History
The School was founded on March 5, 1949. It combined urban No.1 Middle School, No.2 Middle School and private “MingXin” Middle School in Zhengzhou. It was named the high school of Zhengzhou City. Qi Luyu, the minister of publicity department of Zhengzhou city government was appointed to be the first headmaster. At that time, there were only seven classes, 249 students in total and 26 teachers and staff members. In March, 1953, the scale expanded and changed its name into “Zhengzhou No.1 Advanced School in Henan Province”
In August, 1956 the school moved to Nanyang Road in Zhengzhou.
In 1959 it was elected to be one of the key Middle schools in Zhengzhou.
In 2005, Zhengzhou NO.1 Middle School built up a new school campus in Zhongyuan Xi Road. The area of new campus is about 331 mus.
In 2007, it was elected to be one of the top 100 Middle Schools in China.
Today there are over 2,500 students studying and about 200 teachers and staff members working at the school.
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