Founded in 1909 as Taiyuan Women’s Normal School, Taiyuan Foreign Language School is now co-ed, and devotes its efforts to educating students to be adept in foreign languages, academically well-rounded, and familiar with both Chinese and Western cultures.

TFLS enrolls students from grades 7 through 12 and is famous for quality foreign language courses and other subjects.

In the early 1990s, TFLS relocated to its new campus in Yifenyuan, in the west bank of Fen River.

[2] The high school building also features a library on the 10th floor, which has spacious reading and study rooms, and computer labs.

In the first two years of high school, every student has to take classes in Chinese, mathematics, foreign language, moral education, history, geography, physics, chemistry, biology, physical education, music, and fine arts.

[citation needed] [citation needed] English Japanese Russian German French Spanish TFLS middle school section's entrance examination is held annually at the Yifenyuan campus.

Prospective students of the entering class are recommended by their respective elementary schools to take this examination.

As for admissions of the high school section, TFLS (excluding Fenghuang branch) has four admission channels: tongzhao (统招), bi-foreign-language courses (双外语班), international courses (国际班), and zexiao (择校).

[3] In general, 99% of TFLS graduates are enrolled at four-year higher education institutions at home or abroad.

The school authority encourages students choosing to pursue their higher learning overseas.