The top ten primary schools in Datong are Yifu Primary School, Datong Experimental Primary School, Haoyang Bilingual Primary School, Datong No.3 Primary School, Datong No.18 Primary School, Datong No.33 School, Datong Golden Apple Bilingual Primary School, Datong No.7 Primary School, Datong No.45 School and Datong No.14 Primary School.

Yifu Primary School in Datong City, located at No.289 Xinquan Street, Pingcheng District, Datong City, was founded in 1996. The school has 2 17 full-time teachers, more than 4,000 students and 73 classes. The school aims at "all for the development of students" and aims at "running a school suitable for children's growth and promoting education suitable for children's growth"

Adhere to the strategy of deep integration of information technology and education and teaching, pay attention to the construction of high-quality educational resources in schools, strengthen the deep application of online learning space, try mixed learning teaching mode, and embark on a road of running schools with information technology as a breakthrough, scientific research as the guide, cultural establishment, scientific research promoting teaching and information strengthening. This school is a digital campus demonstration school in Shanxi Province, and also an excellent school for online learning space application and activities in China.

The 18th Primary School in Pingcheng District of Datong City, founded in 1963, is an advanced school in national civilized campus and the first batch of demonstration primary schools in Shanxi Province. There are 102 classes with more than 5,600 students and nearly 300 faculty members. National model teachers, provincial special-grade teachers, academic leaders at all levels in provinces and cities, teaching experts, backbones and famous teachers account for more than three quarters.

The school takes the multicultural "benefit" as the theme, revolves around the five themes of "children's benefit, teachers' benefit, school's benefit, parents' benefit and general benefit", takes "moral education" as the fundamental task, adheres to the core concept of "laying the foundation for every child's growth, success and success" and takes "giving in many ways" as the school-running strategy.

Focusing on "double reduction", improving quality and increasing efficiency, the school has built an intelligent classroom teaching system of "three studies" to ensure the all-round development of students' morality, intelligence, physique and aesthetics, and won the first place in the primary school sports meeting in Pingcheng District of Datong City for six consecutive years.

The school has successively won the honors of National Red Flag Young Pioneers Brigade, National Engineering Demonstration School, National Teacher Training Base and Provincial Compulsory Education Demonstration School.