Type Public Principal Sun Junqi（孙君琪） Number of students 2066 | Established 1995 Faculty 170 | |
Motto 志远业精 (pinyin：ZhìYuǎnYèJīng） 严谨认真 (pinyin：YánJǐngRènZhēn) 勤学善思 (pinyin：QínXuéShànSī) | ||
Taicang Senior High School （太仓高级中学，pinyin:TàiCāngGāoJíZhōngXué， abbreviation:省太高, pinyin:ShěngTàiGāo）is a high school in Taicang, Suzhou, China. In China, according to schools' comprehensive standard, high schools are assessed into different ranks, ranging from one-star, two-star, three-star, four-star to five-star . In Taicang, there is no five-star but only two four-star high schools of which Taicang Senior High School is one.
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The student usually call themselves as Taigaoren(太高人，pinyin：TàiGāoRén)
History
Taicang Senior High School is an all-day school constructed in Jiangsu province. It has a history of almost one hundred years. It was developed from the senior high school department of another school called Taicang the First Middle School.
In July, 1995, the school's construction was finished and it was officially named Taicang senior high school. It began to independently recruit students. In March, 1997, the school was honored as "Jiangsu provincial key high school". In July, 1998, it gained another award, the title of "Provincial High School". In April, 1999, it was affirmed as a provincial "National Level Demonstrative High School" after strict assessment. In March, 2004, the school was finally evaluated as "Provincial Four-Star Level High School".
Evaluation of a school is based, to some extent, is on the graduation rates.The reason why Taicang Senior High School gains a high reputation all over the city mostly due to its good graduation rates.
Library
School libraries provide students with space to do some independent studies after class. Today, quality education has promoted library up to the position where it acts as one of the three main pillars in modern education. Learning the function of library and holding the school motto educating people oriented, Taicang senior high school accelerates its pace to develop the construction of school library. Now, whether in the field of advanced inside hardware facilities or the software facilities containing standardized management and warm service, etc., this library has achieved obvious improvements and has entered a new stage.
The history of the library's progress can be divided into two stages by the official opening of the new library in April, 2001.
Here is the website of Taicang Senior High School library.
Laboratory
Science grows perceptibly in Taicang senior high school. In order to provide students with better environment to do experiments, the school accelerates its pace to construct more labs for different courses like physics, biology or chemistry class. Furthermore, the school opens some lab lessons and the final aim is to guarantee the efficient performance of all curricula, containing national, local and school itself courses.
Although now the inside devices are not very complete, the school has noticed the defect and is taking actions to make up. In 2011， it issued the public bidding announcement about purchasing of digital lab equipment for its new campus.
Stadium
Taicang Senior High School does not only pay attention to the students' grades, but also share much attention to students' physical health. Insisting on the above principle, it organized various types of sports activities, such as school sports game, basketball and football competitions. When the national students sports program, "Sunny sport" was launched throughout hundreds of millions of students from primary, middle schools and universities in China, Taicang Senior High School was heeding the call of country and actively participated in this national game. In 2009, due to the school's outstanding performance in this field, it was conferred with the title of "Sunny Sport Advanced Unit". As the school intensifies its work of sports activities, a modern stadium is gradually improved. Inside the stadium, it has specialized basketball, badminton courts and tennis table rooms. The basketball court is quite big and the auditorium is set at the both sides of it. So many basketball competition were carried out in this stadium.
Achievements
The following table briefly introduces several crucial awards achieved by Taicang senior high school in recent years.
More awards at or above the city level in the recent five years.
Alumni and Alumnae
In China, there is an extremely important exam for all students. Whether students gain success in this exam, to some degree, decides their prospects and possibly even their families' future. This turning-point exam is so-called college entrance examination. In the region of Taicang city, there exists an unwritten words if a child could go to Taicang senior high school, that means he or she now is a half student in first-class university. According to reliable statistics, many students who ever studied here now have entered brilliant universities or obtained a good job.
Take the 2008 college entrance examination for example. In 2008, the pattern of college entrance examination was suddenlly changed a lot, which brought about big challenges for both teachers and graduating examinees. But Taicang senior high still finally handed out a satisfactory result. One student gained Suzhou Lee Tsung-Dao Scholarship and among the whole Suzhou city only six students gained this honour. Sixty-four students' college entrance examination scores ranked the top 10,000 among the provincial over 500,000 examniees. Altogether 466 students were admitted to key universities at or above two lines. Another eight students were admitted to art universities.