上海市延安中学

Shanghai Yan'an High School, located in Changning District of Shanghai, is one of the most renowned high school in Shanghai. Shanghai Yan'an High School was titled "Talented School"(市重点中学) in 1960 and became one of the first "Pioneer and Model High School"(实验性示范性高中) in Shanghai in 2005.

Shanghai Yan'an High School, which covers grade 10 (senior 1) through grade 12 (senior 3), has an enrollment of about 2000 students.

History

Founded in October, 1946, Shanghai Zhenru High School, later to be renamed Shanghai Yan'an High School in July 1954, was built in Zhenru Township, Jiading County. After the war and the liberation of Shanghai in May 27th, 1949, the school decided to move to No. 601, West Yan'an Road. At that time, the school included both high school and middle school department until the high school department moved to the current campus in 1998, leaving the middle school part still at the old campus. The middle school part was thus renamed as Shanghai East Yan'an Middle School, since the old campus is in the east of the current one. In 2002, the middle school part was again given the original name, Shanghai Yan'an Middle School, and the two departments were again in unity with each other. In 2006, Shanghai Yan'an High School opened its International Department, starting to enroll international students.

The school name is an inscription in the Chinese Chairman Deng Xiaoping's handwriting in 1979, since Yan'an is the birthplace of Chinese Communist revolution. The school name thus reflected the perseverance and arduous spirit of the revolutionists.