Jinling High School

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Location
Jinling High School
Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
Information
Principal	Zheng Zou
Staff	236 (August 2006)
Students	3,128 (August 2006)
Type	Public Secondary
Campus	Urban
Established	1888
Homepage	Official site

Nanjing Jinling High School, (Simplified Chinese: 金陵中学, nickname Jin-Zhong 金中, former name No.10 Middle School 南京市第十中学) is a high school located in Nanjing, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China. With nearly 120 years of history, it is claimed as one of the most prestigious and competitive high schools in China.

Jinling High School was founded as Fowler Biblical School (汇文书院)in 1888 by United States missionaries. The school was affiliated with Jinling University (金陵大学, now Nanjing University) until 1952, when its name was changed to Nanjing No. 10 Middle School (南京市第十中学). Having restored its original name in 1988, it is a key school in Jiangsu, honored as a provincial and national “model school”. It is also one of the famous national model schools in China.

In the past century, over a thousand graduates have been groomed, among whom are hundreds of eminent people, such as people’s educationalist Tao Xingzhi, the master architect, designer of Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum Lv Yanzhi, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and former honorary chairman of its core scholar’s presidium, the famous thermo physicist engineer Wu Zhonghua, the famous economists Wu Jinglian and Li Yining, the Nobel Prize laureate writer Gao Xingjian, the biologist Fu Xinyuan, the young leader of Differential Coefficient Geometry Tian Gang, and member of The Chinese Academy of Science Qi Kang. The school is hence widely acclaimed as a “cradle for the elite”.

The school has a central location in the Municipality, with a campus of 50,000 square meters, and 160 teachers.