Datong Culture and Art School, founded in 1956, is the only public comprehensive art school in northern Shanxi and its surrounding areas. Schools now have majors such as music, dance, art and drama, while adult colleges have majors such as music education, art education, musicology, history and primary education. The school has two campuses, covering an area of 1400 square meters. Faculty 146, including 9 with senior lecturer qualification; 49 people with lecturer qualifications. There are 570 students in the school; More than 3,000 graduates. Some of them went to colleges and universities. Especially in recent years, more and more students who graduated from our school have been admitted to colleges and universities, and many students have become outstanding talents in the art world. In recent years, more than 20 school dance programs and music programs have been performed on CCTV and provincial TV stations, and more than 200 works of art have won prizes in international, national and provincial exhibitions. Due to the outstanding achievements of the school, it has been commended by the higher authorities many times. Among them, Shanxi Provincial Government awarded "Advanced Collective for Teaching and Educating People", Shanxi Provincial Department of Culture awarded "Excellent Education" plaque and "Model School" title, and Datong Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government awarded "Model School" honorary title.

In May 2002, after the establishment of the new school leadership team, on the basis of inheriting the tradition and giving full play to its advantages, it followed the working idea of "rectifying the school spirit, managing the campus environment and creating a civilized campus", focusing on "strengthening team building, strengthening teacher training, improving school conditions and improving teaching quality" and taking "unity inside, development outside, strong quality inside and image outside" as its work. Taking "running the school according to law and standardizing management" as the working mode and "cultivating political ethics by cadres"; Teachers should cultivate teachers' morality; Students cultivate morality; " As the main content, with the goal of cultivating artistic talents who can represent the direction of advanced culture, we are moving towards the goal of building the school into a first-class cultural and artistic school full of vitality, civilization and health, standardized and orderly, clean and tidy.