[2] The company Nord Anglia Education operates two school campuses in Beijing: one in Shunyi and the other in Sanlitun, Chaoyang.

[7] Students in the primary levels study Mandarin Chinese and may choose to take a second foreign language.

[8] The school offers a German Primary Programme for German-speaking primary school students in Klasse 1 to 4 to study core subjects in German, following the Thuringia Curriculum, while integrating into the English National Curriculum with non-core subjects and a variety of whole school activities.

The British made up the largest group of students at BSB, about 25% of the total.

The mainland European nationalities together totaled 30%, and the third-largest grouping originated from North America.