Nanjing No.13 Middle School was founded in 1955. In 1960s, it was designated as a provincial key point, and it was restored as a provincial key point in 1996. In 2000, it was accepted by the national model ordinary high school.
Nanjing No.13 Middle School currently has three branches in Nanjing:
They are Nanjing No.13 Middle School Kelihua Branch, Nanjing No.13 Middle School Suojin Branch and Nanjing No.13 Middle School Hongshan Branch, all of which are junior middle schools.
Nanjing No.13 Middle School is located in the city center, next to the Drum Tower and Xuanwu Lake, with convenient transportation and quiet in the middle of the noise. Covering an area of 72 mu, it is the largest school in the city. The campus is quiet, tree-lined and fragrant all the year round. It is one of the top ten landscape campuses in Nanjing, a four-star high school in Jiangsu Province and a national model high school. In recent years, it has been rated as a civilized unit in Jiangsu Province for three times in a row, and in 2005, it was rated as an "advanced unit of education development in Nanjing during the Tenth Five-Year Plan" at the Nanjing Education Work Conference.
The school motto is "winning", which means "aiming at China, aiming high, aiming at the first class, and those who are determined to win", "walking well" means "walking at your feet, walking today, walking in the details, and the walker will succeed". "Winning" embodies the concept of "focusing on the overall situation and starting small" and forms "taking this as an example"