NAS Beijing

A Nord Anglia bilingual K-12 boarding school in Shunyi that opened in 2022, distinct from sister school BSB Shunyi on the foreign-passport circuit. The student body is mostly Chinese passport holders following the Chinese national curriculum through Grade 9, then IBDP at high school.

The campus is large by any standard, around 53 acres with 35,000 sqm of buildings, capacity for around 1,440 students and 484 boarding beds available from Grade 4 upwards. Teaching is split roughly 70 percent English and 30 percent Chinese in high school, with more Chinese lower down. Boarding is a real part of the model rather than a niche add-on.

Because this is a bilingual Chinese-curriculum school rather than a foreign-passport international school, the family conversation is different from the BSB or WAB shortlist. Expat families considering NAS Beijing usually want serious Mandarin immersion and are comfortable with Chinese-system rhythms. The Nord Anglia parent name buys a familiar IBDP exit and the operator's global resources, but the day-to-day feel is closer to a high-end bilingual Chinese school than to a Western international one.

• This is the bilingual Nord Anglia campus opened in Shunyi in 2022, a separate operation from the British School of Beijing. The two are routinely confused online.
• Teacher-side forum threads describe Nord Anglia in China as a chain employer with inconsistent communication. One applicant called HR after a final-round interview "ghosted" them.
• Comments about Nord Anglia in China more broadly call the group ruthless to work for and warn that satisfaction depends heavily on the specific campus.
• Independent parent feedback is scarce because the school is new; what appears online is largely group marketing about the Shunyi campus, boarding option and bilingual model.
• Pay and tuition place it as a premium bilingual rather than a true expat international, with most students from Chinese passport-holding families.