In the past 100 years, the school has been adhering to the motto of "honesty and diligence", and Tao Zhu is full of heroes who never stop singing. Not only the founding leaders have been trained, but also a large number of outstanding talents such as founding generals Chen Geng and Tan Zheng, famous international poet Xiao San, famous social activist Yi, revolutionary martyrs Mao Zetan and Yang, and outstanding scholar Xiao Zisheng have been trained. During the centennial celebration of 1995, the Ministry of Education spoke highly of "Dongshan School made a special contribution to the China Revolution". For a long time, the school has received cordial care from leaders at all levels of the country, province and city. Leaders from Cheng Siwei, Zhiyong Mao, Liu Yongzhi, Shao Hua, Zhou Qiang, Xu Shousheng and other countries and provinces visited the school in person, encouraging the school to carry forward its fine traditions and run a satisfactory education for the people. In recent years, the school has established the school philosophy of "moral education first, quality-oriented, respect for individuality and pursuit of Excellence" and put forward the school objectives of "creating first-class environment, strengthening first-class management, establishing first-class style of study and creating first-class quality". The school now covers an area of nearly 200 mu, with 270 faculty members, including 227 full-time teachers. Among the full-time teachers, there are 88 senior middle school teachers and 74 first-class middle school teachers. Since the resumption of the college entrance examination, the school has sent nearly 10000 outstanding talents to colleges and universities. In recent years, students such as Feng Bo, Dong Chen, Hu Wangcheng, Chen Cheng, Peng Yukun, He Huaxin, Ouyang Yong and Li Jian have been admitted to Peking University and Tsinghua University successively.

Garden-style educational environment, profound humanistic resources, advanced educational and teaching concepts, high-quality teachers and pioneering and innovative leading bodies all provide inexhaustible motive force for the development of Dongshan School. Dongshan people who dare to be the first are striding forward to a high-quality, distinctive and modern national model middle school.