Shanghai Jiading No. 1 High School was founded in 1926, designated among the first batch of key high schools of Shanghai in 1958 and among the first batch of “Shanghai experimental demonstration senior high schools” in 2005.
The school covers a land area of 162mu, with total floor space of over 50,000 square meters, and plantation coverage of 45%. The teaching and living activity facilities include the teaching buildings, science and technology gallery, astronomic observatory, digital laboratory, music hall, gymnasium, swimming pool, tennis court, football field, 400m plastic runway, campus network and CCTV system, making it a modern garden type school of high standard.
The school now has 38 teaching classes (including 8 for Xinjiang students), with about 1,400 students and a faculty of 194 people (including 149 teachers). There are 98 teachers with post-graduate class and above education level, accounting for 66% of total number of teachers; 40% of teachers have senior professional title and 50% have medium professional title, making a total of 90%.
The school adheres to the spirit of “wise words and exemplary conduct at all times”, aims at fostering people with “profound foundation and initiative development”, carries on the schooling philosophy of “autonomous and creative education”, and brings into full play the initiatives of both teachers and students, to jointly build the stage of growth. The general objective of school development is to run the school as a featured boarding senior high school of experimental, demonstration, modern and open type with influence in Shanghai and known in the whole country.
In recent years, the school has implemented quality education in an all-round way and fostered a large number of excellent students, realizing leap-forward development, its quality of teaching enjoys high reputation in the society, and every year, a number of graduates were enrolled by famous universities of China, including Tsinghua University, Peking University, Fudan University and Jiaotong University.
While maintaining the original advantages and developing traditional programs, the school has gradually shaped 3 main features of “science and technology education”, “classics reading” and “mass sports”. The school has been appraised as national level language and writing standardization demonstration school, national level school with traditional sports item, Shanghai Model Unit, Shanghai green school, Shanghai code of conduct demonstration school, Shanghai education scientific research advanced collective, Shanghai science and technology education feature demonstration school, Shanghai teachers professional development and internship teachers standardized training base school and Shanghai safe and civilized campus. The CPC general branch of the school got the title of “Advanced grass-root Party organization of Shanghai” at the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China.