Shanghai Pinghe School is a boarding school with full operational and financial independence authorized by its board of directors. Pinghe consists of an elementary school section(grades 1 - 5), a middle school section(grades 6 - 9), a high school IB program (grades 10 - 12) and the international curriculum department. Students begin their study at the age of 6. The school was founded on 1st September 1996 and enrolls students from all over Shanghai. It has also been authorized to take overseas students. Today, there are over 1600 students in the school and among whom over 160 are from 16 countries and regions, such as the USA, Japan, Korea, Italy, Canada, Singapore, England, Hong Kong, Taiwan, etc.

Pinghe School is located in Jin Qiao Green International Community in Pudong, Shanghai. It has a beautiful campus and quiet environment. Pinghe Art Center, jointly founded by the school and Shanghai Symphonic Orchestra, is located in the main building.

In September 2002, the school launched the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program with the high school section. All subjects are taught in English. The application of this program passed the examination of the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO) in May 2003 and the school has been a member school of the IBO since then. In August 2004, we set up the International Program Department for the international students. Subjects are taught by both foreign and Chinese teachers as required. In October 2005, the school underwent the scrutiny of CITA, which is an international and cross-regional accreditation organization, and was granted as a member school for accreditation CITA - China Model School. In December 2004, the school was recognized as one of the first bilingual schools in Shanghai.

The school aims to pursue high quality teaching in its core subjects and enable students to achieve high scores and abilities. The school is trying to make its management in teaching as effective as possible, strengthen its quality mechanism, attach great importance to the fundamentals in the teaching process, make sure students acquire basic concepts of learning and teachers improve classroom teaching efficiency. The school has invited experts to help young teachers, provide feedbacks of the students' studies and apply quality control on teaching. For many years, all grades in the primary school have ranked at the top in examinations in the school district, and the middle school in Pudong. Since 2002, 100% of grade 9 students have been qualified for graduation and the high mark rate has been in the lead for 3 years running in Pudong. The average mark for middle school graduates is higher than that required for admission by the key schools in districts in Shanghai.