School Mission
Cultivating leaders who walk the world with pride
School Overview
Cogdel School Chengdu is a K-12 fully boarding international school located in the ancient town of Anren in Dayi County, Chengdu. The school sits within a nationally rated 5A scenic area, surrounded by 80 years of heritage Republican-era architecture.
The campus is home to 40 historic heritage buildings, with 52% green coverage where squirrels and peacocks roam freely. Education unfolds naturally in an environment where historic charm meets modern facilities -- carrying the weight of history while embracing the energy of the future.
International Accreditations
Cogdel School Chengdu holds multiple internationally recognized accreditations:
- Cambridge Assessment International Education (CAIE) -- Official IGCSE/A-Level Examination Centre
- Pearson Edexcel -- Official IGCSE/A-Level Examination Centre
- Cambridge English Assessment -- Official KET/PET Examination Centre
- College Board (USA) -- Authorized AP Course Provider
- IB-PYP (Primary Years Programme) -- Official Candidate School
- Cognia -- Global Accreditation for International Schools
- Duke of Edinburgh's International Award -- Operating Centre
Recognized by China's Ministry of Education as a "Sino-Foreign Cultural Exchange Characteristic School."
Principal's Message
Amy Lu (Lu Kun)
Education: B.Eng. in Aerospace Engineering, Tsinghua University; MBA, China Europe International Business School (CEIBS)
Career: Former aircraft design engineer at AVIC; former Investment Director
Principal Lu designed Cogdel around three education pain points:
A Future-Ready School -- Breaking the single assessment system. Cultivating irreplaceable abilities for the AI era. Replacing traditional report cards with the "8-Dimension Competency Portfolio."
A People-First School -- Connecting school with society. Through project-based learning, career exploration, the Investors' Classroom, and Career Fairs, students engage with how the real world operates while still in school.
A School That Cultivates Leaders -- Making soft skills development scientific rather than mystical. Tracking leadership growth by semester, recording every step of progress with data.
Three Education Pain Points
We Start from the Problems
Pain Point 1: Breaking the Single Assessment System
Traditional schools use written exam scores as the sole standard, which inherently undermines the confidence of at least 80% of students. Cogdel replaces traditional report cards with the "8-Dimension Competency Portfolio" -- every teacher becomes a "sensor" that discovers growth.
Pain Point 2: Connecting School with Society
Through project-based learning, career exploration starting in Grade 6, the Investors' Classroom, and Career Fairs, we broaden students' horizons and prevent them from focusing solely on "how to pass exams."
Pain Point 3: Making Soft Skills Development Scientific
Using engineering logic, we transform soft skills development from a black box into something trackable, assessable, and manageable -- turning it into a science.
8-Dimension Competency
Cogdel's proprietary "8-Dimension Competency Portfolio" covers eight core dimensions of student development:
Well-being
The ability to maintain stable and reliable physical and mental functioning through continuous self-awareness and regulation, forming the foundation for long-term value creation.
Learning
The ability to actively construct and extend one’s knowledge framework, internalising knowledge and skills into structured understanding, and continuously evolving mental models to adapt to change.
Innovation
The ability to challenge and reshape existing frameworks based on deep understanding, identify underlying patterns, and creatively develop and apply new approaches that drive breakthrough progress.
Agency
The ability to initiate and sustain action independently based on an understanding of one’s goals and values, driving continuous growth through self-reflection and self-motivation.
Leadership
The ability to set direction, make key judgments, and mobilise others’ potential and action, amplifying individual capability into collective outcomes.
Collaboration
The ability to integrate diverse strengths, reduce friction, and enhance collective effectiveness through communication, empathy, trust-building, and proactive support.
Vision
The ability to understand issues from multiple perspectives across broader contexts, integrate resources, and anticipate long-term trends to expand individual and organisational capacity.
Stewardship
The ability to pursue achievement while accounting for the long-term impact of one’s decisions on others and society, integrating this responsibility into action to enable sustainable outcomes.
In a Nutshell
Using engineering logic to design future-ready education. At Cogdel, every child's growth is seen, recorded, and cherished.