Daria Duncan-Weber founded Taihu International School in 1999 for the needs of the foreign community in and around Wuxi for a true international school with international teachers and an international curriculum. The school remains privately owned and run. Current Chinese law stipulates that admission is for children from Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and overseas countries who hold passports and residence permits recognized as foreign by the Chinese government. The school is fully authorized to offer all three IB Programmes - The Primary Years Programme (PYP), the Middle Years Programme (MYP) and the Diploma Programme (DP). Students are equipped with the skills needed to transfer to other educational systems and to be lifelong learners.