Record Broken! LWS Living Word Shanghai Earns 90 Perfect AP Scores — Multiple Students Achieve 12 Perfect Scores, 4 Students Awarded the AP Capstone Diploma, Leading the Yangtze River Delta

A golden wave of July heat heralded the unveiling of the 2025 AP global exam results—LWS students, wielding pens like swords, carved their names across the summer sky!

136 warriors charged into 359 academic arenas

90 perfect scores of 5 lit up the LWS honor roll like starlight

An 81% distinction rate, far above the global level

4 knights of the Capstone temple, crowned upon the throne!

 

 

This is more than a report card

It is a challenge letter from future leaders to the world!
 

 

AP Research 100% + AP seminar 80%

AP Capstone Diploma: a top-3% distinction worldwide

These results not only highlight our students' outstanding research abilities and academic potential, but also reflect our school's remarkable achievements in cultivating critical thinking and independent research skills. As one of the few schools in Shanghai offering the AP Capstone Diploma program, Living Word Shanghai is committed to strengthening students' critical thinking, research, collaboration, time management, and presentation skills through this program. Designed by the College Board for academically exceptional students, AP Capstone builds comprehensive competencies through project-based research and seminars. The diploma is now officially recognized by numerous U.S. universities and has become a standout highlight in college applications. It is not only a symbol of honor, but also the highest affirmation of the academic capabilities of both our school and our students. Our students have claimed a place among the top 3% worldwide, demonstrating that they have reached an exceptionally high level in academic research and college preparatory coursework.

The Arts Arena · Every Crown Claimed

3D Art × Drawing → 100% distinction rate

A showcase of their exceptional talent in artistic creation and visual expression.

The Language Battlefield · Double Crowns

Chinese & Japanese → 100% distinction rate

Proof of their outstanding achievements in language mastery and cross-cultural communication.

The Hall of Science · Barrier-Breaking Light

Environmental Science 100%｜Chemistry 93% | Precalculus 91%｜Physics 89%

These results demonstrate not only a solid foundation in scientific inquiry and experimental skills, but also a bright future in the sciences.

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→ 6 perfect scores in 2025 alone

→ A cumulative 12 AP exams, every one a 5

“The All-Around King” — Student Z

→ Perfect scores across multiple fields [Physics, Research, Computer Science, Psychology, Statistics, and more]

→ Extraordinary academic strength and profound knowledge reserves

“The Twin Stars of Eight” — Students D & S

→ 8 AP perfect scores each

→ The crown jewel: a perfect score in AP Research

(a top-3% distinction worldwide)

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Math & Science Fortress:Calculus / Physics / Chemistry / Environmental Science

Humanities Highland:History / Psychology

Language Stronghold:Chinese / Japanese

Arts & Innovation Frontier:3D Design / Music Theory

 

 

LWS offers three major tracks spanning eight departments, ensuring comprehensive and diverse course offerings that meet the needs of every student.

Whether pursuing academic excellence or striving for achievement in the arts, LWS provides a development path suited to you. At LWS, we offer all-around academic support and personalized guidance to help students achieve outstanding results in AP exams and lay a solid foundation for future college applications.

 

 

Ninth graders M and W earned perfect scores on their very first AP exams, while tenth graders refused to be outdone, with news of perfect scores in multiple subjects arriving one after another.

These results not only showcase the students' academic talent, but also highlight the remarkable success of our strategy to extend AP coursework to lower grade levels. We believe every child's potential needs to be nurtured early in the right soil. By bringing AP instruction down to ninth grade, we give students the opportunity to encounter and adapt to college-level coursework earlier. This strategy not only helps students build a solid academic foundation, but also ignites their passion for knowledge and spirit of exploration.

 

 

Our tiered cultivation system makes excellence a habit. While their peers are still exploring their direction, LWS students have already forged academic armor out of AP perfect-score medals.

This is not only a harvest of results, but an awakening ceremony for the genes of future leaders!

The glorious record of the 2025 AP global exams is both a peak testament to our students' academic strength and a milestone validation of our school's “early incubation system for top innovative talent.” From the unstoppable momentum of ninth graders earning perfect scores on their first attempt, to the cluster breakthroughs of tenth graders dominating multiple subjects, the genes of educational innovation pulse behind the data:

We firmly believe that the seeds of excellence must be planted deep in suited soil; we practice the conviction that the boundaries of academia should end only at the sky of a young person's heart.

With the sparks of 90 perfect scores now spreading like wildfire, LWS will continue to plow with curriculum and sow with craftsmanship, cultivating more world-changing roots in the fertile academic soil of the lower grades. Today's glory is not the finish line, but a footnote to the next journey: