The predecessor of Guangdong Experimental Middle School (hereinafter referred to as Shengshi) began in the 11th year of Tongzhi (1872) of the Qing Dynasty and the Guangzhou Gezhi Academy established in the 14th year of Guangxu (1888) of the Qing Dynasty, and was officially named Guangdong Experimental Middle School in 1987.
Provincial Key Middle School is directly under the leadership of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Education, and has successively trained seven academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, including Deng Ximing, Huang Yaoxiang, Fan Haifu, Cai Ruixian, Jiang Boju, Cen Kefa, and Zhong Nanshan. Since 1999, the provincial high school entrance examination has produced "champions" every year, and the average scores of each subject in the high school entrance examination and college entrance examination have ranked in the forefront of Guangzhou. In the 2017 high school entrance examination, the province also achieved excellent results, with 15 candidates scoring more than 750 points, accounting for 5% of the city's candidates with more than 750 points, and 225 candidates scoring higher than 698 points, accounting for 45% of the candidates in the school, and the number of high scores is outstanding.
The junior high school campus of the province is located on Zhongshan 4th Road in Guangzhou, with convenient transportation, and the students are all day students. The campus is close to the former site of the Guangdong Peasant Movement Training Institute sponsored by Comrade Mao Zedong, the Guangzhou Library, the Guangdong Provincial Museum, the Zhongshan Library and the Lu Xun Memorial Hall, which have a strong cultural atmosphere. The campus has gymnasiums, football fields, basketball courts, indoor swimming pools and other sports venues, as well as modern teaching places such as simulated ecological rooms, which can meet the needs of students for various cultural and sports activities.
As of 2014, there were 292 faculty members in the province. Among them, there are 5 special teachers, 1 senior middle school teacher, and 156 senior middle school teachers; 5 people received doctoral degrees and 176 people received master's degrees; Another 20 teachers have won honorary titles at or above the provincial level. In addition, the provincial education method is still relatively traditional, with a large amount of homework, brushing questions and high scores for hard work.
As one of the high-quality degrees of public junior high schools, the provincial key class has always been mysterious, there is not much relevant information, and the enrollment method is not as blatant as the majority of affiliated high schools. It is understood that its enrollment basically adopts the method of point recruitment, asking for a list of top students from several primary schools in the district, and then contacting the students on its own and throwing an olive branch to them. For each grade, the province has set up 2~3 key classes, which are relatively hidden, and the teaching content is mainly based on Olympiad mathematics.
The province pays attention to comprehensive quality education, takes the curriculum as a platform, and relies on the community, and the school has made brilliant achievements in the three major fields of science and technology education, sports and art.
Since 2007, the province has participated in the National Youth Science and Technology Innovation Competition, which is one of the most awarded schools in the country and the first batch of schools to win the title of "Top Ten National Science and Technology Education Innovation Schools". At the 64th, 65th and 66th Nuremberg International Invention Exhibition, the province won a total of 5 gold, 8 silver and 8 bronze medals, which is the best school for the Chinese delegation. In the fields of astronomical education, environmental education, and informatics competitions, the province has also won gold and silver in China.
The province is one of the middle schools that has produced the most world champions in sports in the country. The school has nine high-level sports teams, including a badminton team, a radio direction finding team, a table tennis team, a swimming team, a tennis team, an aerobics team, a basketball team, a track and field team, and a martial arts team. The badminton team has made outstanding achievements in the Guangdong Province, the National and World Student Badminton Championships, and has represented China in the World Student Badminton Championships three times, winning 10 of the 12 gold medals. Therefore, the province was selected as the National Badminton Traditional Project School and the National Science and Technology Sports Traditional School (the first batch), as well as the Guangdong Province Traditional Project School for badminton, swimming, and track and field.
The choir of the province was established as early as 1952, won a number of gold medals in the World Choir Festival, and ranked third in the overall ranking of the World Choir Festival; Participated in the second, third and fourth national primary and secondary school students' art exhibitions and performances, and won the first prize; Participated in the Guangzhou Primary and Secondary School Students' Choir Festival and created a proud record of "12 consecutive championships".
