The school was founded in 1953, and gradually developed from a military children's school into a municipal key junior high school in the 1980s, and was awarded as "a municipal first-class school" in May of 1998. At present, there are three campuses, namely Xiaxiping Road, Fengyuan Road Middle Experimental Branch and Chengnan Chinese-English School, with 6/kloc-0 classes, more than 3,700 students and 223 faculty members. It is an excellent school for teaching in Chaozhou, an advanced unit for campus culture construction in Chaozhou, a civilized unit in Chaozhou, a green school in Guangdong Province, an advanced school for implementing the two regulations on sports and health in Guangdong Province, a resource and national defense education activity base in Guangdong Province, an advanced unit for national self-study examination, an experimental base for the tenth five-year key project of national education science, and a cooperative research school for the construction project of national education resource bank.
Chengnan Middle School takes "morality first, quality first, students' lifelong development needs" as its school-running philosophy, attaches importance to scientific management, optimizes the educational environment, takes humanization of educational methods, modernization of educational means and individualization of students' training as its goal, and takes information technology as its breakthrough, thus breaking a new path in running a school.
Chengnan Middle School has a "united, pragmatic, innovative and enterprising" leading group and a team of teachers who are dedicated, diligent in management and good at teaching. At present, there are 2 provincial backbone teachers, 8 famous teachers at the municipal and district levels, and 6 district academic leaders. Six teachers have successively won the titles of "Excellent Teachers in South Guangdong" and "Rookie in South Guangdong Teaching". In recent years, the passing rate and excellent rate of senior high school entrance examination are among the best in Chaozhou. Teachers and students have achieved excellent results in various competitions at national, provincial, municipal and district levels, and the quality of education and teaching has steadily improved. The school has undertaken the research work of eight national and provincial scientific research projects, such as "Research on the Integration Model of Information Technology and Junior High School Teaching", and has successfully completed four projects, with remarkable educational and scientific research achievements.
The headmaster's surname is Zhou.