I just got a message from Nanyang Kindergarten that the waitlist already has 400 names on it for the year my kid would start - 2011!!! That’s crazy stuff. We are badly in need of more options, so for those of us who want a full Mandarin curriculum aren’t held hostage or held in line by just a few schools. There’s got to be more options. Come on team, what else is out there besides the few organizations already listed? Private, public doesn’t matter to me…

Glad to see a thread already started on this topic. I’m amazed at how little information is easily found on this topic, considering it seems that Mandarin-only curriculum’s seem to be quite popular (judging from the waitlists mentioned on this thread). So it seems a little ironic - simply supply/demand dynamics, that there is such a limited number of options of nursery’s & kindergarten’s offering mostly Mandarin curriculum’s (let’s say more than 60%). Anybody have ideas on why?


Anybody have an updated list of schools besides the ones already mentioned? Also any suggestions on improving my chances of getting my daughter into one of these programs, i.e. does long waiting list mean I should be applying 1 year or even more before she is of admission age?

Final question, after nursery & kindergarten are the following Chinese school options in primary and beyond similarly difficult to find? In that case I should ask you all for the names now, so I can put my daughter on the waitlist even 5 years in advance… I guess I’m joking, but maybe it’s that serious. Any thoughts/ideas would be appreciated.