Yuanling Primary School was founded in 1984. In 2002, the Futian District Party Committee and the District Government merged it with Yuanxi Primary School and Yuandong Primary School to form Yuanling Primary School, which was named the Headquarters, the First and the Second respectively. In 2012, the three departments of Yuanling were split into independent schools: Yuanling Headquarters, Yuanling Foreign Chinese Primary School, and Yuanling Experimental Primary School. This list and the "Yuanling Primary School" in the usual sense refer to the Yuanling headquarters, and the teaching quality and hardware facilities of the three schools are also the best.

In the eyes of parents, Yuanling Primary School is an old school with strong teachers and first-class quality. The "old brand" here stems from its long-term good reputation, although it is not as long as Shenzhen Primary School, and there is no Liyuan and Luoling dazzling results, but the image of excellent learning style and stable grades has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. It has ranked first in the entrance examination of Shenzhen Foreign Chinese School in recent years; According to incomplete statistics, the number of people admitted to Yuanling Primary School in 2017 by Shenzhen Middle School 3 2 was as many as 9, second only to Liyuan Primary School. In the Olympiad competition, Yuan Ling has also won the gold medal for five consecutive years.

The dazzling results are naturally due to the excellent and responsible teachers. There are 30 teaching classes in Yuanling, with 5 classes per grade, with about 45 students in each class; There are 102 teaching staff, including 68 senior primary school teachers, 83% full-time teachers with bachelor's degree or above, 2 special teachers, and more than 40 famous teachers above the district level. After students are promoted to the senior year, the school will organize the outstanding students to enter the training class to improve their test-taking ability.

The academic burden in Yuanling is not heavy, and some parents report that homework can usually be completed in less than half an hour. However, many students will take extra tuition outside of school. The school pays more attention to the cultivation of moral, intellectual and physical aspects. Football is a traditional strength of Yuen Ling, and competitions are held every year within the school. Its school team won four consecutive championships in the 2014-2017 Futian District Competition, won the Shenzhen Championship in 2015 and 2017, and won the runner-up in the 2017 Youth Football Tournament of the Chinese Academy of Education Sciences. In addition, the robotics team of Yuanling Primary School also won the first prize for primary school students in the 2017 Botball (an international robotics competition for students), and participated in the secondary school competition as a primary school student and won the championship of the United Team Competition.

The school has a lunch class, but it cannot meet the needs of all students during lunch break at the same time, so there is a homework class. It needs to be selected by parents at the beginning of each semester and cannot be changed before the next semester. The surrounding school districts include Lihu Flower Garden (79,000-84,000 yuan/㎡), Yuanling New Village (74,500-99,000 yuan/㎡), and Hongling Middle School dormitory buildings, but they are all "old and dilapidated" in the mid-90s and before, and the housing is very tight. The above price information is as of March 2018.