Nanyang No.1 Middle School, founded in 1903, is a public middle school in charge of Nanyang Education Bureau, a demonstration ordinary high school in Henan Province, a municipal demonstration high school in Nanyang City, the first batch of comprehensive innovation high schools in Henan Province, an advanced collective in the national education system, and the first batch of Sino-Finnish cooperative innovation demonstration base schools in China.
As of May 20 19, the school has infrastructure such as teaching building, lecture hall, canteen and student dormitory. There are bell tower, sail observation deck, compass sculpture, master garden, school history museum, respect for teachers pavilion, Sangong monument, Han painting wall and monument sculpture in the school.
In April, 2020, the official website of the school showed that the school had the Shu Ren Prize, the Tao Jin Yucai Scholarship, the New Award and other awards and grants in South China.