This high school is located in the center of the city but has a quiet environment. It is also one of the first experimental and exemplary high schools designated by the Shanghai Education Commission. The school presently has 28 classes with 850 students. 

In 2013, it became an IB-DP (International Baccalaureate – Diploma Programme) candidate school, and is now on its way to becoming an IB World School.

Following the idea of “student-oriented education and school-based development,” the high school maintains its goal of providing quality education with distinctive characteristics and aspires to be first-rate. In promoting the development of quality education, it keeps to the scaffolding of students’ moral characters and the refinement of their tastes and manners. As a renowned school with famous teachers and strong subjects, it strives to provide students with whatever resources they need to broaden their viewpoints and increase their exposure to expertise, implementing the interactive process of “curriculum, classroom, and projects” with an aim of enhancing students’ abilities “to learn, to grow, and to create.”

The high school boasts a beautiful and amenity-laden campus in the central district of Shanghai. Sports facilities include a gymnasium, a multi-function sports ground, an indoor swimming pool, table tennis rooms, and basketball and volleyball courts. Mind Plaza is an open and flexible learning space intended to stimulate different forms of teaching and learning, and thus encourages more interaction, communication, and cooperation. Students and staff have access to science laboratories, such as the Automatic Control Lab, Energy Lab, and Lego Robot Lab. Additionally, the school has set up a psychological consulting room and other dedicated classrooms, like the Static Model Society and Odyssey of the Mind. The school also provides accommodations for some students.

This high school is an experimental base for the cultivation of creativity in Shanghai high school students. It stresses the training of students’ abilities and sees to it that the students’ interests and innovative spirits are brought into play. The school has set up more than 50 research classes and over 30 student societies are active on campus. Most societies, like the OM Society, Robot Society, school basketball team, school band, and school chorus have repeatedly won national or city championships. Talented students have been awarded the Shupin Scholarship and the Tang Junyuan Scholarship.

In recent years, the school has been increasingly internationalized. Students are encouraged to broaden their world view and arouse a sense of international conscientiousness. The school has been involved in a series of international projects for education, such as the UN Population Education Project, UN Youth Reproductive Health Project, Young Master Program (YMP) – an environmental project jointly helped by the Environmental Protection Agencies of China and Sweden – and “The Third I (Eye)” Design Project, initiated by the Consulate General of the Netherlands. Besides those, the school had its curriculum largely enriched by the introduction of the course “Looking Back to the History and Looking Forward to the Future,” designed conjointly in the U.S. A-level and AP courses were recently introduced to the school’s international experimental class so as to provide students with all-round internationalized education. Meanwhile, the school has established friendly contacts with schools in the United States, Germany, Great Britain, Australia, Japan, and Hong Kong, all through which students from the school have the chance to engage in international exchanges.

The school was awarded the National Advanced Unit Award for “the creation of spiritual civilization,” and was credited by the State Education Department as the model school for “Ruling school by law.”