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Suzhou Singapore International School

private, international school in Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ7651057 ↗
Source-derived summary

Suzhou Singapore International School (SSIS) is a private school for children of foreign personnel in Suzhou, Jiangsu, China.

SSIS offers education from Pre-Nursery up to Grade 12, offering programs of the International Baccalaureate and High School Diploma. SSIS is an IB world school and offers all three IB programs, the Primary Years Program, Middle Years Program, and Diploma Program. The school includes a section for German students.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Suzhou Singapore International School” is private, international school in Suzhou, Jiangsu, China. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Suzhou, Singapore and International, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current 67-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1996. For this dossier, Suzhou, Singapore and International is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “private, international school in Suzhou, Jiangsu, China” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7651057. Authority coordinates are 31.320, 120.757. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

Official terminology may obscure informal participation, dissent or communities documented only indirectly. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.

Best used for
  • Event chronology
  • Institutional context
  • Locating named record creators
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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Suzhou Singapore International School”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Suzhou Singapore International School primary sources, Suzhou Singapore International School archive and Suzhou research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Suzhou Singapore International School”?
  2. Who created the surviving record, and for what administrative purpose?
  3. Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Suzhou Singapore International School” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.