It is often associated with Guangzhou Tieyi Middle School with the word "strict". Since its establishment in 1952, Guangzhou Railway No. 1 Middle School has been using a semi-military management model, such as the quilt folded into squares, and the head teacher leading the team to run every day, which is the embodiment of "strictness". Guangzhou Railway No. 1 Middle School is a key middle school of the Ministry of Railways, which has been renamed as "Guangzhou Railway Workers' Children School", "Guangzhou Railway Middle School", "Guangzhou Railway First Middle School", the school currently has two campuses in Yuexiu and Panyu, both of which are "unified management mode, unified school-running philosophy, unified education goals, unified fund accounting", and are all public secondary schools directly under Guangzhou.

Under the strict management system, the performance of Guangzhou Railway No. 1 Middle School is naturally good. In 2015, the Panyu campus, with its uneven student background, led the district in the first year of the high school entrance examination, which fully demonstrated its teaching quality. However, on the whole, the results of the first iron department are higher than those of the Panyu campus. In the 2017 high school entrance examination, the first division of the iron department once again achieved good results, with a total score of 740 or more 18 students, 73 students with a score of 720 or more, 187 students with a score of 698 or more, and the number of students admitted to the demonstration high school reached 448, which has a strong strength in the public junior high school in Guangzhou.

Guangzhou Railway No. 1 Middle School has Chinese, mathematics, English, music 4 Guangdong Province famous teacher studio, a group of teachers as provincial, municipal, district discipline teaching and research committee directors, members of the central group, special teaching and research staff, subject leaders of the subject coverage rate of 100%, about 60% of the teachers have senior professional titles or graduate degrees, Chinese, physics, chemistry, political science group has been rated as Guangzhou advanced subject group. The selection of teachers in Guangzhou Railway No. 1 Middle School is also "one in a hundred", with a recruitment ratio of more than 100:1. In terms of echelon construction, Guangzhou Railway No. 1 Middle School has a mature training system, including "qualification training" for new teachers, "promotion training" for backbone teachers, and "style training" for excellent teachers.

Located in the strong education area, the headquarters of Guangzhou Railway No. 1 Middle School is like brocade and green grass. The library has a collection of 260,000 books and e-books, as well as 2 large orchestra rehearsal rooms, 7 music rooms, 2 dance rehearsal halls, 20 independent piano rooms, and special art rooms for calligraphy, painting, and pottery. International standard football fields, 10 plastic tracks, 11 basketball courts, 11 badminton courts, 4 volleyball standard courts, 1 tennis court, aerobics rehearsal room and martial arts rehearsal room and other sports venues are not left behind.

Guangzhou Railway No. 1 Middle School has apartment-style student dormitories, every 6-8 students live in a dormitory, in principle, junior high school does not provide accommodation, students with distant home addresses can apply. The dormitory is equipped with solar water heaters, boiling water systems, air conditioners and other facilities, and the accommodation environment is clean and tidy. In terms of cafeteria meals, most of the students said that the price was moderate, about 10 yuan to be full, and breakfast, recess meals, lunches, afternoon tea, dinner, supper, etc. were provided. The taste of the meals in the canteen is also good, and there are many special dishes, and many faculty and staff will queue up to buy them in the canteen.