A total of five aerated concrete block walls were subjected to quasi-static experiments to explore the seismic performance of aerated concrete block walls reinforced through the steel wire rope-polymer mortar surface layer cross-strip method. The failure process, hysteresis loop, skeleton curve, stiffness, and ductility of different specimens were comparatively analyzed based on low cyclic loading tests. The results revealed that the cross strip on the steel wire rope-polymer mortar surface layer could enhance the shear bearing capacity and stiffness of aerated concrete block walls but failed to significantly improve their ductility and energy-dissipating capacity. Moreover, a calculation method for the shear bearing capacity of aerated concrete block walls reinforced using the cross strip on the steel wire rope-polymer mortar surface layer was proposed, which exhibited favorable prediction accuracy.