The German School Shanghai (German: Deutsche Schule Shanghai, Chinese: 上海德国学校) is a private school which was established in 1995 for expatriate German pupils. With ca. 1300 pupils the school is the largest German School in China and the largest of its kind worldwide.
Academics are based on education in Germany, finishing with the Abitur.
The school contains:
- Kindergarten
- one-year preschool
- four-year elementary school (Grundschule)
- eight-year secondary school (Hauptschule, Realschule and Gymnasium)
The German School Shanghai (DSS) and the French School of Shanghai (LFS) built a new combined "EuroCampus" for their students, completed in 2005.
In September 2007 the PudongCampus was opened, which is a branch of the DSS.
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