Brief:
Shanghai American School, located in Shanghai is the school to over 1500 students form all over the world. The school has two campuses, one located in Puxi and the other in Pudong areas of Shanghai.

Detailed:
Although it first opened in 1912 and has an illustrious group of alumni, Shanghai American School is in many ways a young school. From 1949 to 1980 the school was closed. For the first twelve years after it reopened, it operated a limited program for less than 100 students. However, since 1993 growth and enrollment have been dramatic and the school has developed rapidly. Shanghai American School is a private, non-profit, co-educational international school. The school is owned by the SAS Parent Association and is governed by a Board of Directors elected from and by the parents of the school. Located on both extremes of the sprawling city of Shanghai, two SAS campuses serve as educational and cultural centers for much of the expatriate community in Shanghai. In the past six years the school has grown from a student population of about 800 to its current enrollment of over 1700 students from about 50 nationalities. The first graduation of SAS High School students in 50 years took place in 1995 with a class of six students. This year, SAS will graduate 80 students and by 2004 there will be 120 students. Most growth has come as a result of rapid increase in Shanghai’s expatriate business community, the world’s most rapidly developing center of investment.