Xi No.85 Middle School is a provincial and municipal key middle school directly under the Municipal Education Bureau. Founded in 1952, the original name was Xi Workers and Peasants Accelerated Middle School and Shaanxi Normal University No.2 Middle School, and it was renamed as its current name in 1972. In the course of running a school for more than half a century, the school has its own characteristics, such as scientific and advanced concept of running a school, pure and simple school spirit, diligent and enterprising style of study, rigorous and exquisite teaching style, normal education and students' strong points in learning. In particular, well-known universities in China have sent a large number of outstanding freshmen and trained tens of thousands of construction talents for the society. Most of them have become the best in their industries and systems. Jing Qin, a gold medal winner in the international mathematics competition, Lu Hao, a graduate of Peking University and now the vice mayor of Beijing, and Wang Libin, now the head coach of Shaanxi Gaitianli Men's Basketball Team, are typical representatives of the graduates of this school. The school was commended by the State Council for its outstanding achievements in running schools.
The school is located in the southern suburbs of Xi City, surrounded by many universities and research institutes, with dense primary and secondary schools and rich cultural atmosphere. Covering an area of 53,360 square meters, it is a middle school in the suburb of Xi 'an, with beautiful campus environment, reasonable layout, complete education and teaching facilities, advanced interactive teaching network, modern astronomical observation room, 2 multimedia classrooms, 3 computer rooms and 2 language laboratories, 1 classroom. There are 4 physical laboratories, 3 chemical laboratories and 2 biological laboratories: biological specimens 1497, including 389 self-made specimens, ranking first in Xi and even the whole province. The library has more than 40,000 books, more than 30 kinds of newspapers 1.30, and a staff reading room and a student reading room, which can accommodate more than 200 students and 50 teachers at the same time. Sports facilities are complete, including gym, track and field, football field, volleyball court, basketball court, table tennis court, gymnastics room and fitness field. There are standardized student canteens and student apartments, which can accommodate more than 400 people. The first-class humanistic environment, good campus atmosphere and modern teaching auxiliary facilities have created extremely favorable conditions for students to become talents.
The school takes "promoting students' all-round harmonious development and personality development" as its school-running philosophy, "cultivating first-class teams, creating first-class environment, creating first-class management and striving for first-class quality" as its management goal, actively implements the strategy of "developing the school by quality, making research school", relies on teachers, works hard, and makes every effort to explore and actively practice new ways, new ideas and new methods to improve the quality and efficiency of running schools under the new situation.
The school has 136 faculty members, of whom 98% have bachelor degree or above, 17 have graduated and are studying for a master's degree in education, 42 are senior teachers, 54 are first-class teachers, 3 are municipal backbone teachers and teaching experts, 2 are municipal cross-century discipline leaders, 2 are municipal teachers' morality pacesetter 1 person, 2 are provincial teaching experts and provincial backbone teachers. The national advanced individual 1 person, the school has formed a team of teachers with reasonable age structure and exquisite professional skills, which provides excellent teacher guarantee for the majority of students to receive high-quality high school education. At present, the school has 5 school leaders, including president 1 person, secretary 1 person, 2 vice presidents and assistant president 1 person, all of whom have been trained and have qualification certificates.
The school has always attached importance to team building as an inexhaustible motive force for the school's sustainable development, strengthened the education and learning of professional ethics, especially honesty, widely carried out "honesty education and teaching for the people" among the teaching staff, adhered to the people-oriented principle, and provided a good atmosphere and necessary humanistic care for the improvement of teachers' professional level: strengthened the inspection and guidance of teachers' regular teaching, promoted the continuous improvement of teachers' professional quality, and paid attention to keeping people in career and work.
The school pays more attention to the quality of education and teaching, and regards it as the lifeline of the school. Paying close attention to the construction of teachers' morality can improve teachers' sense of responsibility in caring for their posts and teaching and educating people: adopting scientific conventional management methods and means, focusing on five links, such as preparing lessons, attending lectures, tutoring, correcting homework and testing, implementing the "monthly examination" system, increasing the intensity and frequency of teaching tests, promoting the inspection and feedback of conventional teaching, actively encouraging teachers to conduct academic research, promoting the improvement of teachers' academic level, and extensively carrying out various teaching evaluation activities. Promote the improvement of education and teaching level, actively carry out courseware making competition, promote the modernization of teaching methods, regularly carry out teaching paper appraisal activities, promote the improvement of teachers' teaching and scientific research ability, implement the "tutorial system", promote the improvement of young teachers' professional quality and professional ability through "pairing with teachers", adhere to the "attending class system", promote the improvement of classroom teaching effect, hold various symposiums regularly, and listen to the opinions and suggestions of students and parents in time. Solve the problems existing in education and teaching in time-the school always adheres to the people-oriented principle in teaching management, provides a good humanistic environment for teachers' education and teaching to the maximum extent, and actively builds a platform and creates conditions for the growth of young teachers, the realization of self-worth of middle-aged teachers and the sublimation of education for elderly teachers.
Under the correct and powerful leadership of the school leaders and the joint efforts of all teachers and students, the quality of education and teaching in the school is also improving steadily. In recent years, the college entrance examination has achieved good results. The online rate of college entrance examination is over 1.00%, the online rate of undergraduates is over 80%, and the online rate of key universities is over 64%. At the same time, the school insists on scientific research as the guide and encourages teachers to actively carry out teaching and scientific research. In recent years, the faculty published more than 40 papers in journals at or above the provincial level every year, which made great achievements in provincial and municipal competitions. For a long time, the school has been paying close attention to the construction of teaching staff, constantly improving the conditions for running schools, focusing on "all-round development and highlighting characteristics", making great efforts to strengthen management, constantly improving teaching quality and school-running efficiency, taking the learning practice of new educational theory and the reform and innovation of school-running system as a breakthrough, vigorously promoting quality education, steadily improving the quality of education and teaching, and achieving fruitful results. It has successively won the honorary titles of Xi "Civilized Campus", "Advanced Collective of Moral Education in Middle Schools", "Advanced Unit of Traditional Sports Schools", "Excellent School of Quality Education Supervision and Evaluation", "The First Experimental School of Research Learning in Xi", "Shaanxi Provincial Model School of Popularizing Laws" and "Star School in the Eyes of Millions of Readers of Huashang Daily".
The school also attaches great importance to moral education as the fundamental guarantee for students' healthy growth. Adhering to the Outline of Civic Moral Construction and Several Opinions of the Central Committee and the State Council on Further Strengthening and Improving the Ideological and Moral Construction of Minors, the school focuses on life education, patriotism education, collectivism education, Chinese traditional virtue education, civilization and courtesy education and law-abiding education, and actively explores new ways and methods of moral education under the network environment. In the long-term practice, eight characteristics of moral education have been gradually formed, which are "ideal education pays attention to faith, traditional education pays attention to patriotism, conventional education pays attention to habits, theme activities pay attention to infiltration, emotional education pays attention to care, legal education pays attention to prevention, online education pays attention to innovation, and community education pays attention to construction", all of which promote students' all-round, harmonious and healthy growth.