The school is people-oriented, promotes education through scientific research, establishes the school-running concept of "high, unique, harmonious and beautiful", adheres to "reform as the driving force and development as the purpose", actively explores new ways of educational management system reform, and pursues modern educational taste from a high starting point and in all directions. It was recognized as "the basic modern school of education" by Suzhou, "the provincial civilized unit" and "the provincial civilized school" by Jiangsu Province, and "the modern educational technology school" by the Ministry of Education. It is a demonstration school of modern mathematics teaching in Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and also the experimental base of Institute of Curriculum and Teaching of East China Normal University and People's Education Electronic Audio-visual Publishing House. The school has 1 national training objectives, 3 provincial training objectives, 4 municipal academic leaders, and more than 50 district academic leaders and key teachers. A large number of teachers with professionalism, expertise and strong teaching characteristics are thriving, and young teachers actively participate in basic education competitions at or above the municipal level and have achieved excellent results.
The school has established a scholarship system, which grants scholarships to a group of students with academic expertise and excellent academic performance every year. Excellent educational conditions and space play a positive role in improving the quality of education. The school strengthens the development of activity courses and pays attention to the development of students' personality. The Ginkgo Art Troupe established by the whole school has a huge lineup and remarkable achievements. Its members range from grade one to grade nine, covering vocal music, dance, instrumental music, art, photography, crafts and other categories. The works of students of Ginkgo Literature Society are frequently employed by newspapers at all levels. Ginkgo Bilingual Salon provides students with a space and environment for daily communication in English. In order to broaden students' horizons, the school opened its doors, strengthened inter-school educational exchanges at home and abroad, and established educational contacts with more than ten schools in Australia, Singapore, Britain and other countries. Education and student delegations from the United States, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong and other places come to visit and exchange irregularly, and the school has also sent teachers and students delegations to visit.
The school has received more than 50 batches of international and domestic education delegations/kloc-0, and has been reported by various news, media and publicity for nearly 500 times. Teachers have won more than 50 honorary titles in urban areas and above 150, nearly 400 papers have been published in newspapers and periodicals at all levels, and students have won more than 400 prizes in competitions above the municipal level 1400. Many teachers have participated in international academic exchanges on behalf of the school and returned to China with honors.