In the late 20th century, Guangzhou Normal School, the predecessor of Sheikh Middle School, has developed into a provincial-level key normal school and the first batch of five-year college pilot normal schools in China, which has trained more than 50,000 people, sent a large number of outstanding teachers to Guangzhou and even at home and abroad, and made great contributions to education.
The school is now a national model ordinary high school in Guangdong Province, a first-class school in Guangdong Province, and a key school directly under the Guangzhou Municipal Education Bureau. In addition, the school is also a national key experimental school for educational technology research, an excellent ordinary high school in Guangdong Province, a demonstration school for mental health education in primary and secondary schools in Guangdong Province, a modern experimental school for educational technology in Guangdong Province, an experimental sample school for new courses in Guangzhou, an exchange training base school for Chinese and foreign principals in South China Normal University, a demonstration school for UNESCO's sustainable development education (ESD) project in China, a demonstration school for national energy conservation and emission reduction and sustainable development-social action project, and a resource-saving and environment-friendly demonstration school in Guangdong Province.