When it comes to primary schools in Minhang District, most people will think of strong private primary schools such as Qiwai and Xiehe, but among the public primary schools in Minhang, the experimental primary school in Minhang District has not been greatly impacted by private schools, and can be called the best public primary school in the district. Minhang District Experimental Primary School has a century-old school history, founded in 1905, formerly known as "Mengzheng School", and renamed Minhang District Experimental Primary School in 1993. After continuous development, the scale of its school has been expanding day by day, and now it has four campuses in Xinsong, Chuncheng, Jingcheng and Wanding.

Xinsong Campus is the headquarters of Minhang District Experimental Primary School, located on the quiet Xinli Road, the area is small and a little old, but it is still not the smallest of the four campuses, the smallest area is the Jingcheng campus. The Chuncheng campus is the most spacious, twice the size of the Xinsong campus, and the hardware facilities are among the best among all primary schools in Minhang District, with a standard football field. Established in 2014, the Wanmachi Campus is the youngest campus and was built to alleviate the enrollment pressure of the Spring City Campus. All classrooms in Minhang District Experimental Primary School are equipped with multimedia teaching equipment, including art rooms, dance studios, indoor gymnasiums and plastic runways.

As of 2016, there were about 430 full-time teachers in Minhang District Experimental Primary School, and more than 210 had intermediate titles or above. Among them, there are 1 national backbone teacher, 2 senior middle school teachers, and dozens of city-level backbone teachers, many of whom have won the first and second prizes in the teaching evaluation of various disciplines in the urban area. However, the teachers of the four campuses of Minhang District Experimental Primary School are not even, and the Xinsong Campus of the headquarters is the strongest, and the parents of students in each branch often ask the school to strengthen the teaching force. Therefore, the school has sent many experienced teachers to teach between the campuses, and encouraged key teachers to serve as teaching and research leaders in other campuses, and the teachers of the four campuses often discuss and learn from each other.

The overall curriculum structure of Minhang District Experimental Primary School is collectively referred to as "Mengzheng Curriculum", which includes basic courses, extended courses, exploratory courses and growth experience courses, which are divided into 9 courses, including healthy development, young eagles, subject development, happy classes, independent exploration, colorful festivals, ritual celebrations, happy hiking, and sunshine sports, and cultivate students through a combination of in-class teaching and extracurricular activities.

The students of Minhang District Experimental Primary School have achieved excellent results in the Olympiad, and in recent years, their results in the four major cups have been among the best in the city. Parents said that there is a lot of homework in school, and there is a strong atmosphere of catching up with students, and for students who are lagging behind in their grades, teachers will leave them behind after school every day to personally supervise and guide students to revise their homework until the students have figured out the problems before they can go home. Most of the school's students aim to go on to two high-quality junior high schools, Shangbao and Wenlai, and according to parents, students who rank in the top five grades in the class may also be eligible for promotion, so teachers and parents attach great importance to students' grades.

In terms of board and lodging, Minhang District Experimental Primary School does not set up dormitory places, does not arrange school bus pick-up, students take a lunch break in the classroom at noon, and lunch is uniformly distributed by Lvjie Fast Food, and the lunch fee is 12 yuan, and the meals are basically not the same in a week. The prices of the four campuses of Minhang District Experimental Primary School (Xinsong Campus, Chuncheng Campus, Jingcheng Campus, and Wan Town Campus) are 48,000 to 82,000 yuan per square meter, 57,000 to 69,000 yuan per square meter, 72,000 to 74,000 yuan per square meter and 50,000 to 69,000 yuan per square meter respectively. The above prices are as of June 2018.