The admission rates for Tianjin No. 1 Middle School, Yaohua Middle School, Nankai Middle School, and the Foreign Language School Affiliated to Tianjin International Studies University are all above 95%; the admission rates for Yangcun No. 1 Middle School, Xinhua Middle School, and Experimental Middle School are also above 90%.
In other words, as long as they are admitted to these high schools, more than 90% of students can be admitted to one institution.
We can also see from the picture above that even for some very average high schools, the admission rate can reach 20 to 30%. This is unimaginable for our Shandong candidates.
Second, Tianjin’s settlement threshold is relatively low and its educational resources are relatively abundant.
There are two main ways for people from other provinces to settle in Tianjin: points settlement and talent introduction.
Point-based settlement requires applicants to have paid social security or personal income taxes in Tianjin for more than three consecutive years, and have proof of stable residence in Tianjin for one consecutive year or more, as well as other academic and occupational requirements.
The main talent introduction is the Tianjin Haihe Talent Plan, including academic, qualification, skill, and entrepreneurial types. Among them, applicants with academic qualifications who have full-time undergraduate degrees must be no more than 40 years old and have no social security in other places.
Compared with Beijing and Shanghai, the conditions for settling in Tianjin and above are very low.
In addition, the admission rate of key universities in Liaoning, Jilin, Qinghai and other places is also very high, and the threshold for settlement is lower. However, Tianjin has better basic education resources and industrial conditions, so Tianjin also has an advantage compared with them.
Third, housing prices in Tianjin are relatively low.
According to data from the National Housing Price Market Platform, in May 2023, the average housing price in Tianjin was 25,700 yuan/㎡.
Among them, housing prices in the upper three districts of the city are relatively high, reaching 68,800 yuan/m2 in Heping District, 36,500 yuan/m2 in Hexi District, and 32,400 yuan/m2 in Nankai District; housing prices in the lower three districts of the city are medium, with housing prices in Hedong District, Hongqiao District, and Hebei District ranging from 21,200 yuan to 23,000 yuan/m2.
On the outskirts of the city, housing prices in Beichen District, Dongli District, Jinnan District, Jinghai District and other places are only more than 10,000 yuan/㎡.
(House prices in some areas of Tianjin)
3. When you settle in Tianjin, are you ready to give up your original job?
Judging from the above information, Tianjin can be said to be the best place to move if it is purely for children’s education.
But we would like to remind everyone: If you want to work in Tianjin, it is natural to move your household registration and student registration to Tianjin, and there is nothing wrong with it. If you move your household registration to Tianjin just for the education of your children, you will face many "roadblocks".
If you don't want to work in Tianjin, but want to move your household registration to Tianjin, the main way is the Haihe Talent Plan. Its educational and age requirements are as follows (just meet one of them):
1. Doctoral degree: There is no age limit. If you have social security for more than 1 month in Tianjin, you may be able to transfer files.
2. Graduate students: 45 years old and below, can study part-time, but must have a degree certificate.
3. Undergraduate degree: 40 years old and below, must be general higher education, full-time. You can pass courses without a degree certificate, but you must have a diploma. Self-study exams for adults are not allowed.
4. College: full-time, 50 years old and below + corresponding skill certificate.
5. Technical secondary school: full-time, 50 years old and below + corresponding skill certificate.
6. Certificates and titles (more difficult to test): Lawyer qualification certificate, CFA, actuary, FRM, CPA, tax accountant, registered architect, registered survey and design engineer, asset appraiser, notary, etc., deputy senior professional titles, no academic qualifications required, 50 and below.
7. Entrepreneurial and urgently needed talents who need to meet personal income tax exceeding RMB 100,000 per year in Tianjin, or recognized talents, are generally difficult to meet, and there is no academic qualification or age requirement.
The above conditions may seem friendly, but the key is that they come with social security requirements:
Regardless of the above situation, in principle, the applicant is required to have no social security in areas outside Tianjin. Bachelor degree or above, certificates and professional titles, Tianjin social security or file transfer is required for one month or more. College degree, Tianjin social security for one month or more is required. Technical secondary school, Tianjin social security for 1 year or more is required.
To sum up in one sentence: The Haihe Talent Plan is to attract talents. If you want to settle in Tianjin through the Haihe Talent Plan, you cannot have social security from other places. You also need to pay social security in Tianjin, or transfer your files to Tianjin.
This basically means that if you want to transfer your household registration to Tianjin, you have to give up your job in other places. Civil servants and employees of public institutions are basically out of luck, because it is impossible for them to transfer their files to Tianjin. Even if you work in a private enterprise, you still face many difficulties in terms of job transfer and social security.
