The High School Attached to Northwest Normal University (Xibei shifan daxue fushu zhongxue) began as the Wucheng School in 1901. It moved to its present location in Lanzhou in 1937. Since that time it has repeatedly been named as one of the top two high schools in Gansu Province by the Ministry of Education. NWNU High School is located near the banks of the Yellow River in Anning District in the northwest part of Lanzhou City.The leafy grounds cover 25 acres and include ponds, gardens, and indoor and outdoor sporting facilities. There are dormitories for 2000 students, Chinese and Muslim cafeterias, two libraries, a small observatory, extensive science labs and a small natural history museum. The main library has 200,000 books, including several hundred in English, and 300 computer terminals.