The school was founded in 1963, when it was a complete middle school directly under the city. It was once recognized as the city's key middle school by 1978, and became a complete high school after 1986 canceled junior high school. At the same time, it is recognized as an ordinary high school and has been placed in nangang district since 1989. 1998 was recognized as "the basic school for cultivating outstanding sports and art reserve talents in Heilongjiang Province" by the Education Committee of Heilongjiang Province, and was named as the source base of art college of Harbin Normal University in 2003. In 2006, it was declared as a provincial demonstration high school. In 2007, it became the school of visual arts Student Source Base of Fudan University and the excellent sports talent training base of Harbin Institute of Technology. Since 2006, the school and Harbin Hualong Basketball Club have jointly trained high-level female basketball players.

In the past two years, the school has been rated as one of the top 100 national moral education research schools, a provincial model school for new curriculum reform, a provincial model school for civilized units, a provincial advanced unit for safety and civilization, an advanced unit for ideological and moral construction of minors at the municipal level, an advanced collective for military and civilian co-education, a municipal model school for campus culture, an advanced collective model for municipal education system, and an advanced collective for improving teaching quality in urban areas. The quality and reputation of the school have been generally recognized by the society and parents, and have also been fully affirmed by the higher-level government and the education administrative department. CCTV, Harbin TV, China Education News, Life News, Hongqi and other news media all made special reports on the development of the school.

Hundreds of famous moral education research schools in China.

National advanced collective of ecological experience education

Model of civilized units in Heilongjiang Province

Gold Award Unit of Quality Education in Heilongjiang Province

Heilongjiang province excellent teaching quality student parents satisfaction school

First prize of outstanding achievement of "Research on the effectiveness of classroom teaching under the new curriculum concept" in Heilongjiang Province.

Advanced collective pacesetter of Harbin education system

Harbin ordinary senior high school is an advanced school that promotes quality education in an all-round way and improves the quality of education in a large area.