Residential Life

NCPA accepts both day and boarding students, although 99% of our student population boards either during the week or full time. Most of our students are from the Pearl River Delta region, so they live on campus during the week and return home for the weekend either on the optional shuttle service, by parent pickup, or on the Guangzhou metro's line four. The boarding program is managed by a third party, SunGlint. Underclassmen live in dormitories on the new campus, with separate buildings for male and female students. Rooms come in double or quadruple occupancy with single beds, though desks and wardrobes. Each floor has shared shower rooms and bathrooms—two for boys and three for girls—as well as a lounge. Seniors reside in high‑rise apartments at the northeast corner of campus. Each apartment consists of two bedrooms—one single and one double—sharing a living room, dining area, shower bathroom, and balcony. Every bedroom is furnished with a wardrobe, bookcase, bedside table, desk, and a single bed.

Students have three choices for on-campus dining and snacking: our two-storey cafeteria, the La Barista coffee shop, and the Q Store convenience store. These venues accept payment using students' contactless ID cards, which they can top up using cash.

Weekly Cafeteria Menu

Parents may elect for an optional school bus service to bring students to school on Sunday evenings and back home on Friday afternoons. This service is available to the Tianhe, Panyu, and Haizhu districts of Guangzhou; the Shunde and Nanhai districts of Foshan; the Bao'an and Nanshan districts of Shenzhen; and the Nancheng area of Dongguan. For those parents wishing to pick up their children by car, our campus is about a 10-minute drive from both the Nansha exit of the Dongguan-Foshan expressway and the Humen Bridge.