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The Taipei Kuei Shan School (Chinese: 台北市私立奎山高級實驗中學附屬國中部, literally Taipei City Kuei Shan High Grade Experimental High School), is a bilingual international school located in Taipei, Taiwan.

History
Kuei Shan was founded in 1963 by Hsiong Hui-ying, initially as a small private school for kindergarten through grade 9. At the time, there were about 50 students per class in schools in Taiwan. Kuei Shan experimented with less students per class, saying it would make learning more effective. The school also experimented with the addition of Biblical teachings in order to show students one of the many ways to goodness and virtue.

Bilingualness
In 2002, the school added an English language immersion program in order to prepare its students for life in other countries.

International Baccalaureate
Kuei Shan became an International school in 2015, and continues to be one to this day.

External structure
Kuei Shan, at first glance, is a large, rectangular building covered in dark green climbing plants. Windows poke out from behind the plants. The school is surrounded by a long red bar fence that is in need of a new paint job. From inside the school, one can look up and see its 6 floors, all fitted with brightish red railings that also have peeling paint. (except for the first floor)

Kuei Shan also has another campus at Lanya Elementary School (Chinese: 蘭雅國小) for the 6th, 7th, and 8th graders who go to Kuei Shan. These students use the 4th floor and schoolyard of Lanya.

Internal structure
Kuei Shan has 2 stairways, a wide one in the middle, and a narrower one on one side. On the other side of the school is a large metal spiral slide, reaching from the sixth to the first floor. In 2022, progress started on building an elevator on one side of the school, next to the slide. This was because the government/IB [citation needed] required the school to be accessible by disabled people or people with trouble walking.

In 2023, the elevator exterior was completed. The outer walls are made of glass, and there are several white rectangular rings surrounding the elevator column.

Infrastructure
Kuei Shan covers all grades from K-12. Grades K-5 and 9-12 go to school in the main campus, grades 6-8 go to school at the Lanya campus. There are 2 classes per grade, at least for grades 6-12. Students receive bilingual instruction, but after grade 9 the students receive more English teaching than Chinese, due to the school's want to prepare students for studying overseas. Like other Taiwanese schools, there are a few breaks spread throughout the Kuei Shan school day. During this time, students can walk around the school and do almost anything.

Lunch is eaten at 12:00 PM sharp, in the classroom. The teachers turn off the lights while the students are eating lunch, presumably to make them feel sleepy.

Unique things
Kuei Shan has an event called "Intramural Sports" (Chinese: 聯賽). Students in the elementary and middle school part of Kuei Shan play various team sports on the main campus schoolyard every Wednesday. For the middle school students, they walk from Lanya to Kuei Shan after their post-lunch nap, guided across the road by teachers. The students wear multicolored uniforms to denote which of the sports teams they are on, leading passersby to remark that "the circus is in town".

Controversy
In 2021, Kuei Shan was fined for holding a physical graduation ceremony. At the time, the Taiwanese government's COVID-19 restrictions forbid large groups of people gathering. The school was fined around NT$300,000 (about $9,800 USD) for the ceremony.

Feedback
The school has been criticized on many other things, including poor WiFi and low-quality chairs that are prone to collapsing. One only has to read the Google Maps reviews of the school to know how its students feel about it.

Extra facts
The school's running track is incomplete. A portion of the running track is grass.

A physical education teacher at Kuei Shan invented a sport called "Glo-Ball". It is a game consisting of a small ball and two nets. The 9th and 10th grade students can sometimes be seen playing this sport.