Recently, the education science center of Guangdong unveiled the results of the selection of excellent schemes for "construction of primary and middle schools with characteristics in Guangdong". The scheme submitted by our school "construction of a school characterized by education of sound personality" had won first prize. This was another stage fruit for continuing to consolidate the characteristics of moral education of sound personality, after winning the title of "demonstrative school for moral education in Guangdong" in 2012.

Shenzhen Experimental School, founded on May 3, 1985, is the first public-run school founded by the government after the establishment of Shenzhen Special Economic Zone. It is a key school directly under Shenzhen Municipal Education Bureau and a top school of Guangdong Province. The Senior High School Department is one of the first National Model Schools in Guangdong Province. Shenzhen Experimental School is a large-scale, experimental and demonstrative school which consists of Grade 1 to Grade 12, and is managed as a whole. There are two campuses (Xili campus and Baihua Campus) and four departments (Senior High School Department, Senior-Junior School Department, Junior High School Department, and Primary School Department) with staff of almost 700 and student body of over 7000. The Senior High School Department which consists of 36 classes is a full boarding school. 12 classes of senior high section in Senior-Junior School Department will also gradually implement full boarding after the completion of the new teaching building. Other departments follow the nearby enrollment policy. There are 5 foreign teachers hired by Shenzhen Municipal Education Bureau and 103 foreign students (including students from Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan).

The current party secretary and principal of Shenzhen Experimental School is Zhong Jinggao.