[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).

[1] The original campus was in a building that previously functioned as a residence for a prince who lived in the Qing Dynasty.

[2] 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.