Dabang Elementary School

Dabang Elementary was founded on November 4, 1904, as "Dabang Aboriginal Children's Education Institute" under Japanese colonial police-administered indigenous education — making it the oldest elementary school in Taiwan, older than the Republic of China itself. The school celebrated its 120th anniversary in 2024, and has been renamed several times through the decades before settling on its current name in 1989, after Wufeng Township was renamed Alishan Township. Located in Dabang, the largest and most important Tsou tribal settlement (大社), the school's student body is nearly 100% Tsou indigenous, and it transitioned into a Tsou Indigenous Cultural Experimental School starting the 2018 academic year, with a branch campus at Lika offering its own featured study-tour program.

達邦國小創立於民國前7年（1904年）11月4日，前身為日治時期警察系統下的「達邦蕃童教育所」——是全台歷史最悠久的小學，甚至比中華民國建國還早。學校於2024年舉辦120週年校慶，數十年間歷經多次更名，最終於民國78年（1989年）吳鳳鄉更名阿里山鄉後定名為現名。學校位於鄒族最大且最重要的部落「大社」達邦，學生幾乎全為鄒族原住民，自107學年度（2018年）起轉型為「鄒民族文化實驗教育學校」，並在里佳設有分校，經營獨具特色的遊學課程。