Abstract: Objective To reveal intuitively the micro and macro structure of school health research in China, in order to lay a solid foundation for further study. Methods Statistical analyses the current status of 864 high-level journal papers in the field of school health in China by EXCEL and SATI software, author cooperation and organization cooperation, research hotspots and frontier trend knowledge maps were drawn by Citespace. Results The research in the field of school health in China shows a wavy growth trend, the contribution of Chinese Journal of School Health is the biggest (757). Ma Jun, Tao Fangbiao, Wang Zhiyong, Liu Wei, Duan Jiali, Xu Yong are high-yield authors, Peking University, Anhui Medical University, Dalian City and Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention are high-yield institutions. Author cooperation and institutional cooperation are relatively loose, and Duan Jiali et al. and Peking University institute of child and adolescent health, respectively, form the largest cooperation community. Status, supervision, rural area, management, surveillance, health education, epidemiology, nutrition, environmental health, infectious diseases, common diseases, and influencing factors, etc. are hot topics in the field. Conclusion Cross-boundary exchanges and cooperation should be strengthened to promote regional coordinated development. Health risk behaviors of children and adolescents, environmental health surveillance and epidemiology of infectious diseases of primary and secondary schools, the school health personnel present situation investigation, children nutrition health and common diseases prevention and control, rural school health supervision and health education countermeasures, and school health management model were the hot topics, prevention of child injury, Internet addiction, and physical and mental health promotion were the leading directions. The commnunication and cooperation between different fields should be strengthened to improve the reginal development.