Education Resources

With rich and excellent educational resources, Xicheng District has a number of exemplary middle schools that are locally and even nationally renowned, such as Beijing No. 4 Middle School, Beijing No. 8 Middle School, Beijing Experimental Middle School and the Middle School Affiliated with Beijing Normal University. In addition, there are other famous primary schools such as the Beijing No.1 Experimental Elementary School, Beijing No. 2 Experimental Elementary School, and Beijing Elementary School. Among them, the Hui People’s Elementary School, a school for ethnic groups, has a long history and has been sticking to developing various educational activities for years to promote an excellent traditional ethnic culture and lay a good foundation for cultivating talents of ethnic groups.

Xicheng District has also made continuous efforts to adjust the educational resources in primary and middle schools, and readjust school layouts, which resulted in a more reasonable educational structure and school layout, and the remarkably improved teaching conditions.

By the end of 2018, Xicheng District has 185 schools with 42706 new entrants, 152288 full-time students and 29303 graduates. They include 58 elementary schools with 18328 new entrants, 84963 full-time students and 10531 graduates, 4 junior high schools with 10119 new entrants, 27353 full-time students and 6481 graduates, 38 middle schools with 5697 new entrants, 18836 full-time students and 6574 graduates, 82 kindergartens with 8518 new entrants, 20721 full-time students and 5643 graduates, 2 schools of special education with 38 new entrants, 351 full-time students and 63 graduates as well as 1 work-and-study school with 6 new entrants, 64 full-time students and 11 graduates. During the year, Xicheng District has added 2430 new places for preschool education and 11435 new places for compulsory education.

In accordance with the law, Xicheng District ensures the growth of funding for education and steady improvement in the quality of education and teaching. The level of basic education maintains a leading rank in the whole city, the integration of vocational education resources makes a steady progress, and the system of lifelong education gets improved. In recent five years, 20 schools have completed renovation and expansion and sites of 360 schools have been reinforced.