Zhongguancun No. 1 Primary School was founded in 1949, and its headquarters is located at No. 5, Zhongguancun South Second Street. Zhongguancun No. 1 Primary School is well-known in Beijing's public primary schools, and its overall strength is strong, as a famous school in the city, Zhongguancun No. 1 Primary School is naturally an honor, "National Youth Science and Technology Education Implementation Project Guidance Outline Demonstration School", "National Educational Science Tenth Five-Year Plan Key Project Experimental School", "National Basic Education Curriculum Reform Advanced Unit", "Haidian District's First Batch of Primary School Quality Education Quality Education Quality School". As one of the cattle schools in Beijing, Zhongguancun No. 1 Primary School also held its 55th anniversary celebration in the Great Hall of the People.

Zhongguancun No. 1 Primary School is one of the pioneer schools in Beijing's education reform and has achieved fruitful results in teaching and research. The school has established an academic committee, a Kwai Yuen Teacher Research Institute, and a Kwai Yuen Curriculum Research Institute, where teachers independently develop courses and formulate teaching materials. At present, the teaching materials such as "Golden Sunflower Paradise" compiled by the teachers of Zhongguancun No. 1 Primary School have been applied to the teaching of the first and second grades in the school, and the feedback effect is very good. In addition, Zhongguancun No. 1 Primary School cooperated with the Faculty of Education of Beijing Normal University to establish the Primary Education Research Center of Beijing Normal University, and cooperated with the Chinese Academy of Education Sciences to establish the Experimental Base of Education Reform of the Chinese Academy of Education Sciences.

Zhongguancun No. 1 Primary School has a spacious campus and complete hardware facilities, but compared with the Affiliated Primary School of the National People's Congress and Zhongguancun No. 3 Primary School, the school is slightly backward in supporting facilities. The school has concentrated high-quality teacher resources such as primary school level teachers, primary school senior teachers, middle school senior teachers, and special teachers. Liu Chang, the current principal of Zhongguancun No. 1 Primary School, is a master's degree in education management in the United States, a senior middle school teacher, and holds many positions in major education associations in China.

Sunflower is the school flower of Zhongguancun Elementary School, and Zhongguancun Elementary School is also called "Kwai Garden". The school pays attention to the development of the unique personality of the school's students, attaches importance to specialty education, and advocates the core value of "being the best me". More than 100 interest groups have been set up on campus, ranging from science and technology such as robotics, computer programming, and mathematical thinking training, to sports such as aerobics, basketball, volleyball, and football, and then to art classes such as wind music, chorus, and dance. In addition, Zhongguancun No. 1 Primary School has the titles of "Beijing Sports (Track and Field) Traditional Project Advanced School" and "Beijing Jinpeng Science and Technology Troupe", and the school's pipe band, dance team, and aerobics team also won awards in city-level competitions.

Among the previous graduates of Zhongguancun Primary School, most of them entered the high-quality middle school in Haidian District through promotion, specialties and other ways, and many of them were promoted to the early training class of the National People's Congress. Although the current policy of small promotion to junior high school has been cancelled and changed to "registration and enrollment" and "allocation", the five strongest key middle schools in Haidian, including the High School Affiliated to the National People's Congress, the High School Affiliated to Peking University, the High School Affiliated to Tsinghua University, the High School Affiliated to Beijing Normal University, and the 101 Middle School, do not participate in the allocation, and the enrollment ratio is also very small (2018 small promotion policy), so for Niu Wa, the change in policy has little impact on their entry into key schools.

The number of applicants in Zhongguancun No. 1 Primary School every year far exceeds the enrollment scale, so the admission conditions are also very strict. The school district housing in the area is also high, with the transaction price of 11-130,000 yuan/square meter.