The school was founded in 1954, covering an area of 298 mu. There are 25 full-time teachers1person, 78 senior middle school teachers, 0 intermediate teachers 100, and 2,847 students. The school is now a national model worker's home, an advanced unit of education and scientific research in the 11th Five-Year Plan, a provincial standardized school, a provincial demonstration school of audio-visual education, a provincial traditional sports project school, a provincial garden-style unit, a provincial demonstration school of teaching, an advanced unit of school-based teaching and research, an advanced unit of managing schools according to law and an advanced unit of democratic management in the whole province. It has maintained the honor of "civilized unit" in the province for 24 consecutive years, and has been awarded the title of "advanced unit of teaching and educating people" in the city year after year.

Over the years, Ningyang No.1 Middle School has adhered to the school-running philosophy of "taking pioneering and enterprising as the main theme, emancipating the mind, renewing ideas, comprehensively implementing the education policy, comprehensively implementing quality education and creatively carrying out all kinds of work", and implemented the education project of "Let every life shine", forming an excellent school spirit of "sincere unity, forge ahead, all-round development and strive for first-class". The school environment is beautiful and there are all kinds of rooms for teaching and living. The national track and field plastic playground and basketball court have been built, and an advanced campus network has been built to connect multimedia teaching classrooms; The library is equipped with an electronic audio-visual reading room, which realizes computer automatic management. The school vigorously strengthens the "three links" classroom reform, implements the teaching mode of exploring and dispelling doubts, and creates a "student-oriented classroom"; The teaching and research system of "speaking, speaking, evaluating and thinking", the collective lesson preparation system of "preparing lessons every Monday" and the routine inspection system of "daily inspection, weekly evaluation and monthly feedback" have been implemented. Strengthen the cultivation of students' "three self-abilities" (self-management, self-education and independent development); The implementation of the strategy of "research school" was established by the Provincial Department of Education as the designated contact school and lead school for the curriculum reform of ordinary high schools in Shandong Province. More than 10 research results have been used or used for reference by brother schools inside and outside the province.

During the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period, the school will strive to build into a humanistic research-oriented high school with standardized management, full of vitality, talented people, social satisfaction and distinctive characteristics. The school curriculum system will be further improved, the teaching staff will be obviously optimized, the school-running characteristics will become increasingly prominent, and the quality and efficiency of education will be significantly improved.

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