Located in Beijing’s Chaoyang District, Daystar Academy (also known locally as Qimingxing Bilingual School) is a coeducational school offering the International Baccalaureate continuum through the Primary Years, Middle Years, and Diploma programmes within the context of the Chinese national curriculum. The school sets itself apart through its deeply integrated bilingual approach, emphasizing character education, social innovation, and environmental stewardship to cultivate purpose-driven, globally minded learners.
What teachers and parents say
Positives
- Strong bilingual and primary foundation: Praised by parents and teachers for its dual-language immersion approach and supportive learning environment, particularly at the early childhood and primary levels.
- Close-knit, welcoming community: Noted for a warm, family-oriented culture, manageable class sizes, and generally happy, engaged students.
- Competitive savings potential: Teaching staff report respectable compensation packages that enable solid monthly savings relative to the cost of living in Beijing.
Negatives
- Inconvenient campus location: The Shunbai Road (Beigao) site is located in an out-of-the-way, suburban area that can feel relatively isolated and inconvenient for commuting.
- Secondary program limitations and turnover: The high school IB track is smaller and less established, leading some older students and teachers to leave for larger, more traditional tier-1 schools.
- Address
- No. 2 Shunbai Road, Chaoyang DistrictBeijing, 100012China
- [email protected]
- Phone
- China (+86) 10 6433 7366
- System
- IB
- National education system
- China
- Curriculum
- IB Diploma, IB Middle Years, IB Primary Years
- Levels
- Primary, Middle school
- Enrollment
- 696
- Faculty
- 132
- Students
- Coeducational
