The zone has three province-level experimental primary schools including Bajia Lake Primary School, Qingshui Pavilion Primary School and Cuiping Mountain Primary School; four secondary schools with modern teaching facilities including the secondary school of Nanjing Normal University, Baijia Lake Secondary School, Yinghua International School and Qingshui Pavilion Secondary School; and fifteen colleges or universities including the principal campus of Southeast University, the Jiangning Campus of Hehai University, the General Road Campus of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Now a British school is being expanded. International schools including high schools, primary schools and kindergartens will come into being.