Shatian town is famous for its excellent atmosphere and tradition of "respecting teachers and attaching importance to education". Successive party committees and governments attached great importance to education, formulated and implemented the strategy of "rejuvenating the town through science and education", and insisted on investing as much as possible in education funds under the extremely poor office conditions of the town government, thus ensuring the priority development of education.
In the process of educational reform and development, shatian town adheres to the socialist direction of running schools, is pragmatic and innovative, and is pioneering and enterprising, vigorously promotes the work of "nine-year compulsory education", constantly improves the overall level and quality of popularizing nine-year compulsory education, optimizes the allocation of educational resources, and rationally adjusts the layout of junior high schools and primary schools. 1999 passed the acceptance of "nine-year compulsory education" at the provincial level with high standards and high quality. Since 2006, the enrollment rate of preschool children in shatian town has reached 100%, the enrollment rate of primary school-age children has reached 100%, the enrollment rate of junior high school has reached 100%, and the graduation rate of junior high school has reached over 97.2%.
Since 2003, the construction of standardized schools in shatian town has been accelerated. According to the requirements of "overall layout and long-term planning", the educational environment is constantly optimized. School buildings, walls and roads in primary and secondary schools have been continuously improved, and the campus has been beautified, afforested and purified. The appearance of the school has obviously improved, and a number of district-level schools such as Shatian Middle School, Shatian Central Primary School and Dong 'ao Primary School have emerged. At the same time, the primary and secondary schools in the town have also acquired a large number of modern education and teaching equipment, and built 22 multimedia teaching platforms, 5 multimedia classrooms, 8 computer rooms, 3 10 computers and 7 computer campus networks. The man-machine ratio of middle school students is 57/ 1000, and that of primary school students is 1 18/ 1000. Shatian Middle School and Central Primary School have set up information technology courses to popularize information technology education in primary and secondary schools.
With the further improvement of the educational environment, the teaching quality in shatian town has also been comprehensively improved. In terms of teaching results, the passing rate of Chinese, mathematics and English graduation examinations in primary schools is over 90.4%, and the passing rate of junior high school graduates in all subjects is over 90.3%. The number of people admitted to key high schools and ordinary high schools in Shatian Middle School has increased year by year, and the admission rate is among the best in junior high schools in the whole region. The quality of students has been well received by the admitted schools. In terms of subject competitions, 0/6 people in the whole town won 2 national competitions, 2 provincial competitions, 6 municipal competitions and 92 district competitions.
According to the requirements of educational modernization, shatian town constantly strengthens the construction of teachers' ideological, political and professional ethics, pays attention to improving teachers' professional level, actively explores the education and teaching management mechanism that meets the needs of educational modernization development, insists on holding the town-wide teaching competition and the selection of outstanding teachers and outstanding head teachers every year, and is committed to building a high-quality teaching team and teaching management team. In recent years, primary and secondary schools in shatian town have undertaken national and provincial projects 1, 3 district-level projects, and 2 projects have been completed. Shatian town teachers published 4 teaching papers in provincial newspapers and periodicals, and 4 teaching papers in municipal newspapers and periodicals, and 42 papers were awarded at or above the district level.