Cao Guangbiao Primary School in Huangpu District of Shanghai is located in the city center and is a high-quality public school that serves as an internal model and that is open to international students. The school covers an area of 9,567.24 square meters, with fully equipped specialized classrooms and advanced teaching facilities. The school has creatively designed its environment from the children’s perspective, featuring a series of areas including the Rainbow Bridge, the Dream Hall, the Home for Creation, the Star-Gazing Pavilion, and the Sprout Garden. The campus environment is both spacious and exquisite.

The school upholds the educational value of “creating education suitable for every child,” focusing on nurturing high-quality school culture and self-guided fostering of teachers’ cultural awareness. It explores pathway and method innovation for character development of modern urban-area students, and conducts in-depth research on the cultivation of key character traits in elementary school students. The school drives its curriculum vision through projects and implements the national curriculum in a school-based manner, ensuring that the school curriculum becomes an intrinsic resource for students’ character building and spiritual growth. In particular, the school dynamically developed venue-based courses for over a decade, comprehensively optimizing both on-campus and off-campus teaching resources, allowing children to develop core character traits and key abilities through meaningful and contextual learning experiences. During the process of learning and exploration, teachers and students connect history with the present, understand themselves and the world, and bridge reality with the future.

Currently, the school has 29 classes with nearly 1,090 students, and employs 77 regular teaching staff members. All teachers of the school hold a bachelor’s degree or above, with 6 holding master’s degrees. The teaching staff of the school includes one special-grade principal, one teacher holding senior professional title, and thirteen advanced-level teachers. Two teachers of the school were recognized as leaders in the new-round subject development of Huangpu District, and seven teachers were designated as key teachers in the Huangpu district. Various indicators of the school including the education background, professional titles, age structure, number and distribution of key teachers show a positive trend in the individual quality and overall structure of the teaching team.

The school’s Mind Sports Olympiad team has represented Chinese elementary school students in the World Finals in the United States for 12 times, winning trophies for 10 times and claiming the championship for 6 times. The school is recognized as a “OM”-featured school in Shanghai and serves as a creative education experimental base of the China Creative Studies Institute. In recent years, the school focused on developing science education and is designated as a research base for science education in elementary and secondary schools in Huangpu District, Shanghai, as well as a base school for the Shanghai Junior Academy of Science’s Artificial Intelligence Division. The School is also recognized as a featured model school for science and technology education in Shanghai and a national featured school with a focus on artificial intelligence.

In the over 29 years since its establishment, the school progressed from the “ordinary” and “standardized” to “excellence.” It was awarded multiple times the titles of Culturally Advanced Campus of Shanghai, Model School for Behavioral Norms in Elementary and Secondary Schools of Shanghai, Model School for Mental Health Education of Shanghai, Green School of Shanghai, and Advanced Collective for the Entrusted Management of Rural Compulsory Education Schools in Suburban Areas of Shanghai. The school also received accolades including Outstanding Young Pioneers Collective at the national level and Model School for Young Pioneers Work of Shanghai, earning a respectable reputation in society with its remarkable achievements in education.