Sanfan Middle School was founded in 1997 and was separated from the second affiliated junior high school of Beijing Normal University. Since then, Sanfan Middle School has been fulfilling the responsibilities of the Second Affiliated High School of Beijing Normal University, and has sent a large number of talents to the Second Affiliated High School for more than ten years. In 2015, there were 84 students with full scores in a single subject in the Sanfan High School Entrance Examination; In 2016, the average score of the total score ranked first in Xicheng District, and the number of high-level students with a score of more than 560 was 121, accounting for 40% of the total number of grades; In 2017, the score dropped slightly, but it still ranked in the top three in Xicheng.
Most of the teachers at Sanfan Middle School graduated from Beijing Normal University with a master's degree or above. At present, the school has more than 30 discipline leaders and backbone teachers at the district or municipal level, and more than 40 teachers at the deputy senior level and above. Sanfan Middle School has also formed a good interaction with Beijing Normal University, and the school often hires teaching and research staff to guide the work.
Sanfan Middle School focuses on cultivating a sense of autonomy, and the curriculum design is designed to meet the individual needs of students. Combined with its own teaching philosophy and student characteristics, the school selectively integrates national and local programs and launches a four-level curriculum system. The basic curriculum is mainly focused on cultural subjects, which relies more on the professionalism of teachers, and is not unique compared to other secondary schools. The enrichment courses are presented in the form of elective courses, covering many interesting topics such as sports, literature, language, science and technology, food culture, etc., and the teaching method is close to lectures and salons. The developmental course responds to the requirements of the Education Commission and is committed to innovative exploration, but unlike the entrepreneurship park of Haidian famous school, Sanfan Middle School arranges teachers to guide students to do research and complete papers, and the topic selection is also more serious. Specialty courses are actually special training content for specialty students, mainly including science, science and technology, sports, and art, which are directly related to high school enrollment.
Sanfan Middle School is not large, with an internal width of only more than 50 meters, which is less than half of Chang'an Street. However, the campus facilities are relatively good, with two basketball courts and a football field in the northern part of the campus, and a standard plastic track to make the games run smoothly. In 2012, the university renovated the underground gymnasium, which allows students to have wooden courts, greenery in the open spaces between the school buildings, fountains, benches, and pavilions, making it a popular photo spot every graduation season.
The hardware facilities have been strengthened, but no additional canteen has been built in Sanfan Middle School. In order to ensure the safety of students, the campus access control measures are very strict, and there are two iron gates at the entrance, and there are security guards. This makes it difficult for athletically gifted students to eat out during their lunch breaks, and they have to eat boxed lunches delivered by the school. Most students said that Sanfan meals are difficult to swallow, and parents don't have to worry too much, the first and second junior high school students will leave school at 16:40 at the latest, and although there is special training for the preparation of the third junior high school, all classes will end at 17:00, and dinner can still add some nutrition.
Sanfan's placement test is divided into three subjects: language, mathematics and English, which is usually not too difficult, but the amount of questions is relatively large, and the mathematics test paper occasionally involves rough and shallow Olympiad content. Before 2014, the Sanfan class was divided into three categories: ordinary class, experimental class, and competition class, and the competition class gradually disappeared after the big tablet, but the experimental class was continued, and the number of each session was about 2-3. In 2015, Sanfan introduced a hierarchical system, which began at the end of the second semester of junior high school, and the teachers of each subject will divide students into three levels: A, B and C according to the mid-term and final grades and usual performance of previous years, so as to facilitate teaching according to their talents and preparing for the high school entrance examination. The hierarchical teaching is only for the ordinary class, and the experimental class still implements the overall teaching.
The hierarchical teaching concept puts the students in the ordinary class under a certain amount of pressure, and the experimental class does not carry out personnel turnover after the first year of junior high school, but the study is not easy, and there is likely to be course training on Sunday morning, and the atmosphere of mathematics expansion is also more popular. The amount of homework in Sanfan Middle School is moderate, and most students are usually able to complete their homework from 21:00 to 22:00. In recent years, 150 graduates of each class will be promoted to the Second Affiliated High School of Beijing Normal University, and the top 50 or top 80 students in the grade will have more opportunities to be selected for the high school experimental class.
