簡介
始創至今，五遷其址，三易其名。1999年躋身省重點中學行列。跨入新世紀，學校承地域人文之利，得時代風氣之先，跨越式向前發展。2004年順利通過省示範性高中督導評估。
學校環境清幽，規模宏大。學校位於縣城東郊，南瀕澧水河，北枕筆架山。校園總面積39.1萬平方米，建築面積10.8萬平方米。建設總規模為100個班，共完成投資1.6億元。如今，恢宏靚麗的教學樓，設施先進的科教樓，配套舒適的公寓樓，寬敞潔淨的食堂，富有現代氣息的廣場，雄偉壯觀的信息綜合樓……無不讓人賞心悅目，流連忘返，任莘莘學子揮灑青春，編制夢想。
發展
學校師資雄厚，桃李繁茂。學校現有教職工386名，專任教師336名，其中特級教師6名，中、高級教師198名，國家級骨幹教師2名，省、市級骨幹教師42名，市、縣學科帶頭人18名，還常年聘請了兩名外籍教師。現任中共中央委員、解放軍總政治部副主任唐天標上將、廣州軍區原副司令員文國慶中將、中共湖南省政協副主席文選德、浙江大學教授陳集雙、“中國IT十大風雲人物”、深圳朗科科技有限公司總裁鄧國順等就是其中的傑出代表。
學校成績斐然，成果豐碩。學校全面推行素質教育，教育質量屢創新高。2005年高考本科以上錄取555人，其中重點本科328人，600分以上113人，有10人考入北大、清華。
近年來，學生在各類學科競賽中獲市級以上獎勵有400多人次，“九澧文學社”獲全國中學“十佳文學社”殊榮，學生在各級報刊發表文章500多篇；有16項課題研究成果獲省級以上獎勵，教師有600多篇論文在市級以上獲獎或發表，教師主編或參編教學專著達68部；學校先後榮獲全國“中學生社會實踐先進單位”、省“文明單位”、市“名優學校”等榮譽稱號。
校訓：以人為本 求真創新
A Brief Introduction to No.1 Middle School of Shimen
Location :
No.1 Middle School of Shimen (abbr.SMYZ) lies in the northwest of Hunan Province.It is an hour’s tour from the scenery spot Zhang Jia jie and next to the old city of cultural interest FengHuang . There is the primeval forest district HuPing Mountain and JiaShan Temple, a place famous for its historical story about Li Zicheng---the leader of the peasant uprising at the end of Ming Dynasty. Our school is in the suburb of Shi Men, with a quiet and elegant environment .However,it is very convenient to live here.There are 3 supermarkets around. The taxi fee is incredibly cheap--just 3 yuan for 3 miles,and there are 3 train stations to go everywhere in China.
Customs and people
Shimen is an ancient county with a long history. The people are simple, honest andunspoiled. Hardworking, and with great hospitality, the Shimen people have achievedenormoussuccess in the economic field. Shimen is a tourist city. What makes the local most proud is that the highest mountain ---Huping Mountain stands in its northwest. Many beautiful scenic spots have drawn thousands of travelers, who are so indulged in the beauty of the scenery that they even forget home. Apart from this, our government holds The Orange Festival annually ,which makes Shimen enjoy a better reputation in China.
Excellent Conditions of the School
All the teaching buildings and teaching facilities in SMYZ are well equipped according to the standards of the first-class schools in China . At present, the school is well supplied with a complete series of modern teaching facilities such as advanced and practical digital local area network, high standard computer-rooms, language labs, multi-media teaching classrooms and other media rooms for different subjects and laboratories. Our school has everything that one expects to find: multi-functional library, science building and 400-metrerunning track. The apartments of the students are bright and clean dining hall provides us a comfortableliving environment. All these first-class facilities make it favorable for the school to train high-quality students.
The Faculty of the School
The teachers in SMYZ are all experienced and vigorous. For the time being, there are 336 full-time teachers. They all have a qualified educational background.ninety-six per cent of them have at least an undergraduate educational background and 198 of them have obtained a middle rank or high rank title of the technical field. These teachers have surpassed and been selected out of over 4000 applicants and thus became the forerunners of the school. They all bear a firm mind in the profession, with substantial teaching skills and exceeding educational ideas. They not only serve as honored teachers and good friends, but as parents and elder siblings as well. They care about the students' upbringing with great tenderness. With their guidance, the students roam about the sea of knowledge freely.
The scientific education management
SMYZ has inherited the fine traditions, the abundant educating experience, and the scientific well-knit management in educating. Based on this, SMYZ has also formed a kind of characteristic educational management of the school.
Colorful School Life
SMYZ is a school, home and paradise for children. The colorful school life makes the students happy and healthy on the campus.
Poetry Recitation Competition and Extra-curricula Activity Performances help to improve students' ability and quality.
The Annual Sports Meeting and Arts Festivals provide studentsChancesto show their varied abilities.
The students play and study cheerfully in the school. Their laughters and hurrays are left behind on the playground and the grass. Their diligent shadows remain in the school library, the lab building and the science building. With great eagerness, they assimilate knowledge andenrichtheir life here. They are accumulating their power to be masters of the future.
Great Achievements of the School
SMYZ has acquired great achievements in different fields.The detailed information can be found on our websites.(www.smyz.cn) Due to our great achievements, many schools choose to visit us,the school itself enjoys a good reputation and maintains a friendly relation with other schools nationwide.
We are expecting the following co-operations:
1.To set up friend schools, to develop teaching and other sides’ co-operation;
2.To form the homestay system, that is , to send some students to the other side to study and live in vacation;
3.To send teachers to the other side to learn language culture and educational operation regularly;
4.To send the educational information to each other,
