The school has steadily promoted quality education, adhered to quality-oriented and comprehensively educated people, and formed a unique teaching mode of "teaching students in accordance with their aptitude, teaching at different levels, facing the whole people and reaching standards at different levels" and an artistic education situation with the guiding ideology of "running characteristic schools and cultivating modern talents". A variety of extracurricular interest groups, such as choir, dance team, martial arts team, instrumental band, painting and calligraphy team and sports traditional project team, as well as music and dance classes, art classes and sports training classes, have been established. The quality of education and teaching has been steadily improved, and the art enrollment rate of college entrance examination is among the best in this city. The school has been selected to participate in large-scale artistic activities in urban areas for many times and has been highly praised by all walks of life. In order to improve the level of art education and the quality of teaching and research, Wuwei Youth Art School was established with the approval of the Municipal Education Bureau. The school and the Graduate School of Lanzhou University, the Fine Arts Department of Hexi College and the Music Department of Lanzhou Normal University have become teaching and research cooperation units, creating a new pattern of joint running of colleges and ordinary middle schools. The art education features of "based on No.8 Middle School, facing the society, running schools jointly by colleges and ordinary middle schools, and popularizing and improving" are well-known in the city.