Beijing Bayi School (Chinese: 北京市八一学校), also known as the August 1st School, is a public elementary through high school with three campuses in Haidian District, Beijing.[1]
Tetsushi Takahashi of Nikkei Shimbun wrote that Beijing Bayi School is "prestigious".[2]Evan Osnos of New Yorker wrote that the "exclusive" Beijing Bayi School was known as the "cradle of leaders" (领袖摇篮; lǐngxiù yáolán).[3]
From 2013, Shattuck-Saint Mary's of Minnesota, USA operated an expansion campus in the Bayi School. The partnership ended in 2016 over disagreements regarding control and funding.[5]
Campuses
North campus, formerly the Wanquanhe Middle SchoolElementary campus, formerly the Caihefang Primary School
The school has three campuses: Main, North, and Elementary.[1]
The original campus was in a building that previously functioned as a residence for a prince who lived in the Qing Dynasty.[3] It is about 10 kilometers (6.2 mi) north of Zhongnanhai, the residential facility for the top leadership of China.[2]
Student body and student culture
Takahashi stated that in the era prior to the Cultural Revolution, descendants of the leaders of the Chinese Communist Party, known as "second-generation reds", were enrolled at Beijing Bayi School.[2]
Osnos wrote that in the pre-Cultural Revolution period the pupils "formed a small, close-knit élite; they lived in the same compounds, summered at the same retreats, and shared a sense of noblesse oblige."[3]
Mi Hedu, author of The Red Guard Generation, wrote that pre-Cultural Revolution pupils "compared one another on the basis of whose father had a higher rank, whose father rode in a better car."[3]
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