융장 여자중고등학교, Girls' middle and high school in Ningbo, China

The former Yongjiang Girls' School on Zhanchuan Street in Ningbo consists of a three-storey brick-and-timber classroom building completed in 1922, with a capacity for over 600 students, and a two-storey gymnasium about 27 metres long, 15 metres wide and 10 metres high. The classroom building faces east and now houses the Ningbo Education Museum.

Founded in 1844 by British missionary Mary Ann Aldersey as the Ningbo school, it is considered China's first girls' school. In 1923 it merged with the secondary section of Saint Mary's School and moved to the Zhànchuán Street building, taking the name Yongjiang Girls' Middle School. In 1927 it came under Chinese administration, and in 1958 it became Ningbo No. 6 Middle School and turned coeducational. Since 2015 the former teaching building has housed the Ningbo Education Museum.

The school's name comes from the Yongjiang River, and its 1924 bilingual magazine Yǒngjiāng Shēng (Voice of Yongjiang) carried seven sections, from essays to poetry. Students wore black cloth qipao or white blouses with plain skirts, foot-binding was banned, and wealthy pupils were allowed to bring a maid. Its basketball team and 1930 gymnasium made it a sporting pioneer in Ningbo.

The Zhànchuán Street campus is now the Ningbo Education Museum, not a working school; the surviving 1922 three-storey brick-and-timber teaching building and the 1930 gymnasium, Ningbo's first indoor hall, can be visited there. The site became a Zhejiang provincial cultural relic in January 2017. Check the museum's opening days before travelling, as access follows museum rather than school hours.

The 1930 gymnasium on the Zhànchuán Street campus was Ningbo's first indoor sports hall, about 27 m long, 15 m wide and 10 m high. The school also let wealthy pupils bring a maid along, and its 1924 bilingual magazine Yǒngjiāng Shēng ran seven sections, from fiction to poetry.