This paper conducts an investigation and assessment on the seismic performance of frame structures in existing primary and secondary schools in Guangdong region. Based on the low seismic measures of teaching build⁃ings constructed before 2004 and the prominent problems indicated by historical seismic damage,such as “weak columns and strong beams”,single-span frames,and irregular structures,the safety of school buildings is of vital importance for densely populated primary and secondary schools. To systematically grasp the seismic status of school buildings in this region and establish an efficient assessment method,eight key performance indicators such as fortification intensity,construction year,single-span frame and regularity were extracted by statistically analyz⁃ing the information of 108 frame-structured school buildings and combining with the elastic-plastic analysis of rare earthquakes. The Analytic Hierarchy Process(AHP)was used to construct the weight coefficients,and a rapid as⁃sessment model was established to achieve the rapid assessment of their seismic capacity. The results show that:The primary and secondary school buildings in Guangdong Province are mainly frame-structured, among which 23% are single-span frames,and the proportion of irregular plan structures is as high as 68%;under rare-earth⁃quakes,the inter-story drift angles of the structures all meet the code limits. According to the assessment model, approximately 10% of the school buildings are resilient buildings(performance a),70% are ductile buildings(per⁃formance b),and 20% are vulnerable buildings(performance c). The assessment method proposed in this paper realizes the rapid assessment of the seismic capacity of school buildings and provides a reference for the seismic re⁃inforcement and performance improvement of primary and secondary school buildings in Guangdong region.