Only the following groups are more suitable: freelancers, flexible workers, entrepreneurs, no constraints, if you want to cut off social security, you can cut off social security, and if you want to adjust your files, you can adjust your files.
4. Live in Tianjin for at least three years, preferably more than 7 years
After the household registration issue is resolved, there is the issue of going to school. And if you want your children to go to a good school in Tianjin, you need to pay a lot.
The core content of Tianjin's education reform in 2021 is: If you want to participate in Tianjin in Tianjin and enjoy Tianjin's high dividends, you must have "three years of Tianjin household registration + three years of Tianjin high school student status + three years of Tianjin high school enrollment."
This reform has plugged a major loophole: some candidates who had spent three years in high school in other provinces moved to Tianjin before the college entrance examination, turning Tianjin's talent introduction into a tool for college entrance examination immigration. After this reform, if a child wants to take the college entrance examination in Tianjin, he must live in Tianjin for three years.
Therefore, many people have proposed another plan: register for the Tianjin High School Entrance Examination in the third grade of junior high school, live on campus after passing the high school exam, and return to your hometown normally on weekends, without having to live in Tianjin.
This solution sounds great. However, many people now suggest that it is best not to let your children take the Tianjin High School Entrance Examination directly, because it is too late and will affect the children's high school entrance examination results. The reasons are as follows:
First, we need to adapt to the Tianjin exam questions.
Tianjin's high school entrance examination is an independent proposition, and its key knowledge system and key knowledge content are not exactly the same as those in other provinces, and even different from the teaching materials of some provinces. Taking the Tianjin High School Entrance Examination rashly will affect your children’s performance.
Second, sports performance will be affected.
There are 40 physical education points in the Tianjin High School Entrance Examination, 18 of which are ordinary points. Local candidates can basically get all 18 points. Candidates who return to Tianjin from other provinces will not have a normal score of 18 points, and all 40 points will be exam content.
As for the content of the physical examination, it is the same for local candidates and those returning to Tianjin. However, if local candidates get a guaranteed 18 points, the test content score will account for 22/40, while the test content score of the candidates returning to Tianjin will account for 40/40, so they must rely entirely on the exam.
Third, you need to make up for the college entrance examination.
At the junior high school level, it is compulsory to take the National College Entrance Examination. The Tianjin National College Entrance Examination tests geography and biology in the second grade of junior high school, and the ideological, moral, and history exams in the third grade of junior high school. If you go directly back to Tianjin to take the high school entrance examination in the third year of junior high school, you will need to take supplementary tests of geography and biology during the general examination. The addition of these two additional subjects will inevitably increase the pressure on students in the final review stage.
Fourth, there is no index student qualification
The enrollment plan of Tianjin’s high-quality high schools will allocate 50% of the quota as the enrollment plan for target students. If a student is qualified as a target student and chooses this school as his first choice when applying, the school will lower the student's score by 20 points.
In order to obtain and use the indicator student qualification in Tianjin, you must have a complete three-year junior high school registration, and a comprehensive evaluation will be carried out based on the results of the college entrance examination and the major examination results starting from the third year of junior high school. Going back to Tianjin directly to take the high school entrance examination in the third year of junior high school obviously does not qualify for this.
Fifth, Tianjin's high school entrance examination is also a test, one point is missing, and hundreds of people are missing.
The above four items will have an impact on students who directly return to Tianjin to take the high school entrance examination. Some people may say that my children are very good, so the impact is limited and there is no need to worry.
But in fact, the error tolerance rate for Tianjin’s high school entrance examination scores is very low. A difference of one point in the high school entrance examination score can lead to a gap of hundreds of people. Competition is particularly fierce in high- and mid-to-high segments.
Taking Tianjin's best high school "City Five" as an example, its enrollment status in the first two years is as follows:
The full score of Tianjin's 2021 and 2020 high school entrance examinations is 590 points, the physical education score is 30 points, and the test subjects are Chinese, mathematics, foreign languages, physics, and chemistry. Assuming you get full marks in physical education, if you want to be admitted to one of the five listed universities, you will only be deducted an average of about 6 points per subject. In the high school entrance examination mathematics, one multiple-choice question is worth 3 points, one fill-in-the-blank question is also worth 3 points, and two wrong questions are enough for 6 points.
Based on the above five points, many people have pointed out that it is risky to go directly back to Tianjin to take the high school entrance examination in the third year of junior high school.
So, how about transferring to Tianjin early in junior high school?
When you transfer to Tianjin in junior high school, you will basically be assigned to the bottom school in each district. ,
So, what about transferring to a private school?
Tianjin's private schools are very tight on places and basically do not allow transfer applications.
Going one step further, what about transferring to Tianjin in primary school?
Students in Tianjin cannot transfer to another school in the sixth grade, and they must transfer in the fifth to sixth grade at the latest.
