The school attaches importance to cultivating students' autonomy, initiative and creativity, and comprehensively improves the teaching quality. The students of Taonan No.1 Middle School have achieved good rankings in the competitions of mathematics, science, culture, English and science and technology organized by the whole province and the whole country. Over the years, the college entrance examination rate has remained at around 80%. The admission rate of key undergraduate and ordinary undergraduate has reached the leading level in Baicheng. Famous universities such as Peking University, Tsinghua, University of Science and Technology, and People's Congress are on the list every year.

The school has been commended by the party and the government for many times. Since 2002, it has been named as "advanced unit of spiritual civilization construction" by CPC Jilin Provincial Committee and Jilin Provincial People's Government, awarded as "advanced unit" by CPC Baicheng Municipal Committee and Baicheng Municipal People's Government, and awarded as "advanced unit of teaching and scientific research" and "advanced unit of running schools according to law" by Baicheng Education Bureau.

In recent years, the level of education and teaching has been continuously improved, and it has been named as: distance education demonstration school of middle school affiliated to Peking University, practice base school of Northeast Normal University, innovative writing and experiment base school of China Language Association, experimental school of mental health education, demonstration school of audio-visual education in Jilin Province, and demonstration school of primary and secondary school libraries in Jilin Province.