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San Diego Hua Xia Chinese School (Riverside Campus) 
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Address: John W. North High School
1550 3rd St.
Riverside, CA 92507
Telephone: (951) 888-1118
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Web address: http://riversidechinese.org/
 
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Address: P. O. Box 1400
Loma Linda,  CA  92354
Email: riversidechinese@hotmail.com
Telephone: (951) 888-1118
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San Diego Hua Xia Chinese School (Riverside Campus) is one of the four campuses of San Diego Hua Xia Chinese School (SDHXCS), which was founded in 1997 by a group of Chinese scholars from mainland China, as a non-profit, non-religious, and non-political educational organization. Focusing on Chinese language education, the school teaches simplified Chinese and Pinyin in Saturday/Sunday classes. With current enrollment of over 1,000, the school has a main campus and three branches with 70 Chinese classes, 40 enrichment classes, 8 sport teams, and various clubs organized by the school parent committee. Students can receive foreign language credit at many local public school districts and private schools.

SDHXCS is the only school certified by the College Board to offer AP Chinese class in San Diego.

In 2009, SDHXCS was selected as a Chinese Education Model School in the U.S.A. by the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council, China.

For more information about San Diego Hua Xia Chinese School and its four campuses, check out
San Diego Hua Xia Chinese School (Headquarters)
http://www.cal.org/CALWebDB/Heritage/ProfileDetails.aspx?id=673
Program origin:
The San Diego Huaxia Chinese School was founded in 1997. The Riverside Campus was established as a campus of  San Diego Hua Xia Chinese School in fall 2005.
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    Program type:  Community-Based
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    Total contact hours per week: 3
    Times per week classes meet: 1
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    John W. North High School, 1550 3rd St., Riverside, CA 92507
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    Comments:
    The profile of San Diego Hua Xia Chinese School (Riverside Campus) was published by Xiaoni Zhang on April 17, 2012.