Quick Facts

Maple Leaf Educational Systems

  • MLES opened its first school in Dalian, China in 1995 with 14 students
  • China’s Largest Private K-12 and Largest international school system
  • British Columbia’s first and Canada’s largest offshore school system
  • Inspected and certified by the Ministry of Education, Province of British Columbia, Canada since the 1997-98 school year
  • Maple Leaf Systems, and its secondary, middle, elementary and foreign nationals schools, as well as its Maple Leaf World Schools Curriculum are accredited by Cognia (formerly AdvancED) – Cognia is the largest school accrediting body in the world, and Cognia’s accreditation includes accreditation by 3 of the 6 regional school accrediting agencies recognized by the USA government
  • China Maple Leaf Educational Systems launched as a public company on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on November 28, 2014 (Stock Code Number:1317)
  • Opened subsidiary companies with offices in different countries and regions: Maple Leaf Education North America (Vancouver, BC) in 2014 and Maple Leaf Education Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) in 2015

Our Schools in China

  • As one of China's international education leaders, since the establishment in 1995, Maple Leaf Educational Systems (MLES) has opened over 100 schools in 25 cities globally.


  • Schools located in China include schools in Dalian (1995), Wuhan (2007), Tianjin TEDA (2008), Chongqing Yongchuan (2009), Zhenjiang (2011),  Luoyang (2012), Shanghai (2013), Pingdingshan (2014), Tianjin Huayuan (2014), Jingzhou (2015), Yiwu (2015), Pinghu (2016), Huai’an (2016), Xi’an (2016), Huzhou (2017), Weifang (2017), Yancheng (2017), Haikou (2017), Shenzhen (2018), XiangYang (2018), Luzhou (2019), Jinan (2019) and Horinger (2020).

Our Schools outside of China

Maple Leaf School – KPU

A high school in Richmond (Vancouver), BC, Canada, located on the campus of Kwantlen Polytechnic University (2017).



Maple Leaf – Kingsley International School

Located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2020).


Maple Leaf – Canadian International School

Located in Singapore (2020).

Our Students

  • Over 40,000 students enrolled.

Our Graduates

  • 1145 graduates in 2023; 80% received offers from QS Top 100 universities in the world and nearly 86.64% from ML Global Top Universities.
  • Over 23,000 graduates (since 1999) have studied at over 826 universities in more than 30 countries and regions.
  • 64 institutions from 10 countries and regions participated in the 19th annual Maple Leaf International Education (Student Recruitment) Fair in November 2023.
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