In other words, if you really want your children to enjoy the best quality education in Tianjin, they need to transfer to Tianjin after the fifth grade of primary school at the latest. Students need to live in Tianjin for 7 years: one year of elementary school, three years of junior high school, and three years of high school.
5. The six districts in the city are the core, Heping, Hexi, and Nankai are the upper three districts, and Heping is the king.
Tianjin has 16 districts under its jurisdiction, but the six districts in the city have the best educational resources. Moreover, the high schools in the six districts of the city are only open to students from the six districts of the city. Applicants from the other 10 districts cannot apply for schools in the six districts of the city.
Therefore, if you want to study in the best junior high school or high school in Tianjin, you need to buy a house in the six districts of the city.
One exception is Haihe Education Park in Jinnan District, where junior high schools can apply for schools in the city's six districts. Therefore, the housing price of Haihe Education Park is the most expensive in Jinnan, with the current price basically above 20,000 yuan/㎡.
The six districts in Tianjin are also divided into upper three districts and lower three districts. The former has better educational resources, including Heping, Hexi, and Nankai, while the latter has slightly weaker educational resources, including Hedong District, Hebei District, and Hongqiao District.
Among the upper three districts, the Peace District is the strongest. However, it is also the most difficult to settle down and go to school in Heping District.
In Heping District, whether you are enrolling in a primary school or transferring to a primary school, you must hold the property for three years or more from the time of purchase, so that you can study in a nearby primary school in Heping District. Moreover, if you want to participate in the first lottery for primary school promotion in Heping District, you are not allowed to sell your house midway through the primary school stage. Otherwise, you can only accept the overall arrangement to the "bottom" school.
This means that if you want to study in primary and secondary schools in Heping District, you must hold the purchased real estate for a long time.
Of course, everything cannot be too perfect. Tianjin is so big, and children in other jurisdictions are also living well, so there is no need to blindly pursue peaceful areas. Each jurisdiction in Tianjin has different admissions policies, transfer policies, and housing-school linking policies. Everyone needs to carefully screen when settling in, enrolling in school, or buying a house.
6. Tianjin has a large housing stock and a worrying population trend
If you want your children to go to school in Tianjin, usually the parents of the children first settle in a collective household in Tianjin, then buy a house in Tianjin, move the parents' collective household to the house, and move the children's household registration here as well, and only then can they enjoy Tianjin's education dividends.
But we would like to remind everyone that the real estate market in Tianjin is very different from that in Jinan.
As a municipality directly under the Central Government, Tianjin has a high degree of industrialization and urbanization rate, and has a large real estate stock in the city.
In Tianjin's property market, second-hand housing transactions occupy an important position, and the number of transactions even exceeds that of the new housing market.
We have collected housing transaction data in Tianjin in recent years. The annual number of transactions in the new housing market in 2019-2021 is between 107,000 and 113,900. In 2022, affected by the lockdown, it will drop to about 68,000.
In the second-hand housing market, the number of transactions between 2019 and 2021 is between 119,000 and 135,000.
Walking on the streets of Tianjin, you will see a large number of old and small communities, with multi-story buildings from the 1980s and 1990s. The pressure for urban innovation is very high.
Tianjin’s population situation is not optimistic either.
Tianjin has a high degree of aging. As of 2020, among the six districts in the city, Hebei District and Hongqiao District, the proportion of elderly people over 65 years old accounts for more than 20%, and Nankai District, Hexi District, and Hedong District account for more than 19%. Heping District may be due to its educational resources that attract a large number of migrant populations, and the degree of aging is slightly lower, with the proportion of elderly people over 65 years old accounting for 15.7%.
Moreover, Tianjin's birth population has shown a sharp downward trend in recent years. Its birth population reached about 119,000 in 2017, and has dropped to 73,000 in 2021. Its population birth rate continues to decline, falling to 5.3% by 2021 (national data is 7.52%, Jinan data is 8.21%), and the natural population growth rate is negative for the first time in 40 or 50 years.
In recent years, Tianjin’s Haihe Talents Program has attracted a large number of people, including many who migrated for their children’s education. However, this is still not enough compared with Tianjin's overall population situation. Tianjin's permanent population has continued to decline in recent years, falling from 14.43 million in 2016 to 13.63 million in 2022.
7. Tianjin’s current housing price situation, polarization, 28th market trends
Based on the above macro situation, the overall housing price trend in Tianjin is not very optimistic. At present, Tianjin's housing prices are showing a 28-year trend: housing prices in most areas are sluggish, while housing prices in some areas are rising strongly.
According to data from the Zhongzhi Research Institute, in May 2023, the price of second-hand houses in Tianjin was around 24,587 yuan/㎡, and house prices were generally trending downward.
