The secondary art school affiliated to the Central Academy of Fine Arts, referred to as Sino-American High School for short, is the only secondary art school directly under the Ministry of Education in China. The middle school attached to Yangmei enrolls junior high school graduates whose age is not more than 18 for the whole country. This is a middle school.

The school has a strong faculty, with more than 90 faculty members and more than 0,000 students/kloc-0. It has perfect teaching facilities and first-class campus environment, with professional classrooms, open studios, cultural classrooms, students' electronic reading rooms, community activity rooms and multimedia classrooms. The library has more than 654.38 million books and 2 13 professional periodicals.