石家庄市第四十二中学（河北国际学校）是1993年是政府投资兴建的一所国办中学。学校占地87870平方米。现有106个教学班，400名教职工，在校生5600余人。2002年加挂“河北国际学校”校牌。2003年被省教育厅批准为省级示范性高中。2018年成立河北国际学校教育集团。 

建校以来，一直秉承“悦天性，育英才”的办学理念。以“释放多元潜能，成就卓越人生”为校训，以“多语种特色，外向型教育，国际化交流”为办学目标，不断开拓思路，扩充国际交流项目，形成了独特的办学风格。

2007年，经河北省教育厅推荐，四十二中被列为“中国对外汉语推广基地学校”（全国百所，河北3所）。

连续十二届获得“石家庄市文明单位”、 “河北省文明单位”。积极探索发展之路，逐步形成科研兴校的办学特色，被评为“河北省教育科研示范学校”。坚持面向全体学生，中高考成绩年年创新高，连续七年被新华区政府命名为“初中教学质量优胜学校”，连续五年被市教育局命名为“高中教学质量先进单位”。

为迎接我国加入WTO后给基础教育带来的机遇和挑战，加增中外交流，2002年5月经河北省教育厅批准，我校加挂“河北国际学校”校牌。 新的校区不仅拥有一流的教学设施，如：功能齐全的多媒体教室，河北一流的网络中心，先进的实验室，现代化的图书馆，还有干净整洁的公寓及餐厅。

河北国际学校是河北省外国语学校中的名校，拥有一支高素质教师队伍。目前学校有国家级优秀教师6人，省级优秀教师6人，省级优秀课获得者7人，市级优秀教师、优秀课获得者占教师人数的50%左右。到目前我校已选送24位教师到国外留学考察，河北国际学校自1999年每年聘请8--10名外籍教师执教英语，2002年又聘请了法国教师开设了法语课。学校已送出116名学生获得全额奖学金出国留学；1999—2006年我校在中国国际教育交流协会和美国英语协会协助下成功的举办了6届“中华营”。另外，我校还组织了赴日访问团、赴澳冬令营、赴英夏令营、中法交换班项目、中美交换班项目、中意交换班项目等。 学校每年接待各国代表团20次以上与多个国家院校建立了友好关系。河北国际学校培养的将是具有中国灵魂和世界眼光的国际人才。

从2002年秋季我校国际部开始招生，招收各国学生来我校就读，目前我校有来自日本、冰岛、奥地利、意大利、德国、泰国、韩国的留学生20名。学校设专门的汉语教师，由有对外汉语教学经验的汉语教师任教，HSK汉语等级考试通过率达到90%。学校针对高三学生的不同层次，由学校各学科教师单独辅导，为升入重点大学作准备。

河北国际学校（石家庄市第42中学）2006年成为AFS国际交流项目骨干学校，2007年成为中国汉办国际汉语中小学实验基地学校。学校荣获全国优秀孔子课堂、AFS国际文化交流项目金牌学校、“中美千校携手项目”示范校、“北京外国语大学国际化人才培养基地联盟”单位、河北省国际教育交流先进集体等荣誉。 

河北国际学校教育集团将以全新的办学理念、独特的办学体制、灵活的办学模式、突出的国际特色、优秀的教师队伍、优越的办学条件、科学的管理体系朝着全国千所示范学校的行列迈进。河北国际学校教育集团将成为河北一流、全国领先的名校。

Brief Introduction for the Hebei International School

Shijiazhuang No.42 Middle School (Hebei International School) is a public school founded by the municipal government in 1993.   In 2002, the name “Hebei International School” was given. In October 2003, it was approved as a Provincial Demonstrative Middle School by the Provincial Department of Education.   In 2018, Hebei International School Education Group was established.

Shijiazhuang No.42 Middle School is located in 42, Wenyuen Street, Shijiazhuang with an area of 87870 square meters. It has 106 classes and more than 400 faculty members, 9 of whom are amongst the national outstanding teachers and 16 of whom are amongst the provincial outstanding teachers. Furthermore 25% of the teachers are winners of the city-level “excellent course teachers”. 

Since its founding, the school has been carrying out “Enlighten Nature, Nurture Talent” as the school’s mission and “Release The Multiple Potentials, Achieve A Brilliant Life” as the schools motto. 

We have been honored for three successive years as “An Outstanding Collective Advanced in Ideology and Cultural Civilization in Shijiazhuang City” and “An Outstanding Collective Advanced in Ideology and Cultural Civilization in Hebei”. We are working actively to develop and carry out research for the enhancement of teaching, so we have been awarded the honor of “Hebei Model School of Scientific Research”. We stick to the ideology of “All for students” and our results in the high school entrance examinations and college entrance examinations are getting better and better year by year, so we have been honored as “The School with the Best Teaching for Junior High School” for seven successive years by the Government of Xinhua District and as “The School Advanced in Senior Teaching” for five successive years respectively by the Municipal Education Bureau. 

China’s entry into the WTO has brought both opportunities and challenges to education and promoted international cultural exchanges between China and other countries. In May 2002, the Hebei Education Committee gave the school another name as Hebei International School. So far, a 140-Mu new school campus has been built with the investment of one hundred million RMB. The new school campus has well-equipped classrooms, Multi-functional computer rooms, the first-class network centre in the province, advanced labs, modern libraries, clean and tidy dormitories and cafeteria.

Hebei International School is famous as one of the best foreign language schools in Hebei Province. The teachers working in our school are highly qualified. Six of them win the title of state-level advanced teachers. Six of them win the title of province-level advanced teachers. Seven teachers have been awarded in provincial teaching competitions. City-level advanced teachers and the winners in teaching competitions take up fifty percent of the faculty. Up to date, twenty-four teachers have been abroad for exchange programmes. From 1999, the school employs eight to ten foreign teachers to teach English every year. In 2002, French language began to be taught by French teachers from France. Till now, one hundred and sixteen students have continued their studies in many foreign countries by public funds or at their own expense. With the support of the China International Educational Exchange Federation and American English Association, Camp China has been carried out six times successfully in our school. Besides, our school has sent students to visit Japan and organized Winter Australia Camp, Summer UK Camp. We also participate in Sino-France, Sino-America and Sino-Italy exchange students programmes. Each year more than twenty delegations from different countries come to our school for a formal visit. We have built sister-school relationships with each other. Our school inspires students to develop all that is worthy and to become talents with the Chinese spirit and world wide vision. 

From the autumn of 2002, the International Department of our school started to enroll and admit students from other countries. At present, we have twenty foreign students from Japan, Iceland, Austria, Italy, Germany, Thailand, South Korea. We have specialized Chinese teachers who have experience in teaching Chinese as a foreign language. The rate of passing HSK (Chinese Proficiency Examination) can be up to 90 percent. For senior three students, according to their different levels, the school arranges teachers of various subjects to tutor them to prepare for the entrance examinations to the key universities. In 2006, Hebei International School (Shijiazhuang No. 42 Middle School) became the backbone schools of AFS international exchange programs. In 2007, the school was awarded School Base for Chinese International Promotion by the Office of Chinese Language Council International.

The school  has won the honors of national excellent Confucius Classroom, gold medal School of AFS international cultural exchange project, demonstration school of China US thousand schools cooperation project, unit of international talent training base alliance of Beijing Foreign Studies University, and advanced group of International Education Exchange in Hebei Province.

With a new school-running idea, unique school-running system, flexible school-running model, featuring in international exchanges, excellent faculty, well-equipped facility, scientific management, our school is striding into the group of Thousand Model Schools in China. Surely, our school can do it.