Beijing No. 8 Middle School was formed by the merger of Beiping Private Sicun Middle School and Beiping Municipal No. 8 Middle School. As early as 1986, the No. 8 Middle School was the pioneer in the implementation of quality education, and the "Bell Ceremony" at that time has continued to this day. In 1985, No. 8 Middle School cooperated deeply with the Institute of Psychology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Beijing Academy of Education Sciences to implement super-long education. These teaching concepts seemed very avant-garde at the time, and they were never lost in 30 years, and gradually became the eight Chinese genes.

Every year, a large number of parents pay attention to the enrollment information of No. 8 Middle School, and they will set "eight less, eight elements" as their children's goals. "Eight Less, Eight Element" actually refers to the two special class types of the eight. The children's class of No. 8 Middle School is for the enrollment of 4th grade children, and the screening criteria are intelligence tests, which are different from ordinary test questions, and pay more attention to logic, geometry, and spatial thinking skills. Students who pass the screening will complete the remaining knowledge of Chinese in primary school, junior high school and high school within four years, face the college entrance examination without being recruited, and can obtain a university diploma when they become adults. Many parents are fascinated by the Junior Eight class, and some even use the Mensa test questions to train their children, but the Junior Eight questions are unpredictable, and so far they have not found that the test-taking training is significantly helpful.

Intellectual talent is admirable, but in a set of standard teaching process for children's classes, 14-year-old "prodigies" will enter university life with 21-year-old "ordinary people", and the huge age gap may bring a lot of trouble, so we do not recommend this type of class, after all, family and friends are also important elements of children's training. If you can really confirm that your children have very different talents in primary school, it seems that Basu (quality class) is more worth trying.

The quality class adopts a 4 3 school system, which is equivalent to a low-level version of the children's class or a derivative version of the direct promotion class, and the 4 years will be used to learn the knowledge of the fifth and sixth grades and junior high school, as long as you do not fall behind, you can successfully enter the high school through independent enrollment to continue your studies. In addition to taking the college entrance examination, students can also enjoy other ways to go on to higher education, such as independent enrollment, SAT\AP, and recommendation by the principal.

Before 2014, there was a clear establishment of experimental classes, and in the following two years, there were strange products such as "joint classes" and "6 good classes", and after 2016, the school clearly announced the implementation of parallel teaching, and there will be no parallel classes after that. It is widely denied that the school claims that there are advantages and disadvantages among the classes. No matter how the classes are divided, the entrance exam for No. 8 Middle School has not been cancelled, and the school responded that the role of the exam is only to find out.

The confusion of class types has a lot to do with the assignment reform, which also indirectly affects the results of the eighth middle school. In 2017, the eighth middle school ranked fifth in Xicheng with an average score of 530.5 points, a decrease of about 10 points compared with three or four years ago. Another phenomenon in Xicheng is that the gap between schools has narrowed, and the distribution of school grades with a relaxed learning style is discrete, and the teachers of each school have not changed their teaching methods after the large allocation, but the source of students has been different from usual.

The atmosphere of the eighth middle school is relatively relaxed, and the amount of homework in Xicheng District is not much, and the students in each class do not agree with the advent of the era of allocation, but the talented and intelligent can still achieve high scores. There are many schools in the No. 8 Middle School, and at present, the No. 8 Junior and Basu classes will be held in the headquarters of the financial sector; The first year of junior high school students will be enrolled in the Muxidi Campus; Students in the second and third years of junior high school will move to the Xibianmen Dongli Campus.