Kang Jie High School was founded in April 1945, originally named “The Fifth Branch of Taiyue Administrative Cadre School in Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Border Region”. The school was renamed “Kang Jie High School” by Shanxi provincial people’s government on May 1, 1952 in memory of Jia Kangjie, the earliest Communist, outstanding revolutionist and educator in southern Shanxi.
The school is located in Yuncheng Konggang development area. It covers an area of 500 mu, with a construction area of 180 thousand square meters and total assets of 0.68 billion yuan. Currently, there are 90 classes, with more than 5400 students enrolled. The school has a faculty of more than 500 people, including 6 senior teachers, 6 special-level teachers, and 110 head teachers.
During the development of 73 years, the school has been teaching-centered, sending more than 60,000 outstanding students to colleges and universities. Among them, more than 500 students were admitted to famous foreign universities and Tsinghua University and Beijing University. A total of 8 students have achieved the highest academic scores in Shanxi province.
Kang Jie High School has been recognized and highly praised by the society after more than 70 years of teaching practice. It has won the titles of “The Cradle of Hedong Talents”, “The Holy Land for Study”, “The Brand of Basic Education of Shanxi”, “National Advanced Unit of Educational System”, “National First Batch of One Hundred Digital Demonstration Schools in China”, “National Advanced Unit of Mass Sports”, “Shanxi Model School of Quality-Oriented Education”, “Shanxi Model Unit”, “Shanxi Model High School”, “Shanxi Advanced Collectivity of Educational System”, and “Shanxi Healthy School”, etc.
Currently, under the leadership of headmaster Huang Mengqiang and the motto of “Integrity, Innovation, Morality, and Nurturing”, the school has put forward working direction of implementing educational policy, following educational rules, and promoting “strict management, solid work”. The school also put forward the guiding principles of “concentrating on teaching, focusing on quality, and promoting school connotative development constantly”; and overall requirements of “responsible, efficient, practical, innovative, excellent, honest, brave.”
With full spirits and solid style of work, all the Kang Jie people are striving for excellence and seize the initiative of curriculum reform and exam reform, and the collectivization of high-quality school. They dedicate to write a new chapter of imparting knowledge and educating student.
