No. 1 High School of Gaomi is a provincial standardized  school  in Shandong Province. Founded in 1945,  it  has  a  long  history  and  contains profound cultural deposits, which has cultivated a good many excellent students who have served, are serving and will serve our country and the society.

    The school is located in the downtown of Gaomi known as the Phoenix City. With the famous coastal city of Qingdao to the east and the World Kite Capital City  of Weifang to  the  west,  it has an academic atmosphere as  well  as  a  good  education  environment. Covering an area of more than 86,000 square meters, including  a  building  area  of  over  50,000  square meters, it has its own campus net and TV  station  in  addition  to  the  students’  self-study rooms,  research  laboratories,  multimedia  studios, academic  report  halls  and  other  first-class  modern and  advanced educational  facilities.  And now, more than 3,200 students are here growing up healthily and enjoying their easy access to all the above advanced conditions.

    With the core value of Foundation of the Students’ Lifetime Happiness, the school decides on their motto--“Prepare for the ‘YOU’ Aged   Forty”,   their  goal  of  education---“Lofty  Aspiration, Sound  Personality,  Solid  Foundation,  Superior  Speciality”, their  school  spirit---“Brisk  Your  Thinking  and  Standardize Your   Words  and  Actions”,  their  teaching  style---“Being Rigorous and Realistic; Inspiring Wisdom with Wisdom”, their learning style---“ Being Virtuous and Erudite; Being Aspiring and Promising”. For the construction of an ideal school that the students dream of attending, where the teachers are happy and it is respected by society as well, they   are   constantly   adjusting  their concepts of education, innovating their ways of work,  optimizing their system of management, deepening the reform of teaching,  promoting  the  construction  of  the teaching staff and encouraging the students to forge themselves. Therefore, the school’s teaching quality is always improving. In the last ten years,  as  many as  83  graduates  have  been  admitted  to Peking University  and Tsinghua University. And thus  it has been awarded a Five-Star School, which is one of the first five awarded  schools  in the  2009-2011  Ordinary  High School Star Assessment of Weifang.

    The school has always regarded the construction of the teaching staff as the base of its existence, as the foundation of its development, and as the source of its power. They are  always making great efforts to cultivate the leading teachers of each subject and further promote the teacher-forging project. So far, the structure of teachers has been relatively reasonable in age, education, major and professional title. There are 4 national excellent teachers or national model teachers, 7 provincial or municipal senior special grade teachers, 24 provincial teaching experts or winners of high-quality course competition, 46 teaching experts of Weifang District, 41 subject teaching examples in Gaomi and 53 teachers with a master’s degree. Clearly, the school  has a teaching group adapting to modernized teaching.

    The school also promotes active international cooperation and communication, dovetails cultivating plans with more than 50 famous universities and has formed a good relationship with them, making it the source of the enrolment of key universities. In recent years, the school has been entrusted with the right of recommending the students’ taking part in  the  independent  selection  test of  these universities. And these universities, including Peking  University and Tsinghua University, have provided opportunities for the school. What’s more, it obtained the headmaster’s real-name recommendation qualification from Peking University in 2010 , 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014, becoming one of the only ten schools that obtained the same qualification in Shandong Province. To keep pace with the modernized teaching, it has established its own International Department. By jointly developing the educational career  with  foreigners,  it  has  created more convenient conditions for the students to go abroad for further study and multicultural education.

    The school has been awarded “the National Advanced Group in Moral Education of Primary and Secondary School” by the national Ministry of Education and “the Advanced Unit in Ideological and Political Work” by the government of Shandong Province. In addition, it has also been successively granted the honors of “the Civilized Unit of Shandong  Province”, “the  Quality-oriented Education Experimental School of Shandong Province”, “the School in Developing Traditional PE-events of Shandong Province”, “the Advanced Group in Moral Work of Shandong Province”, “the Advanced Unit in Experimental Study of Creativity Training of Shandong Province”, and “the Advanced Literature and Art School of Shandong Province” and so on.

    At present, all the teachers and students are wholly devoting themselves to the construction of an ideal school that the students dream of attending, where the teachers are happy and it is respected by society as well.