The Beijing Municipal Education Commission reiterated that according to the Compulsory Education Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), schools are not allowed to set up key classes and non-key classes in compulsory education. Encourage schools to pay attention to students' personality development, randomly divide students into parallel classes according to their various specialties, pay attention to the micro-balance within the education system, and build a harmonious campus and class environment conducive to students' growth.

The Beijing Municipal Education Commission pointed out that students, teachers and schools should develop harmoniously, respect each child's right to grow, strive to form diversified and ecological student groups in schools and classes, and create opportunities for children to communicate, learn and cooperate at various levels, so that they can learn to help others and get help from others in extensive exchanges, learn to learn to seek knowledge, learn to do things, learn to live together and learn to be human. According to the requirements of the Municipal Education Commission, schools at all levels and types are not allowed to take students' academic performance as the basis for admission and placement.

Extended data:

Xinjiang stipulates that primary and secondary school exams may not publish results:

The Education Department of the Autonomous Region promulgated the Interim Measures of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region for Standardizing the Management of Running Schools in Primary and Secondary Schools. Students shall not be evaluated by academic performance as the sole criterion, and their examination results shall not be published. Students and schools are not allowed to rank according to exam results. The relevant person in charge of the Education Department of the autonomous region said that the purpose of the Measures is to focus on solving the outstanding problems in the school-running behavior of primary and secondary schools that the people are most concerned about, to run every school well, and to promote the all-round and healthy development of young students.

The autonomous region requires all localities to strictly control the number of examinations. Primary school can take the final exam once every semester, and junior high school can take it no more than twice every semester. Education administrative departments and teaching and research institutions at the prefecture and county levels shall not hold regional unified and joint examinations for primary and junior high schools. Ordinary high schools should strictly control the number of exams. Except the third grade, in principle, no regional unified examination or mock examination shall be held, and the examination content shall not exceed the requirements stipulated in the curriculum standards.

References:

People's Daily Online-Beijing: Primary schools and junior high schools are not allowed to be divided into classes according to their academic performance.