There are many well-known private junior high schools in Baiyun District, but there are not many public junior high schools that are recognized as particularly good, and the most popular one is Guangzhou No. 2 Foreign Chinese School (referred to as Second Foreign School). The school went through the stages of Taihe Middle School, Qianjin Middle School (1956-1968), Guangzhou No. 77 Middle School (1968-2003), Guangzhou Peiying Middle School Taihe Campus (affiliated foreign Chinese school) (2003-2013), etc., and was officially renamed Guangzhou No. 2 Foreign Chinese School in 2013, which is the only public foreign Chinese complete middle school in Baiyun District.
In the 2017 high school entrance examination, the second foreign school did not announce its specific results, but we can query the top 20 schools in the first model of junior high school in Baiyun District in 2017, and the second foreign school ranked fourth, with a difference of about 20 points from the first-ranked private junior high school Baiyun Guangya. In 2015, when the average score of the high school entrance examination was announced, she ranked third among the Chinese schools in the city with an average score of 703 points (two schools did not publish the results).
Located in Taihe Town, Baiyun District, the school covers an area of nearly 70,000 square meters, with a total of about 48 teaching classes including junior and senior high schools. The campus has teaching buildings, dormitory buildings, laboratory buildings, administrative buildings, art buildings, science buildings, libraries and a canteen that can accommodate 2,400 students at the same time. At the same time, there are plastic track and field fields, artificial turf football fields, basketball courts, badminton courts, gymnastics equipment areas and other sports venues; All classrooms are equipped with multimedia teaching platforms and electronic whiteboards. The four functional areas of the campus teaching area, living area, sports area and experimental area are clearly divided.
In terms of teachers, the team of foreign language teachers is the most prominent. As of 2013, there are 23 English teachers, 1 French teacher, 1 German teacher, including 5 senior teachers, 5 members of the city and district center group, and teachers under the age of 35 have obtained the TKT certificate of Cambridge University or the English language teaching certificate of the City University of New York. Including teachers of foreign languages, Chinese, mathematics and other subjects, teachers from the second foreign language have been commended at the national and municipal levels, and many of them have been awarded the honors of municipal backbone teachers and top ten teachers.
Similar to Tianhe Foreign Chinese School, the second foreign language implements English small class teaching, dividing the original class into two English small classes, each with about 23 students, to strengthen the classroom interaction between teachers and students. At the same time, the foreign language course is a "6 1 1" model, that is, on the basis of 6 foreign language courses per week, 1 oral language course taught by a foreign teacher and a teacher of the school is added. In addition, the two foreign schools have also strengthened exchanges and visits with middle schools in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and other countries, and cooperated with Guangdong University of Foreign Studies to strengthen their own foreign language course advantages.
In terms of extracurricular activities, the second foreign school will hold various activities such as the top ten singer competition, the "President's Cup" basketball game, and the speech contest every year; In addition, there are more than 10 clubs in the school, including radio stations and photography clubs, each club has its own characteristic activities, and campus life is not monotonous. The boarding system is implemented in the second foreign language, the dormitory is an 8-person room, equipped with air conditioning, large space, with bathroom, toilet and balcony, and the conditions are relatively good.
