"South Xuhui and North Yangpu" means that Yangpu is one of the few districts that can compete with Xuhui, the strongest area in education. Here, there are universities such as Fudan, Tongji and Caida; The "four famous schools" of high schools occupy two seats, namely the High School Affiliated to Jiaotong University and the High School Affiliated to Fudan University; In junior high school, Lansheng Fudan is in charge. In addition, the resources of public and private primary schools in Yangpu District are balanced, and many famous schools are ranked among the top in the city.

The public primary school in Yangpu District is the primary school affiliated to Shanghai Second Normal School (referred to as the Second Normal School). Founded in 1958, it is located in the Huangxing section of Yangpu District, and the campus was renovated in 2016. The new campus covers an area of more than 8,000 square meters, with a construction area of more than 15,000 square meters, including an indoor gymnasium, a football field, a tea museum, a small theater, a painting studio and an exhibition hall, 12 special classrooms, and an average library of 48 books.

As of 2018, there are a total of 72 teachers and staff in the Second Normal School, all of whom have a bachelor's degree or above, 6 have a master's degree, 9 are senior middle school teachers, 1 is a special teacher, 5 are district discipline leaders, and 8 are district backbone teachers, with a teacher-student ratio of 1:12.

In 2017, more than 15 students from the Primary School Affiliated to the Second Normal School were promoted to Lansheng Fudan, which is the second largest source school for Lansheng Fudan (the first is the "Primary 5 Class" set up by Lansheng Fudan). The school has a school choice rate of 50% every year, and about 10 students in each class are admitted to Cunzhi Secondary School.

The primary school attached to the second division adopts small class teaching, and the number of students in each class is about 30. At the same time, in order to motivate students to study independently, the school has set up a final examination exemption system, which adopts the method of voluntary application and independent registration, which is jointly evaluated by teachers and students. The number of students who are exempted from the examination for each subject is generally about 4% of the total number of students in the whole grade. Students can apply for exemption from all three subjects at the same time, including Chinese, Mathematics and English, or they can apply for exemption from a single subject.

In addition, the primary school attached to the second division also set tea art as a special course of the school. In the first grade, the course "The Joy of Tea" is offered, and the course content is tea painting and dance. In the second grade, the course "The Rite of Tea" is offered, which mainly teaches students some etiquette for making tea.

Since 2017, the primary school attached to the second division has begun to implement the "one household in five years" rule. Its counterpart streets (2017) are Chifeng Road, Miyun Road, Lane 4-40 of Dalian West Road (double), and Lane 949-1147 of Siping Road (single). Most of the houses in the school district are old and dilapidated, and the price is between 61,000 and 97,000 yuan per square meter. The above price information is as of June 2018.