"Sports School" is an upgraded version of previous sports teams.
Sports school, a collection of a lot of sports training, mostly Olympic sports, may also include some local characteristics and traditional sports in China (martial arts is a traditional sports).
Athletes in sports schools generally represent the highest level of local sports competitions, such as provincial sports technical schools, which are actually former provincial sports teams. In contrast, the previous sports teams did not have cultural classes. For example, Jet Li was the first group of Wushu athletes in the sports team. At that time, he only practiced martial arts since he was a child, but never studied culture.
Nowadays, all sports technical schools should have cultural classes, but the forms are different from place to place.
Because the age span of athletes is too big, it is impossible for all of them to have cultural classes.
In the compulsory education stage, it is usually sent to public schools for half a day's education, and then returned for half a day's technical training. (just roughly arranged)
After compulsory education, I will study high school courses and get a college diploma.
Further up, provincial athletes, especially the first-team players, are generally first-class athletes and will be affiliated with a university, but their training is still in a sports school.