for their year groups. By communicating their fellow students’ needs, concerns, and desires to their teachers and administration, they develop a sense of purpose to make things better within our own school. They also build important critical thinking and leadership skills that they’ll use in their futures.

Another popular activity our students are engaged in is building a more sustainable future through a circular economy via Zero Waste Company Chengdu. Our students develop an economic system aimed at eliminating waste and the continual use of resources.

An advanced learning environment

At of Léman International School Chengdu, our expansive, landscaped 50-acre campus encompasses world-class classroom facilities and high-tech learning spaces, alongside the best on-campus sporting facilities of any international school in Chengdu.

An advanced learning environment

Each area of our campus has been thoughtfully designed to maximise our students’ learning experiences in safe, age-appropriate spaces.

We make considerable ongoing investments to develop our spaces for indoor and outdoor sports, the arts, and STEAM activities. Our spaces have best-in-class teaching tools, equipment, and materials including the newest technologies in using interactive whiteboards, iPads, 3D printers, music technology and instruments, and makerspace equipment.

With the best on-campus sporting facilities of any international school in Chengdu, we host many sporting events in the region and welcome all students to our two full-sized artificial soccer fields; indoor volleyball courts; 25-meter, six-lane heated pool; 400-meter track; and extensive cross-country trails.

Léman International School Chengdu