The school offers a four-year high-school program, adopting mainly Cambridge Assessment International Education (CAIE) IGCSE and GCE A-level curriculums, and are taught mostly in English.

[2] To maximize students' academic achievements in a challenging international educational environment while fostering their sense of social responsibility, creativity, initiative, and passion, enabling them to seize various opportunities in the future.

[3] Before Summer 2020 the SCIE campus was at Shuiwei, a small area immediately to the north of the Huanggang Port between Shenzhen (mainland China) and Hong Kong SAR.

Students are becoming more willing to follow this policy as time goes on, owing to the nature of overseas studies' demanding language skills requirements.

Due to SCIE's introduction of multilingual lessons, Spanish, French, and Japanese are also used.

In a 2018 report published by British Council, SCIE students have the highest average IELTS score (6.9) out of all international schools in mainland China.