One of the "Four Public Primary Schools" in Xuhui District, the alma mater of former NBA star Yao Ming. Gao'an Road No. 1 Primary School (hereinafter referred to as "Gaoyi") was founded in 1955, formerly known as "Huangjia Garden" (the private garden of Huang Baihui, the king of ocean-going ships during the Republic of China).
The first year of high school is located in the style protection area from Hengshan Road to Fuxing Middle Road, which is the golden section where people from the literary and artistic circles in Shanghai live more concentrated, with an area of more than 8,800 square meters and a construction area of more than 8,200 square meters, divided into two campuses: Wanping (grades 1 to 3) and Kangping (grades 4 to 5). In addition to two libraries, the school also has more than 20 special classrooms, such as laboratories, choir rooms, dance rooms, darts rooms, calligraphy and painting rooms, computer rooms, future classrooms and psychological counseling rooms. As of 2017, there are more than 110 full-time teachers in the first year of high school, with a teacher-student ratio of about 1:14, nearly 90% of teachers have a bachelor's degree or above, and 70% have intermediate and senior professional titles.
Judging from the results of the entrance examination alone, the first year of high school can be regarded as the first public primary school in Xuhui. In 2017, about 18 of the graduates of the first year of high school entered Huayu Middle School, more than popular private primary schools such as Shaw and Shiwai. About 100 students were admitted to World Foreign Language Middle School, Southwest Weiyu, Southwest Model and other schools. It is worth mentioning that most of the students in the first year of high school are from a good background, and some of them are the children of cadres of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee, the Municipal Government and the East China Bureau.
If you look at the results of the cup competition, the first year of high school is not the opponent of the other three public primary schools in Xuhui, and the school is not good at playing chicken blood. Parents said that the amount of homework in the first year of high school was moderate, and there was almost no written homework in the first and second grades, and the amount of homework gradually increased after the third grade, and the students rested at about 11 o'clock every night. In some parent forums, some parents said that the school's curriculum progress is slow, and the depth and breadth of curriculum development are not as good as those of other private primary schools in the district. In addition, there are no key classes in the first year of high school, but in fact, the teacher allocation of each class in the same grade is not balanced, but fortunately, the teaching content and curriculum are the same for each class.
As early as the 90s of the last century, the first year of high school took the lead in launching the second classroom, opening many students' favorite interest group activities, and students could go to class to study once a week. Nowadays, while carrying out traditional test-taking education, the first year of high school gradually guides students to learn to explore, and adopts participatory and experiential learning methods, so that students can gain more knowledge in practice. In addition, every Friday afternoon, the school also carries out a one-hour activity, and invites external professionals and special teachers to teach to broaden students' knowledge.
The enrichment courses and characteristic courses in the first year of high school are abundant, with more than 400 enrichment courses such as computer painting, chess, paper cup craft making, etc., and the credit system is implemented. The school's special courses include Chinese painting, darts and basketball, etc., and its darts team has won the title of "IDF China Youth Darts Training Demonstration School" by the International Darts Federation for its outstanding results, and the school and Yao Ming have named the basketball club "Little Yao Ming" basketball team, and there are professional coaches and physical education teachers to train and guide every week. At the same time, the first year of high school also regularly holds reading festivals, art festivals and sports festivals, and students' extracurricular activities are quite exciting.
The corresponding neighborhood committees for the first year of high school enrollment (2017) are Wuxing, Gao'an, Kangping, Guangyuan, Anting, Wanping, Dechang, and Shanghai Xincun Neighborhood Committees in Tianping Street, and the school district houses include Xujiahui Garden, Shenfeng Building, Zhonghui Garden (Xuhui), Lane 207 of Kangping Road, Public Security Building (Hengshan Road), Lane 696 of Hengshan Road, Tianping Community, etc., with prices ranging from 93,000 to 129,000 yuan per square meter. The above price information is as of June 2018.
