Hengyang City No. 2 Middle School is located on the bank of the Xiangjiang River, looking at Nanyue in the north, absorbing the aura of Sanxiang and the beauty of Zhonghengyue. With a long history of a hundred years, it has pioneered modern secondary education in Hengyang, with simplicity and honesty. The school spirit and teaching style, knowledgeable people, benefiting the four townships, from Lianhu Academy to the establishment of Hengqing Government Middle School in 1906, through West Lake Middle School, Hengyang County Middle School, Municipal Middle School, and then to Hengyang City No. 2 Middle School, from small to large , from weak to strong, it has now developed into a modern complete middle school with 50 teaching classes and more than 3,000 teachers and students. The school has a long-standing reputation and is home to numerous talents. Outstanding educators Zeng Xi and Zeng Shu were former principals of the school. Famous figures such as the famous contemporary writer Tang Haoming and the famous painter Zhong Zengya once studied in the school.
The school has a first-class teaching staff, with 206 current teaching staff, including 98 senior teachers and 96 intermediate teachers. Since the 1980s, 5 teachers have been rated as special teachers, 12 teachers have been awarded the title of "Excellent Teacher" at the national and provincial levels, 1 teacher has been awarded the title of National Teacher Ethics Model, and 2 teachers have been awarded the "National Talent Instructor Award" , one teacher won the "Xu Teli Education Award", and 8 teachers won the provincial-level physics, chemistry, biology Olympiad and the "Gardener Award" for scientific and technological invention. In recent years, school teachers have won more than 120 awards in outstanding course competitions at or above the municipal level, including 7 national awards and 29 provincial awards. Teacher Xiang Diwei won the first prize in the National Physics Quality Course Competition. The scientific research results and papers on teacher education have won 149 awards, including 16 national awards and 19 provincial awards. The "Middle School Chemistry Experiment Box" developed by teacher Fan Fenfang won the national patent and the first prize of the National Science and Technology Education Invention Award. The project "Development and Application of the Middle School Experiment Box" won the first prize of the Hunan Provincial Education and Scientific Research Achievements.
The school has the first-class school-running conditions in Hengyang City. It has built a well-equipped science and technology building, installed a closed-circuit television dual control system, a computer teaching network and a computer intelligent control broadcast system, and built the "Sanchen Film Library" and First-class indoor and outdoor plastic tracks, a high-standard sports building and student apartments with independent toilets and washrooms. The laboratory, language room, movie screening room, audio-visual education control room, etc. are all equipped according to national Class 1 standards.
The school has determined the "one body, two wings" school-running idea of ??teaching basic cultural knowledge as the main body, supplemented by sports and art specialty education, and has achieved remarkable results. In the past three years, 186 students have won awards in subject competitions, including 26 national awards and 72 provincial awards. Jiang Yanting won the first prize in the National English Olympiad. Liu Hanming, Liu Yuanming, and Tang Chao won the second prize in the National High School Chemistry and Physics Olympiad in 2002, 2003, and 2004 respectively. The passing rate of high school and junior high school graduates in the college entrance examination is above 98, and the college entrance examination scores and college entrance examination admission rate rank among the top three in the city. In 2004, the school admitted 168 undergraduates to the College Entrance Examination at one time, with an admission rate of 86. The school's Olympiad experimental class has a high reputation in society, and its annual college entrance examination admission rate reaches 90%.
The school's sports and art education has yielded fruitful results. Athletes have won 9 gold medals in national competitions, 125 gold medals in provincial competitions, and 432 gold medals at the municipal level. 18 athletes have reached the national first-level athlete standard. It has trained 122 national second-level athletes, and 100 high school graduating athletes have been recommended to universities across the country such as the National University of Defense Technology. 53 students with artistic talents have won national, provincial, and municipal awards, including the dances "Dongting Yumi Township" and "Pinghu Autumn Moon", The chorus "Jiangnan Hao" won the provincial first prize. In the past three years, the school's admission rate for art specialty classes has reached 90%. In 2004, many art specialty students were admitted to the country's first-class universities such as the Central Academy of Fine Arts, the Central Conservatory of Music and the Film Academy.
The school’s academic performance has been recognized by all walks of life and has been commended many times. The school has been listed as Hengyang Key Middle School, Hengyang Education Reform Teaching and Research Demonstration School, Hunan Provincial Modern Education Technology Experimental School, Hunan Provincial Key Middle School for Cultivating Sports Reserve Talents, Wuhan Sports Institute Training Base, Hunan Normal University Art College Hengyang High School, "National Pilot middle school for cultivating sports reserve talents." It has also been awarded 25 honorary titles including "Unit with Outstanding Contributions", "Excellent School", "Model School of Code of Conduct", "Provincial Model School for School Management by Law", and "Advanced Unit in Provincial Education Work".
The school has an advantageous geographical location, elegant campus environment, strong teaching staff, advanced and complete teaching facilities, and outstanding characteristic education. It is a shining pearl in the education sector of Hengyang City.
People-oriented, pioneering and innovative, the people of No. 2 Middle School are still working hard. Under the spring breeze of reform and watered by hard work, Hengyang No. 2 Middle School, this wonderful flower in the teaching garden, will bloom in the wind and be more beautiful than all the other flowers.
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