Private schools in the Shanghai system are polarized, with high-quality private junior high schools piled up, while private high schools are lacking in interest, and many private high schools are at the bottom of the district, which is regarded by students and parents as the last choice for not entering the stream. In such an environment, excellent private high schools are very valuable, and Southwest Weiyu Middle School is the leader of Shanghai's private high schools. Founded in 1993, this long-established private high school enjoys a high social reputation in Shanghai, and its high school grade is the undisputed leader in terms of education, teaching quality and school spirit.

In fact, the strength of Southwest Weiyu in high school is closely related to its self-positioning as a "complete middle school", and the school especially emphasizes the 7-year consistent training, that is, the "4 3" model of pre-junior high school, junior high school grade and high school grade. This means that a large number of high school students come from the school's junior high school students, which is the fundamental reason why the performance of Southwest Education maintains an excellent level. Gifted students will sign an agreement with the school according to their wishes to enter the direct promotion class to the direct promotion class to the fourth class according to their grades, and these four direct promotion classes are the prototype of the new high school year of Southwest Position. In addition to the direct promotion class and the bridge experimental class outside the direct promotion system, Southwest Weiyu High School currently only recruits one parallel class every year, and the actual admission score of this part of the students in recent years is close to the key level of the city, with an admission score of 579.5 points in Xuhui District in 2017 and 577 points in Xuhui District in 2018, surpassing all the district key high schools in the same district.

Private high schools in Shanghai generally have mediocre grades, and only the southwest is the best of the best, and it is almost two worlds from other private schools. In previous years, the first rate of the college entrance examination in Southwest Weiyu could reach about 70%~80%, and the pre-admission data of the first-class colleges and universities "Qingbei Fujiao" ranked among the top 25 in the city for consecutive years. In terms of quantity, the number of re-admitted students in Southwest Weiyu every year is comparable to that of the old powerhouse Weiyu Middle School in Xuhui District; If calculated in proportion, its repetition rate can be compared with traditional famous schools such as Yan'an and Kongjiang in the middle and lower reaches of the "Four Schools and Eight Universities", which is amazing for a private high school. In recent years, the quality of the school's junior high school direct promotion students has declined, and the scores of the college entrance examination have also declined. Among the graduates of the first new college entrance examination in 2017, more than 50% of them were admitted to famous universities in China; In 2017, 38 students were admitted to the comprehensive evaluation of the nine universities, ranking 19th in the city, and the number of students admitted to the comprehensive evaluation of Fudan and Jiaotong University ranked among the top three in Xuhui District; In 2018, the comprehensive evaluation data of the nine schools declined significantly, with a total of 18 students admitted to the nine schools, and only 5 students were re-admitted.

Zhang Jianzhong, the principal of Southwest Weiyu Middle School, has been in office for more than ten years since the public restructuring in 2005, and is one of the few in-service special principals in many private primary and secondary schools in Shanghai. The teachers of the school are known for their conscientiousness and responsibility, and the teaching quality is high, especially in physics and chemistry. Teachers are also teachers and friends, and many of them are widely praised for their distinctive personalities. It should be noted that the teacher resources of the experimental class (direct promotion class) and the parallel class (external recruitment class) are not exactly the same, and the difference is mainly reflected in the teachers of the third year (other than the number of languages), and a number of special teachers in the high school generally only teach in the experimental class, or even only teach in the sixth class (direct 1 class) with the highest student level; Primary 3 teachers have the same grades, and there is little difference between classes.

In the 2017 Shanghai College Entrance Examination 3 3 reform, Southwest Weiyu is at the forefront of class teaching. Geography and Biology in the self-selected "Primary 3" can be completed in the second year of high school, so the geography and biology class hours of the first year of Southwest Yuyu High School have increased. Under the reform of the college entrance examination, subject research has become compulsory in high school, and the time of subject research has been brought forward to the first semester of senior high school, one year earlier than that of ordinary schools; The project process is tightly arranged, and the final defense will be completed in the summer of the first year of high school, leaving enough time for the preparation of the second year of high school. From the first year of senior high school, the school will consciously cultivate students' self-awareness and self-willingness, so as to prepare for the selection of subjects for the graded examination, major choice and career planning. The college entrance examination reform is in the ascendant, and a series of responses to the southwest education are quite effective, and the A-grade rate of the 2018 sophomore geography college entrance examination is more than 40%.

