There are forty-three schools at all levels in Jiyang District, including four ordinary high schools, one vocational secondary school, thirty-six compulsory education schools (excluding teaching centers), and one teacher training school, one special education school and one children's sports school; sixty-four kindergartens, of which twenty-two are public (excluding rural sub kindergartens) and forty-two are private. There are 5, 369 teachers currently, including 4, 532 in-service teachers (including 613 controlled). There are 66,633 students in the school, including 11,689 high school students, 2,799 vocational students, 17,873 junior high school students and 34,272 primary school students; 16,792 children were registered in the kindergarten, including 11,659 in public kindergartens and 4, 541 in inclusive private kindergartens.

Jiyang District adheres to the priority of education development and puts forward the “1335” education idea: to thoroughly study and implement Chairman Xi Jinping’s important remarks on education work and anchor a strategic goal of “building an educational highland north of the Yellow River"; to adhere to the three development paths of “creating famous schools, shaping famous teachers and cultivating talents”; to clarify the three-step plan of “filling gaps and solidifying foundations in one year”, “producing achievements and exploring models in two years”, and “creating brands and systems in three years”; to implement five major actions: “Party building leadership, resource expansion, teacher strengthening, reform and quality improvement”, striving to turn Jiyang into the preferred place for students to study, a new highland for education and teaching quality, and a gathering place for high-quality educational talents, creating a beautiful city card of “Learning in Jiyang”.

One is to continuously optimize resources and make education more effective. During the “13th Five-Year Plan” period, more than thirty schools and kindergartens were newly built, renovated, and expanded in the entire region, with 28, 000 new degrees added, enabling children to attend good schools at their doorstep. The practice of alleviating the problem of “large class size” was praised by the People’s Daily.

The second is to adhere to student-oriented education and make education personalized and satisfying. All primary and secondary schools in the region have comprehensively carried out “5+2” after-school extended services, implemented the integrated reform of pre-schools in towns and villages, and created the “136+1” pre-school model, which have been awarded as the excellent case of comprehensive education reform and institutional innovation in Jinan City and a typical case of Jinan City government system innovation experience.

The third is to firmly reform and innovate, making education more effective. More than twenty reforms have been carried out, including the reform of the principal rank system, the reform of the township education management system, the reform of the enrollment system for primary and secondary schools, the integration of preschool education in towns and villages, the reform of the teacher recruitment system, and the reform of group education, to stimulate the vitality of education.Seventeen schools were selected into the list of “Pilot School, Characteristic School, and New Excellent School” in Jinan City, and “Construction and Implementation of ‘356’ Problem Guided teaching Model” won the second prize of the National Teaching Achievements Award for Basic Education. Adhering to the strategy of “attracting, training, retaining, and utilizing” talents to strengthen education, we have trained three renowned principals in Qilu, three provincial-level special-class teachers, fourteen teaching and educating models and provincial and municipal levels, and thirteen outstanding teachers at provincial and municipal levels.