Alian Junior High School

Alian Junior High School began in 1957 as a branch campus of Kaohsiung County's Gangshan Junior High School. It became an independent institution, Kaohsiung County Alian Junior High School, by 1958–59, and took its current name in 1968 alongside Taiwan's shift to nine-year compulsory education. In 1986, the school added a supplementary remedial program. Its name reflects Alian's layered linguistic history: the district name traces to the Siraya language, referencing the ancestral spirit Alizu (阿立祖), and was later reinterpreted in 1946 using the characters "阿蓮" (lotus) for their Buddhist Pure Land associations — a naming link shared with neighboring Mituo District.

阿蓮國中創立於民國46年（1957年），最初為高雄縣立岡山初中阿蓮分部。至民國47、48年間（1958-59年）獨立設校，定名「高雄縣立阿蓮初級中學」，民國57年（1968年）配合九年國教實施改名為「阿蓮國民中學」。民國75年（1986年）增設補校。校名承載著阿蓮多層次的語言歷史：地名源自西拉雅語，指涉祖靈「阿立祖」，民國35年（1946年）重新以「阿蓮」（蓮花）二字命名，取其佛教淨土意象——這層命名淵源也與鄰近的彌陀區相呼應。