Xupu County No.1 Middle School is located in Zaozipo, the eastern suburb of Xupu County, with beautiful scenery and talented people. She was founded in the autumn of 1938, formerly known as No.9 Middle School of Hunan Province, and entered the ranks of key middle schools in Huaihua area in the first batch of 1980. She is one of the largest complete middle schools in Huaihua City, and now she is a model ordinary high school in Hunan Province.

The school covers an area of 9467 1 m2, with an average campus area of 39. 1 m2. The school has a total construction area of 52,980 square meters and an average teaching area of 9.9 square meters. The green area is 54,574 square meters, and the per capita green area is 22.5 square meters. There are 249 faculty members, including 8 1 senior teachers and 95 first-class teachers. There are 2873 students in 54 classes.

Focusing on the goal of "high-quality, high-grade, distinctive and modern" provincial model high school, the school strictly follows the basic conditions for the construction of model ordinary high schools in Hunan Province, and fully implements the school-running concept of "people-oriented, all-round development, publicity of individuality and pursuit of Excellence". The management level has been continuously improved and the conditions for running schools have been greatly improved.

More than 38 million yuan was invested in school construction and the purchase of teaching facilities and equipment. Two teaching buildings, a science and education building, a living service building, three student apartments and five teacher apartments have been built successively; The school gate and the "realistic" cultural square were built with high standards.

The upgrading of teaching instruments, teaching equipment and facilities has been completed in an all-round way: science, chemistry and biology laboratories have been assembled according to the first-class national standards, and computer rooms, courseware making rooms, multimedia rooms, language labs, students' reading rooms and teachers' reading rooms have been newly equipped. Campus broadcasting systems, electronic monitoring systems, campus networks and digital book management systems have been installed, and multimedia teaching has been realized in all classrooms.

The differences between key high schools and ordinary high schools are as follows:

1. Key high schools have stronger teachers and environment: Key high schools have higher welfare benefits, which can attract and retain many excellent teachers.

2. The learning atmosphere in key high schools is better: most of the students in key high schools are selected excellent students with strong learning atmosphere.

3. Key high schools have more enrollment resources: the recommended places of some key universities are only available in key high schools.