Moonshot Academy, Beijing

Public commentary on Moonshot Academy splits sharply between school-published parent testimonials (warm, on-message) and a long ex-staff thread's r/intschoolreview describing the 2022 takeover of the previous Tsinghua school (THSI) and rebrand as Beijing Qingsen School. Parents weighing the school should read both.
The Reddit thread, written by a teacher who worked through the transition and corroborated by a second former colleague, describes opaque communication, contracts and social-security arrangements that staff felt were not legitimate, and a head of primary running the school remotely from outside China for a full year. One ex-teacher said new hires under Moonshot read like tech-startup people rather than career educators, and pastoral cover for secondary students fell through the cracks.
A former student commenting on the same thread said they transferred out mid-year because they struggled in a school that, as a non-Chinese speaker, did not work for them, though they noted their next Beijing school was no better.
On the positive side, school-published parent essays describe a founder-led project-based ethos, a focus on independence and active citizenship, and a parent-and-student-co-designed campus. The tennis programme, run with the China National Tennis Center, is the one feature former staff also rated highly.