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Xiamen Foreign Language School
Xiamen Foreign Language School (Chinese: 厦门外国语学校; pinyin: xiàmén wàiguó yǔ xuéxiào) is a secondary and senior high school in Xiamen, Fujian, China, FacilitiesThe school has two campuses that cover 112,707 m2 with four buildings of 65,222 m2. The school hosts three classroom buildings, two laboratory buildings, an education technology center, two administrative office buildings, a library, an art center, a gym building, three dormitories, two dining halls, a teachers dormitory and two apartment buildings for foreign teachers. The school has 12 physics laboratories, 12 chemistry laboratories and 9 biology laboratories.[citation needed] The multifunction building offers language laboratories, audio-visual education classrooms, labor and technique education classrooms, computer classrooms, music and art education classrooms, and three lecture theaters. A kilometer school network includes about 500 terminals.[citation needed] The school libraries harbor 105,000 volumes.[citation needed] On the playground are 200m and 400m plastic cement track rings, an indoor track area, eight basketball courts, six volleyball courts and two football fields.[citation needed] The school has 62 classes (including English medium classes) with about 3000 students and 240 teachers including 37 senior teachers, 86 Rank-one teachers and 36 staffers.[citation needed] PurposeThe school provides three years for junior high school and three for senior high school. It enrolls students competitively. It enrolls new students for Junior One (初一 chū-yī) on the basis of competitive selection from across the city. After they finish the junior level, most continue their study except those who are not suitable for further development as foreign language students.[citation needed] The school emphasizes the English language.[citation needed] Therefore:[citation needed]
The average total score, excellence rate and the assessment index for teaching quality came out at the top in the city's Junior Secondary School Graduation Examination. The school's excellence rate in the Provincial Senior Secondary School Graduation Examination matched first-rate[citation needed] Since 1988, the average proportion of students entering universities or colleges has been above 85%. From 1996 to 2004, it was 99.05% (100% for 1996, 1999, 2003 and 2004). A graduate in 2000 got first place in the college-entrance examination instituted for students of liberal arts in Fujian Province.[citation needed] School honours include[citation needed]:
Sister SchoolHangzhou Foreign Language School[1] International CooperationXiamen Foreign Language School has established international cooperation with these educational institutions:
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