In Shenzhen, the "5 1 top school" ranks in the first echelon of junior high school. Among them, "5" refers to the five famous schools in Shenzhen, including Shenzhen Foreign School, Shenzhen Middle School, Experimental School, Senior School, and Baiwai; "1" refers to the High School Affiliated to South China Normal University.
Whether it is the results of the high school entrance examination or the reputation of parents, Shenzhen Foreign Chinese School (i.e. "Shenzhen Foreign School") is the first public junior high school in the city. In recent years, the private school in Longgang District Baihe Foreign Chinese School (hereinafter referred to as "Baiwai"), which has the highest results in the city, also has a background in Shenzhen Foreign Language, and its predecessor is Shenzhen Foreign Language Branch, which began to run an independent school in 2014.
Founded in 1990, Shenzhen Foreign Language is a key school directly under the Municipal Education Bureau. In addition to English, it also offers courses in Japanese, French, German, Spanish and Russian, making it one of the schools with the largest number of foreign languages in China. As of 2017, Shenzhen Foreign Language University has a total of one school and five departments, covering primary school, junior high school, high school and international department, making it one of the schools with the largest variety of schools in Shenzhen's basic education.
Generally speaking, the average score of the school's high school entrance examination can more accurately reflect its strength, but most of the junior high schools in Shenzhen will not publish the average score, can not be completely counted, and the Shenzhen recruitment network every year announced the "high school admission list", can query the junior high school students are admitted to high schools, so according to the four large, eight and other ratios of the school ranking in Shenzhen came into being. The ratios of the Big Four and the Big Eight can be regarded as the repetition rate and undergraduate rate of the college entrance examination. In Shenzhen, the "Big Four" refers to the four municipal high schools, while the "Big Eight" mostly includes one district school in Futian, Luohu, Nanshan and Bao'an districts.
From 2012 to 2017, the results of the Shenzhen Foreign School Entrance Examination ranked among the top two in the city, and the four major rates were between 45%~61%. In 2017, the number of students admitted to the school was 396, of which 179 were admitted to the Big Four, with a rate of 45.2%; 224 students were admitted to the Eight Universities, with a rate of 56.57%; 232 students were admitted to the top 10, with a rate of 58.59%. All rates ranked second in the city.
It is worth mentioning that the enrollment of Shenzhen Foreign Language Junior High School has the nature of selection, and the examination form covers lottery, interview, written test, computer-based test, etc., although the form changes every year, but the selection mechanism of "the best of the best" remains unchanged, so it is not surprising that the results of the examination are so dazzling. In addition, Shenwai only brings together Niu Wa from Futian and Luohu districts, so compared with schools in Futian and Luohu districts, Nanshan District has an advantage in the ranking of high school entrance examination results, but in fact, these three districts have concentrated the best quality educational resources in Shenzhen.
In September 2003, the junior high school and high school of Shenzhen Foreign School were run separately, and the junior high school headquarters is still located at the original site of Hongli Road, Futian District. Because it is located in the central area of Futian, where every inch of land is valuable, and as an old campus, its campus area is small, but it has a variety of facilities, including basketball courts, football fields, table tennis tables, and some fitness equipment, and every day from 4:30 to 5 o'clock in the afternoon for exercise time, and the classrooms are equipped with air conditioning.
There are no key classes, and there are a total of 12 classes in each grade. In 2017, for example, classes 1 to 10 were English, classes 11 and 12 were minor language classes (one class for German and French, one class for Japanese and Spanish), and 10 students for Russian were assigned to 10 classes together with English, but there were slight differences in the number of students enrolled each year.
The English class is an English-based course, with 7 hours per week in the first year of junior high school and 6 hours per week in the second and third years of junior high school. In addition, the English class also needs to choose a minor language as a minor course, with 1 class hour per week. Students in the English class are free to choose to take the high school entrance examination, and are not required to stay in the high school.
Because you can go directly to Shenzhen Foreign High School, the small language class of Shenzhen Foreign Language Junior High School has always been favored by parents. The main course of the Junior Language Class is the student's chosen language, with 8 lessons per week. As a minor course, English is taught 4 hours per week in the first year of junior high school, and 3 hours per week in the second and third years of junior high school. Students are required to study the selected minor language course for 6 years and cannot change it for any reason. Students in the small language class must take the high school entrance examination, and the foreign language subjects of the high school entrance examination are the selected minor languages, and if they do not reach the direct promotion line, the high school needs to pay a fee of 10,000 yuan per year.
Students in minority language classes have more opportunities to be admitted to the college entrance examination (Beijing Language and Culture University, etc.), and at the same time, they can choose their own foreign language in the college entrance examination. However, students in the junior high school class have a relatively large number of junior high school hours, and two days a week leave school later than other classes. In addition, according to the news of mainstream private educational institutions, Shenzhen Foreign Language will soon cancel the policy of going straight to high school for small language classes.
In terms of English, Shenzhen Foreign Language implements small class teaching, which divides the original class into two small classes of AB, and the classroom forms are rich and diverse, and students are often required to perform English short plays. From the perspective of overall teaching, the lectures of teachers are relatively simple, and the progress is not fast or slow, but the exam is difficult, and the next stage of knowledge needs to be learned in advance during the holidays. Since the school does not have key classes, there are top students in each class, and the learning atmosphere is strong, and it is common for students to make up classes outside the school. According to the students, the homework of Shenzhen Foreign School is less than that of the other four famous schools, and parents said that their children can generally complete their homework around 22:30, and the homework sometimes needs to be signed by parents.
In the first and second stages of junior high school, the vast majority of students from Shenzhen University said that they were not under much pressure, and the school had an ancient style club, a Japanese culture club, an animation club and a street dance club to participate. The annual Arts Festival, Science Festival, Sports Festival, Food Festival and Club Day are popular with students and make students proud to mention the number of activities. The school is relatively loose in terms of management, many students bring mobile phones to school, and parents are also actively involved in school management, and the parent group is very active. The canteen serves brunch, the quality of the dishes is relatively average, and students rest on the table in the classroom during the lunch break.
