Nanjing Jinling Middle School was founded in 1888. At present, it is the first batch of national demonstration high schools, the first batch of four-star high schools in Jiangsu Province, the first batch of pilot schools for cultivating top-notch innovative talents in ordinary high schools in Jiangsu Province, Jiangsu Province demonstration schools, Jiangsu Province advanced schools for moral education, "National Top Ten Schools for Scientific and Technological Innovation Education", "Song Qingling's Demonstration Base for Children's Scientific and Technological Invention", "china adolescent robotics competition Excellent School", National Sports Red Flag School and National Advanced Mass Sports Collective.

In the course of more than 30 years, the school has trained more than 60,000 graduates, including Nobel Prize in Literature winner 1 person, 26 academicians of the two academies, 6 winners of international Olympic medals in five disciplines and winners of provincial and municipal college entrance examinations 1 person.

Over the years, the school has adhered to the motto of "honesty, truthfulness, diligence and kindness", and has formed distinctive school-running characteristics-the combination of humanistic spirit and scientific spirit, the combination of rigorous scholarship and pioneering and innovative, and the combination of respecting teachers and attaching importance to teaching and personality growth.

In recent years, the school takes "moral education as the core" and pays attention to the "free growth" of teachers and students, and has achieved fruitful results in curriculum reform, subject competition, top-notch innovative talent training, career planning and so on.

The school has won two second prizes of national teaching achievement awards, two special prizes of Jiangsu teaching achievement awards and two first prizes of Jiangsu teaching achievement awards. At present, there are two provincial-level curriculum bases, namely, sensor-based materialization curriculum base and positive psychology-oriented career planning curriculum base for senior high school students, as well as Jiangsu forward-looking education reform project "Self-knowledge: career planning platform construction" and Jiangsu high-end experimental innovation center of chemical competition.

The school unites colleges and universities to innovate talent training methods, including "Nanjing University _ Jinling Middle School Associate Doctor Training Station" and "Southeast University _ Jinling Middle School Future Excellent Engineer Training Base".