College Entrance Examination Factory —— Context of Hengshui Model
Even the locals can't tell the difference between Hengshui No.1 Middle School and Hengshui. But all this will end in the future. On February 1 1, 2022, "Hengshui No.1 Middle School" was officially renamed as "Hengshui Taihua Middle School", a private school with the title of traditional public school, and it has since recovered its original appearance.
There is no one in Hengshui, and the background behind winning this gold-lettered signboard is naturally unusual. Hengshui, founded in 195 1, is an old school in Hebei province. After Li 1992 became the principal, the school was transformed into a closed and paramilitary boarding school. Since then, the enrollment rate of Hengshui has rapidly risen to the forefront of the province.
In 20 14, Hengshui invested 900 million yuan to establish Hengshui No.1 Middle School in cooperation with Hebei Taihua Jinye Real Estate Development Co., Ltd., the school funds came from enterprises, and the teachers and management were "balanced", thus opening the famous overseas "college entrance examination factory" model.
This is a typical "prestigious school running a private school". Students in Hengzhong usually call Hengzhong the "headquarters" and No.1 Middle School the "South Campus". The two schools share a set of management system, teachers, teaching resources, and even the papers and rankings used in the usual exams are mixed.
Public schools are famous for their excellent college entrance examination results accumulated in their early years, while private schools take advantage of the system to recruit students for the whole province and recruit outstanding students at all costs. Stubborn students further promoted the results of the college entrance examination.
Hengshui No.1 Middle School was established only one year ago, and it has been favored by candidates in Hebei Province. Its enrollment scale is three times that of Hengshui, and 80% of the students come from outside Hengshui, so it is a "super middle school". Excellent students, combined with sea tactics, semi-closed management, strict schedule and other blessings, Hengshui No.1 Middle School quickly achieved college entrance examination results that stood out from the whole province and shocked the whole country.
In 20 16, the top four students in Hebei province were all taken over by the students of these two schools. In 20 18, more than 200 senior three students from these two schools were admitted to Tsinghua of Peking University. Hengshui model has attracted media reports all over the country. Every once in a while, topics related to Hengzhong can rush to Weibo for hot search.
Hengshui also took advantage of the trend and began to capitalize, and the branch schools under the banner of "Hengshui" began to blossom everywhere. According to incomplete statistics of the media, as of September, 2002 1, Hengshui had 21branches in different provinces and cities in China, and the farthest branch opened in Xinjiang. Even began to launch a plan to go public in the United States.
In 202 1 year, the comfort of all competitions around the land came to an abrupt end. According to the original Regulations on the Implementation of the Law on the Promotion of Private Education, private schools should achieve "five independences", namely "independent legal person, independent running school, independent finance, independent enrollment and independent certification". However, the inextricable relationship between Hengshui No.1 Middle School and Hengshui School has been criticized.
20 17 The Education Department of Hebei Province and the Education Bureau of Hengshui City launched a special investigation on Hengshui No.1 Middle School and Hengshui School, and put forward rectification opinions and demanded that they be deleted. However, in the face of interests, the broadsword was heavily lifted and gently dropped.