Affiliated High School of Peking University

Since its completion in 2003, this six-story building has served as the main teaching facility for senior students (grades 10–12) on campus. The building's teaching spaces include about 40 classrooms, 11 state-of-the-art science labs, and spaces for arts and technology education. Besides, the West Teaching Building houses three performance spaces: an 800- and 200-seat auditorium and "Black Box" theatre. It also hosts a two-story library, a student-run café, and the school's administrative offices.

The East Teaching Building is mainly for Junior High School. It was completed in 1999 and subsequently renovated in 2007. In 2012 the building lost 2 classrooms on its east side to make way for a major construction project on campus. Since 2019, with the relocation of the junior high school, the east building gradually became the management of the high school.

The complex now consists of two sections. The laboratory section is located on the north side of the building, housing laboratories for physics, chemistry, biology, and technology education. Another section to the south holds 30 classrooms.

The North Teaching Building was completed at the end of 2016 along with the Xinjian Gymnasium and was put into use in September 2017. There are four floors in the north building. The first floor is used as a platform leading to the Sunken Theater which connects with the Xinjian Gymnasium; the second floor was used as ordinary classroom before September 2019, and then as a normal classroom; the third and fourth floors will be used as normal classrooms.

Now the North Teaching Building is mainly used by the students of Yuanpei College (Hongyi House since 2023 students) and technical classes. Some minorities will also take classes here, such as the Bridging Class (ninth grade) and some Chinese classes in the eleventh grade.

The dormitory was completed in 2003. Each room in the students' residence has the capability of holding up to 6 students. The residence for school staff and visitors stands 11-story high. The cafeteria, completed in 2004, is a five-storied building with an underground parking space. The first three stories are set to serve its enrollment, and the fourth floor is for staff and visitors. The fifth floor is a training facility for the school's dance team, which may also be adapted to special uses when needed. The library is, in fact, a multi-function structure with an area of 3,000m² that saw its completion in 2009. It features a conference room and a multi-function hall. As for its fundamental function, the library holds a collection of 100,000 books with a wireless network access.

The campus also features a gymnasium in which the badminton courts and the table tennis tables are housed. The gymnasium may be re-deployed for special uses.

The South Teaching Building was completed in 1960, making it the oldest building on campus. It underwent a major renovation in 2010. Currently, it houses Dalton Academy (the school's international division) on the fifth and sixth floors. It was once used as a classroom for the Dalton Academy (the school's international division). Since the Dalton Academy moved to the fifth and sixth floors of the West Classroom Building, the 2019 students of Beida Resources Middle School have spent three years here. It is now used as an office place for school teachers and other companies’ product development departments.

The earliest club of the Affiliated High School of Peking University dates back to 1980[13] when the Literature Club was initially established. In nearly three decades, the school has developed more than 20 miscellaneous clubs.[14] All of the clubs are hosted, maintained and operated by the students in this school, and every student is granted the privilege to create new clubs at their own will. These clubs, as listed below, are differentiated by their concerned fields.

The student-oriented environment enables the students to join their favorite clubs more freely.[16][17][18] It is said that almost everyone in this school holds membership of at least one club,[19] as participating in club activities has been playing a major role in students' extracurricular time. These clubs feature lectures, experience sharing communication, as well as collaborative projects with groups outside the school.[20][21]

The Art Festival was founded under scholastic authority in 1997. In 2002, the Students' Union succeeded to supervise the festival, converting the once new year party into a three-week festival held in December when distinctively talented students may show their skills to the fullest. It stands now as an integration of various special performances[22] plus a new year celebration (also the closing ceremony of the festival) at the end of the month.

The Campus Singer Competition designates the climax of the entire festival. The first competition in 2004, involved the only a tiny amount of contestants. The figure of the contestants quickly jumped to 250[23] as it develops, with approximately 800 audiences viewing the final, the most anticipated event of the festival. The Students' Union of the Affiliated High School of Peking University has been collaborating with other schools to organize the competition at a larger scale.[24][25]

Overhearing the High School of Peking University (偷听北大附中) is a school magazine hosted by the Students' Union of the High School of Peking University. Its first issue being published on campus on July 12, 2007, this quarterly magazine aims at spreading latest news in and out of the campus, selling approximately 500 copies for each issue, as stated by its editors. The school's Creative Media Workshop, a studio made up of a dozen enthusiastic students, now takes charge of editing the magazine.

The Affiliated High School of Peking University has established relationships with over 30 schools in the world. It offers not only various on-campus curriculum that covers Chinese/Mandarin, Chinese Painting, calligraphy, kungfu, but also programs outside the school to enable the foreign students to experience the Chinese culture in body. The following schools are said to have maintained regular visitation to the high school:

• Seifu Gakuen Junior & Senior High School, Japan[26]
• College Claude Debussy, France[27]
• Ressu upper secondary school, Finland[28]
• St. Paul's Convent School, Hong Kong[29]
• Cary Academy, USA[30]
• Scotch College, Melbourne, Australia[31]
• Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne, Australia
• Heinrich Heine Gymnasium, Germany[32]
• Waseda University Honjo Senior High School, Japan[33]
• River Valley High School, Singapore[34]
• Raffles Institution, Singapore
• Nanyang Girl's High School, Singapore
• The School of Science and Technology, Singapore
• Taipei Municipal Chien-Kuo Senior High School
• Chitralada School, Thailand
• The Perse School, United Kingdom
• Maru-a-Pula School, The Republic of Botswana
• College Claude Debussy, France
• Scotland High School, Australia
• Hana Academy Seoul, Korea
• Menlo School, USA
• Hotchkiss School, USA

And the Affiliated High School of Peking University visits these schools every one or two years:

• College Claude Debussy, France[35]
• St. Paul's Convent School, Hong Kong
• Scotch College, Melbourne, Australia[36]
• Seifu Gakuen Junior & Senior High School, Japan
• Seiseiko Senior High School, Japan
• River Valley High School, Singapore
• Heinrich Heine Gymnasium, Germany
• Ressu Comprehensive School, Finland

The SSAT Confucius Institute was founded collaboratively by Peking University, the High School of Peking University and Specialist Schools and Academies Trust (SSAT) in July, 2007.[37] In virtue of the platform provided by SSAT, the High School of Peking University commits itself to the promotion of the Chinese language and the Chinese culture by sending teachers abroad and writing textbooks. The SSAT Confucius Institute was awarded the Confucius Institute of the Year 2008.[38][39]

The school currently hosts two study-abroad programs with Scotch College, Melbourne and American Secondary Schools for International Students and Teachers (ASSIST). Every year, the high school sends two outstanding students to participate in an exchange program where the two participants will spend 8 to 9 weeks as ordinary students at Scotch College, and in the next year, the corresponding students from the Scotch College will pay similar visits to the high school.[31] The ASSIST program, provides opportunities for outstanding students in the high school to attend American independent secondary schools on one-year scholarships.[41]