Sanming No.1 Middle School, founded in 1945, is the alma mater of Chen Jingrun, a former academician of China Academy of Sciences and a famous mathematician. It is the first batch of key middle schools and provincial-level schools. From the autumn of 1997, it was changed to a senior middle school. The school covers an area of 55,735 square meters with a building area of 27,000 square meters. The campus has a beautiful environment and garden characteristics, and is rated as "provincial elegant campus". The school has successively won more than 40 awards at or above the provincial level, such as "five stresses and four beauties, striving to be an advanced teacher unit", "green red flag unit" and "advanced school of conventional teaching management".

The school actively promotes the new curriculum reform, and "improving the overall quality and developing individual specialties" has become a school-running feature. Olympic Games, a high school subject, is famous both inside and outside the province. Won 2 international gold medals, 8 people entered the national training team, and more than 400 people won awards at or above the provincial level. The college entrance examination has hit a record high for 10 years. In the past nine years, 4 1 of the students have been admitted to Tsinghua and Peking University. In the past four years, the number of people with a total score of 600 or above in the college entrance examination ranks first in the city.