[4] Established in 1947,[5] it is a special education school with access only to the Workers' Party of Korea, Korean People's Army, administrative and high-ranking officials’ families.

[10] At one time, Kim Won-ju, who was Kim Hyong-rok's third son, was assigned the position as State Security Department officer whose assignments included rooting out disloyalty to the regime among students at the ultra-elite Mangyongdae School.

[3] In 1982, O Guk-ryol, the then chief of the armed forces staff, said the school produced revolutionary warriors.

[1] In addition to a high school curriculum, students receive military training.

If the parents of a child were still alive, then only children of officials at least at the level of party department head were eligible to enroll.