Guided by the core quality of physical education, the sports competition of primary and secondary schools is as the entry point. By means of literature and logical analysis, the core elements of sports competition are sorted out, and the new path of optimizing sports competition after school is explored under the background of school sports reform in the new era. Its purpose is to attract more primary and middle school students to participate in it, and make the competition itself better implement the requirements and norms of discipline literacy, and put forward the above three optimization paths of the diversification of competition content, the subjectivity of the competition process and the diversification of competition evaluation.