Among them, housing prices in Heping, Nankai and Hexi were relatively strong. Housing prices in Heping rose by 6.53% year-on-year, and housing prices in Hexi rose by 2.73% year-on-year. Although housing prices in Nankai fell by 1.04% year-on-year, they rose by 0.1% month-on-month, which is considered strong.
The trend of housing prices in most other areas was average, with housing prices in many areas falling by more than 5% compared with the same period last year.
As mentioned earlier, among the districts in Tianjin, Heping, Hexi and Nankai have the best educational resources. In the real estate market, house prices in these three areas are also the most expensive and the strongest. It is no exaggeration to say that Tianjin’s housing prices are supported by school districts.
8. Preferred school district, buy a new house for permanent stay, or buy a small house for short stay
The school district is the greatest value in the Tianjin property market. Therefore, the first choice for buying a house in Tianjin is a house with a high-quality school district.
Heping District, Hexi District and Nankai District can be considered first. Then there is Haihe Education Park. Although it is located in Jinnan District, it can participate in the high school entrance examination of the six districts in the city and has Nankai's educational facilities. It is an important destination for many non-local parents migrating to Tianjin.
In terms of housing selection, if you plan to live in Tianjin for a long time, it is recommended to give priority to new or sub-new houses.
Because the stock of second-hand houses in Tianjin is too large, with more than 170,000 units currently listed. Moreover, many second-hand houses in Tianjin are too old and have average living quality. In the long run, the number of second-hand housing listings in Tianjin will continue to increase, and old and dilapidated houses will become increasingly unpopular and unsuitable for long-term holding.
There is a huge gap in the price of new houses in Tianjin. The better the educational resources, the more expensive the house prices are.
Among them, there are almost no new houses in Heping District, and their prices are easily 60,000 to 70,000 yuan/m2; there are some new houses for sale in Hexi District and Nankai District, and the prices are basically above 40,000 to 50,000 yuan/m2. New houses in Haihe Education Park are selling quickly, and there are currently some properties for sale with prices above 20,000 yuan/㎡. However, Haihe Education Park is located in a peripheral cluster, and the urban facilities are still far behind those in the urban area.
If you plan to live in Tianjin for a short period of time, it is recommended to buy a small school district house or even a "schoolbag room".
How small is a room in a small school district in Tianjin? It can be only one to twenty square meters, or even less than 10 square meters. This type of housing is usually public housing and requires payment of rent, but it can be settled without delaying children's schooling. It is called a schoolbag room.
However, I would like to remind everyone that Heping District has requirements for the area of apartments. If the apartment is less than 10 square meters, the police need to come to check the living conditions.
(Split information on the Tianjin second-hand housing website)
9. Public property, enterprise property, and private property. Enterprise property cannot be settled in collective households.
At this point, I need to spread a little common sense to everyone: Tianjin’s residential properties are of various types, mainly including private properties, public properties, and corporate properties.
Privately owned houses are our common commercial houses. The property rights belong to individuals. They can be purchased by collective households or local households. They can get loans, settle down, and go to school.
For public housing, the property rights of the house are jointly owned. Houses where individuals only have the right to live and pay rent to the housing management station on time can be bought by collective households/local households.
Public housing can be in complete sets, and the property rights can be purchased for such houses. Public housing may not be a complete set, but one of the houses may be torn down. This is called splitting.
In the Tianjin real estate market, split rooms are a "product" with a very high turnover rate. They cannot be purchased as property rights, and the area is usually very small, even less than 10 square meters. The total price is also very low, but they can be used to live in and go to school, so they are also called "schoolbag rooms."
Enterprise property means that the property rights of the house are owned by the enterprise or development company, and individuals only have the right to use the house and pay rent to the owner of the house on schedule. The vast majority of corporate properties cannot be purchased with property rights. Local household registrations can be relocated, but collective households cannot settle down. Only a very small number of corporate properties can be purchased with property rights and can be settled as collective households. Everyone needs to check carefully when buying a house.
Of course, if you buy a house in an old school district or a small one, the living quality will be very poor. If you are buying a flat, most of them only have one house, which is fine for children to study and use, but the family will definitely not be able to live in it.
Therefore, after purchasing such a house, living is still a problem. A better way is to rent a house near the school for transitional use.
All of the above are efforts to pursue the best quality education. However, Tianjin is as big as Tianjin, and only a small part of the families can enjoy education in Heping, Nankai and Hexi.
If you choose to lie down and not roll up, you can also consider houses in other areas of Tianjin. In fact, as long as children can study in Tianjin, even in other areas of Tianjin, the pressure for children to enter school will be easier than in most places in Shandong.
