Jing'an District, where Shixi Middle School is located, does not have four branches and eight traditional schools, and it has long attracted top students in the district, and it can be regarded as one of the old powerhouses. Judging from the comprehensive evaluation rate, the performance of Shixi is flat but steady, and it can steadily output more than 10 students every year, with the 985 rate and 211 rate maintaining the top 20 or so in the city, which is more than enough in the city.

The Mathematics Gifted Class in Shixi was first opened in 2016, enrolling the top 20 students in the whole grade. The science class is the second top-notch experimental class, focusing on the depth and breadth of the curriculum; The science and technology innovation class ranks third, and the school attaches great importance to science and technology innovation competitions, and the students in this class have also won many awards in science and technology competitions in the city and even in the world; Finally, there are liberal arts classes, and all experimental classes will be added. There is no morning reading and evening self-study in the west of the city, there are no monthly exams in the first and second years of high school, and weekends and holidays will not be occupied to make up classes, and the pressure is much less than that of other city focuses. There are relatively few written homework, but hands-on practice and speech homework often appear, such as Chinese class requires students to make PPT for pre-class speeches, and every week they have to make newspaper clippings to communicate with the teacher.

Spending huge sums of money to build a campus with a sense of science and technology is a major feature of Shixi. There are a lot of LEGO/LEGO/Matrix Robotics/TETRIX Robotics in the lab, and the team in the west of the city has made a name for itself in technology competitions such as WRO/FLL, and the automatic windows and small wind tunnel in the lab have also been used in mini F1 races, and they have also achieved good results. In 2018, Shixi opened the first artificial intelligence course in the history of Shanghai's basic education, and the laboratory computer was pre-installed with a deep learning algorithm platform independently developed by SenseTime, and students could train deep learning models and customize algorithm extensions on the "SenseClass Teaching Experiment Platform".

Controversially, there are too many activities in the first and second years of the city's West High School. Drama, ballroom dance, folk dance, debate and other competitions and various art festivals emerge one after another, making students' lives more colorful and easy to distract students from their studies. However, this is also consistent with the educational philosophy of Shixi, which discourages the sea of questions, discourages large-scale make-up classes, strictly controls the total class time, and leaves time for students, but for students who are not self-disciplined enough, it may do more harm than good.

THE CAMPUS INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE WEST OF THE CITY CAN BE DESCRIBED AS LUXURIOUS, WITH TOILETS THAT ARE REGARDED AS "FIVE-STAR" BY STUDENTS, UNDERGROUND TABLE TENNIS ROOMS, BASKETBALL HALLS, SWIMMING POOLS, A CAFÉ-LIKE LIBRARY, AND FREE COFFEE MACHINES, AND WI-FI COVERAGE THROUGHOUT THE CAMPUS. The newly built cafeteria has three floors, with a wide range of choices and good tastes. However, since Shixi is located in the bustling center of Jing'an, and the school allows students to enter and exit the school freely, many students choose to eat out. The dormitories in the west of the city have private bathrooms and air conditioning, but only students whose families live outside of the 3-stop bus can apply for accommodation. There are buses No. 138 and No. 20 opposite the main entrance of the school, which are only 3 stops away from Nanjing Road.

Over the years, the self-recruitment of Shixi has been known for its novel form and extensive content. The first self-recruitment examination is at the end of March, with a written test and an interview, the written test is written in English, and the interview includes an English interview, a physical experiment and a Chinese answer. The second self-recruitment is in May, and those who have not signed a contract in the early stage need to write a written test in English, and those who have signed a contract can write an essay. In recent years, the score line in the west of the city has been rising day by day, 589 in 2016, 285.5 in 2017, in the middle of Datong and Gezhi, it jumped to 590 in 2018, jumping into the top ten in the city, but the score rate has not risen, and parents who want to report can consider the cost performance.