No 5 Shanghai Community International School

Annual tuition fee: RMB 245,000 ($38,563)

Shanghai Community International School (SCIS) was founded in 1996 for the children of expatriates. SCIS is a member of the East Asian Regional Conference of Overseas Schools and in 2001 received full accreditation from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.

SCIS received a six-year term of accreditation by the Chinese National Council of Curriculum and Textbooks, becoming the first international school in Shanghai to achieve this distinction.

The campus of Shanghai Community International School. [File photo]