The High School Affiliated to Capital Normal University was founded in 1915, due to various reasons, it has undergone many name changes and relocations, from 1938 to 1949, it was run in Zhongnanhai, moved to its current location in 1954, and was included in the jurisdiction of Capital Normal University four years later.

With its stable and excellent results, the High School Affiliated to Beijing Normal University has always had a good reputation among parents. In the just-concluded 2017 high school entrance examination, the highest score in Haidian District was born in the High School Affiliated to Beijing Normal University, with students scoring more than 550 points accounting for 59% of the total number of students in the grade, and 88% of students scored higher than the admission score of key middle schools in Haidian District. In 2016, there was also an excellent performance, with 143 students scoring above 557 points, and the average score of cultural courses ranked second in Haidian. In 2015, the overall average score and excellent rate of the examination were the first in Haidian District. The High School Affiliated to Beijing Normal University not only has a large number of high-level students, but also has outstanding overall strength.

The High School Affiliated to Beijing Normal University is one of the first batch of exemplary ordinary middle schools in Beijing, and since then, it has attracted many outstanding teachers who originally worked all over the country, which may be one of the reasons why the strong are getting stronger. The school has nearly 200 teachers with intermediate and above professional titles, 18 special teachers, dozens of subject leaders and backbone teachers in Haidian District, and more than 10 master's tutors, which is relatively rare. Most of the special-grade teachers are physics and mathematics teachers, but the most famous is a high school history teacher surnamed Yuan, who has resigned.

In 2008, the High School Affiliated to Beijing Normal University officially launched the Sino-American High School Experimental Curriculum Project. The program is guided by the pursuit of coherence, weakens the junior high school graduation exam, adopts the "1 3" school system, and can directly go to the middle school "Sino-American class" to receive study tour training without passing the high school entrance examination, and its teaching content is also the American Advanced Placement course AP. The enrollment group of the program is for the second-year students of each school, and at present, the High School Affiliated to Beijing Normal University is not favored by the policy, so if you are interested in the Sino-American class, you can also choose not to enroll in the High School Affiliated to Beijing Normal University.

In 2011, the innovation experiment project of the High School Affiliated to Beijing Normal University was approved, and its class type was officially divided into innovation class and truth-seeking class, of which the innovation class is often referred to by parents as the "key class". Usually the two types of classes have the same proportion and the number of people is equal. The placement test in July every year includes three subjects: language, mathematics and foreign language, and the school attached to Beijing Normal University has a tradition of attaching importance to competition, which is more obvious in the mathematics test paper. In contrast, the difficulty of Chinese and English will not be too high, but the amount of questions will be relatively large. The High School Affiliated to Beijing Normal University receives students' resumes in the fourth quarter of each year, and will notify the interview after the preliminary screening. Some training institutions will claim that they have a cooperative relationship with the High School Affiliated to Beijing Normal University, but judging from the admission results, it seems that the effect is not very obvious, and parents are recommended to pay more attention to the "resume delivery" channel.

The style of study in the high school attached to Beijing Normal University is closer to that of traditional middle schools, and most students report that the amount of homework is too high, and they often complete all their homework after 10 p.m. In a mid-term exam, an English teacher directly selected some of the questions in the middle school entrance examination for testing, and the average score of some realistic classes in mathematics was not even 60 points. Many students said that their self-confidence was destroyed, but the students of the High School Affiliated to Beijing Normal University were not weak in the preparation stage for the third year of junior high school, and there were pros and cons to the difficult test. In the past two years, there has been a trend of hierarchical teaching in the affiliated school of Beijing Normal University, and the stratification is determined by the final grades, but the current stratified subjects are only mathematics and English. Although the results of the realistic class are not as good as those of the innovation class, there is not much difference between the two types of teachers, and it is obvious that the score is not only related to the teachers, but also the talent of the students.

Every school has its own recreational activities, and the High School Affiliated to Beijing Normal University has a history of 17 years. The erudition course is mainly based on naturalist travel, covering natural and humanities, and the role of science popularization is relatively strong. In the past two years, the Internet elements in the liberal arts courses have gradually increased, and the school will organize activities to allow students to display their achievements in the form of PPT to the whole network through a third-party live broadcast platform. In recent years, Internet elements have appeared frequently in secondary schools, which has a lot to do with the "13th Five-Year Plan for Education Informatization" promulgated by the Ministry of Education, and the High School Affiliated to Beijing Normal University has also set up a maker space, but whether these gardens can play a role remains to be tested by time.

The canteen of the High School Affiliated to Beijing Normal University has a rich variety of dishes, including Chinese food and Western pastries, taking into account both color and fragrance, and the appearance of many pastries is also very thoughtful. The two restaurants affiliated to the Beijing Normal University are operated by two different companies, which have a certain degree of competition, so they are produced with more care. In addition, the school has recently introduced a reverse osmosis membrane water purification system, which further enhances the quality of food in the school, and parents can rest assured.

The High School Affiliated to Beijing Normal University is a middle school with a more traditional school spirit, which includes public boarding, enrollment and specialty enrollment in addition to resume auditions. Specialty students are divided into three categories: sports, science and technology, and art, and pay more attention to basketball skills, creative works, Western orchestral instrument performance skills, Chinese dance, and soft pen calligraphy.