While UISG is historically a day school, we are thrilled to announce the launch of our new boarding program, available from the start of the 2026–27 academic year!

As an international school aligned with the relevant regulations set by the Guangzhou Education Bureau, UISG is only able to offer enrollment to students holding a valid foreign passport or children who are Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan residents. We are not able to offer enrollment to children who hold a People’s Republic of China passport.

If you are uncertain if your child is eligible to apply to UISG, please contact the Admissions Office before you begin the application process.

After all application steps including an interview with one of our Heads of School have been completed, you should receive your admission decision within 5 working days. Your Admissions Representative will be in regular contact with you throughout the process and will update you if there will be any delays.

Please note that application processing times may be slower during summer and national holidays.

If we have reached our maximum capacity in your child’s grade level, you will receive a notification that they have been placed in our wait pool for future enrollment consideration. If an appropriate space becomes available in the future, our Admissions Office will contact you with an offer of enrollment.

Students from Grade 4-12 that have not attended a full-time English language school for at least 3 years will be requested to complete an English language assessment as part of the application process. This assessment may be completed on-campus or online with the assistance of an Admissions proctor. 

Heads of Division may request applicants to complete additional language or subject assessments based on a review of their application and their requested year level. In some instances, a trial class observation may be required before an admissions decision can be granted.

We request all applicants complete a student and family interview during the application process with a Head of Division. This interview is not an opportunity to judge the child on the spot, but rather we use it as an opportunity to get to know your child and family better, answer any questions you may have about UISG, and ensure that there is a strong fit between your family’s educational goals and UISG learning philosophies.

Please review the grade level placement policy on our Admissions Procedures page for details on how to select the correct year level for your child in the application.

Our Admissions Office is available to help answer any questions you may have about selecting the appropriate year level. However, please note that the final decision on grade level placement will be made by your child’s Head of Division after reviewing their completed application.

Parents are required to use the online application portal to request a Confidential Reference Form from their child’s most recent teacher if they are applying for Grade 1-12.

After you’ve completed the initial application form for your child in the application portal, you will see a link for “Confidential Reference Form”. Please click that link and enter the professional e-mail address of the teacher who will provide your child’s recommendation. That teacher will receive an e-mail link from us with instructions on how to complete the form.

For the sake of confidentiality, UISG can only accept reference forms that are submitted using the online system or that are sent directly to us from the recommending teacher. Recommendation forms that are sent to us by the applicant’s parents will not be accepted.

We always encourage families to submit the application as soon as they have made the decision to apply. We do not have a hard deadline for when applications must be submitted. Space in some grade levels may be limited, and offers of enrollment will be made on a first-come, first-served basis.

For families hoping to have their child join us at the start of a new school year in August, we recommend submitting the application early in the Spring. For families that are hoping to have their child join us at the start of the second semester in January, we recommend submitting the application in late Autumn.

We understand that families may sometimes make sudden moves to Guangzhou with little notice, and our Admissions Office will work with you to move through the application process quickly in these instances.

We recommend that students start school with their peers in August at the start of a new school year or at the start of the second semester in January. However, we understand that international families move throughout the academic year and regularly enroll students after a new semester has begun. Our Admissions Office works closely with our Academic teams and families to ensure that these mid-semester transitions are as smooth as possible.

Please note that in some grade levels, students wishing to enroll during the last few weeks of a semester may need to defer their start until the start of the new semester due to the end-of-semester assessment schedule.

The easiest way to pay the application fee is via the WeChat pay code below.

Please make sure that in the notes of your payment that you include your child(ren)’s full name so that we can associate the payment with your family. We encourage you to send a copy of your application fee remittance to admissions@uisgz.org and finance@uisgz.org.

If you’d like to pay the application fee via bank transfer, please contact us and we will provide you our bank transfer information.