According to the inquiry of Shantou Municipal People's Government, the college entrance examination has achieved remarkable results, and five champions of Guangdong college entrance examination have been trained successively. Among them, in the college entrance examination in 2020, liberal arts students were admitted to Tsinghua with a good score of 655, and science student Zhang was admitted to Peking University with a good score of 680.

Shantou No.1 Middle School refers to Shantou No.1 Middle School, a key middle school directly under Shantou Education Bureau, a national model high school in Guangdong Province, a first-class school in Guangdong Province, a national modern educational technology experimental school, a national youth campus football characteristic school and a Guangdong youth science and technology education characteristic school.