The typical "sheep-herding" education concept of Southwest Weiyu Middle School is quite attractive to many students, with less homework and more activities in school, refusal of sea tactics, and a relatively relaxed learning environment means more autonomy and possibility, but it also puts forward higher requirements for students' self-management ability. The conscientiousness of school teachers has helped a lot in this learning mode, and some students in the past joked that "teachers skip the sea of questions, and students cross the river", and teaching pays more attention to thinking training rather than experience training. On the whole, the academic rhythm of Southwest Education is relaxed but not relaxed, and teachers are very responsible for students, who will follow up with junior students and encourage students to take the initiative to communicate.

It is worth noting that the experimental class of Southwest Weiyu High School will be more or less separated from the parallel class, and the direct promotion class will have less pressure to go to school in the third stage of junior high school, and there are benefits such as French and German foreign languages, various evening activities, monthly trips, and taking foreign friends home, etc., some of which continue to the end of the first year of high school, while the parallel class of foreign recruitment does not have the same resources on some topics. In addition, because there is often a certain difference between the results of the high school entrance examination in the foreign recruitment class and the direct promotion class, the gap between the two student levels cannot be ignored, and for the students in the parallel class, they need to redouble their efforts if they want to become a member of the numerator of the admission rate figure.

Southwest Education attaches great importance to quality education and moral infiltration, and the open campus atmosphere and school-running concept run through the entire secondary school stage. There are nearly 40 large and small student clubs in the three campuses, including the high school, and the quality of club activities is quite high, such as English debate, model United Nations, moot court, Mendel Biology Laboratory, Lunit Robotics Club, Beishan Drama Club and other star clubs have instructors sitting and blessing, and they are active in various competitions at all levels in this field. Among them, Southwest Weiyu has a fine tradition and high competition strength in English debate and robotics, and has achieved remarkable results in major competitions in Shanghai and even across the country. In addition, bridge is also a special project of the school, and the bridge class that has been cultivated from junior high school to high school not only has the world's top level in bridge, but also has the strength to compete with the direct promotion class 1 in terms of academics within the system. Compared with the active interest project competition, Southwest Education is not very concerned about subject competitions, the number of top competition students is small, but not few results, almost every year, dozens of students win awards in the National Mathematics League, Shanghai TI Cup and other mathematics competitions.

Southwest Weiyu has international curriculum classes, offering American high school and AP courses, but it started late and is not considered a first-tier international school in Shanghai. The admission results of the first batch of 2017 students admitted to the school were not eye-catching, but the admission results of foreign universities were very good, and the quality of running schools was remarkable, so in the past two years, the International Department of Western University has also become a popular school for AP courses in Shanghai.

The West (Main) Campus where Xiwei High School is located occupies a small area, which is quiet in the middle of the city, and every inch of land is valuable. Despite this, the school spares no effort in the use of space, with a water pavilion on the campus, a roof garden on the fifth floor, basketball courts, tennis courts, climbing walls, badminton courts, table tennis rooms, gymnastics rooms, gymnasiums and other sports venues and facilities. The school adheres to the principle of not taking up a section of physical education class, giving students enough time for sports, and the men's basketball and women's volleyball are the traditional strengths of the school; Due to space limitations, there is no football field on the West Campus of the High School. As a day high school, Southwest Weiyu has only very limited accommodation, and the school generally does not encourage non-international students to live on campus unless there are special circumstances. Lunch is served in the student cafeteria at noon, and the quality of the meals is quite average.

Southwest Weiyu is a well-deserved leader among the private high schools in Shanghai, and it is a key city in the name of the district, and it can also be ranked among the first-class high schools in the city. Since the high schools of the same level are basically all public schools, the relatively high tuition fees of the southwest education have also become a concern for the parents of students. However, the school is equipped with a perfect scholarship mechanism, which gives about 14,000 ~ 7,000 scholarships each semester according to the students' academic rankings, which can benefit nearly half of the students in the grade, which is equivalent to a large reduction or offset of tuition fees.