Shanxi University
As for admissions of the high school section, TFLS (excluding Fenghuang branch) has four admission channels: tongzhao (), bi-foreign-language courses (), international courses (), and zexiao (). TFLS admits middle school graduates through High School Entrance Examination, held by the Provincial Department of Education of Shanxi. In the years of 2012, 2013, and 2014, Taiyuan Foreign Language School's admission standards all ranked 4th in Taiyuan, only after the High School Affiliated to Shanxi University, Taiyuan No. 5 Middle School, and Shanxi Experimental Secondary School.