Tsinghua University High School International, Beijing

A 12-year bilingual school at the National Tennis Centre in Chaoyang that opened in 2015 as the international wing of Tsinghua University High School and severed its Tsinghua legal ties in 2022, rebranding domestically as Beijing Chaoyang District Qingsen School (清森学校). The English brand THSI is still in circulation and the campus and tennis-anchored programme continue, but ownership, accreditation and staffing have all moved through change in the same window. The pitch is small cohorts, an AP-track US-university pathway and serious tennis. The picture sitting underneath that pitch is less settled than the marketing reads.

Small school, tennis-anchored campus. Around 500 students across grades 1 to 12 on a single Chaoyang site at the National Tennis Centre next to Olympic Forest Park. The tennis facilities and on-site coaching are genuinely unusual for a school of this size, and the campus footprint and class sizes (about 22 per class, capped at 25) get cited as part of the appeal.

Bilingual immersion with a US-track ceiling. Chinese and English both run as instructional languages, with an AP-oriented high school. The teaching staff is mixed Chinese and foreign, and the senior-year destinations have historically included US, UK and top Chinese universities. Parents pick it for the bilingual depth alongside an outbound college pathway.

Considerations

Tsinghua brand without the Tsinghua structure. The school separated from Tsinghua-affiliated entities in 2022 and was renamed Qingsen School under the Chaoyang District Education Commission. The English-language THSI branding and the qhfz / Tsinghua references continue in places, which has caused confusion. The day-to-day school is no longer governed or staffed through Tsinghua University High School.
Accreditation and governance churn. The school held CIS membership and Cognia certification through the Tsinghua-affiliated period; the rebrand and ownership change reset that picture. Independent commentary from inside the school over the rebrand window talks about contract renegotiations on lower terms and staff turnover. The institution as it stands today is younger than its 2015 founding date suggests.
Fees in the upper-middle band. Published fees ran around RMB 198,000 for primary and RMB 218,000 for middle school in the most recent public figures, sitting below the very top of the Beijing market but well above bilingual-only options. The value question is now tied to the post-rebrand teaching team rather than the legacy Tsinghua heritage.
Two-name confusion. Easily confused with Tsinghua International School (THIS, 清华附中国际部), the older K-12 international division on the Tsinghua Fuzhong campus in Haidian. The two share heritage and the surname Tsinghua but are now operationally and geographically separate, with different governance, admissions rules and parent profiles.