One of the county's oldest schools.
Dalin Elementary was founded in 1906 as "Dapolin Public School," making it one of the oldest schools in Chiayi County. It was renamed several times through the Japanese colonial era and after Taiwan's 1945 retrocession, eventually taking its current name in 1968 under the nine-year compulsory education reform. Today the school enrolls about 549 students across 29 classes, with a bilingual and English-emphasis program and a coding curriculum built around Scratch and Blockly — recently winning a county award for an English-language feature video.
大林國小創立於1906年（明治年間），初名「大莆林公學校」，是嘉義縣歷史最悠久的學校之一。歷經日治時期與1945年台灣光復後多次更名，最終於民國57年（1968年）九年國教改制後定名為現名。學校目前約有549名學生、29個班級，推動雙語與英語特色教育，並開設以Scratch、Blockly為主的程式設計課程，曾以英語特色影片作品榮獲112學年度縣賽特優。
What makes this school worth knowing.
🎬 An Award-Winning English Video
英語特色影片特優
The school won top honors in the county's 2023–24 English feature-video competition, a reflection of its bilingual and English-emphasis education programs.
💻 Coding from an Early Age
程式設計課程
Students learn computational thinking through a Scratch- and Blockly-based coding curriculum alongside their regular studies.
🐷 Local, Sustainable School Lunches
在地食材午餐
The school serves domestically sourced pork in its school lunches and runs active environmental and Taiwanese local-language programs.
🏛️ A Century-Old Lineage
百年校史
Founded in 1906 as Dapolin Public School, the school's own name changes across eras trace the transformation of Dalin itself, from Japanese-era sugar town to modern township.
A living record of Dalin's transformation.
A century-plus-old school at the historic heart of the former sugar-refinery town of Dalin, its own lineage — from public school (公學校) to national school (國民學校) to today's elementary school — mirrors the town's transformation from a Japanese-era sugar company town into a modern township now also known for Nanhua University and the Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital.
Find the school.
No. 423, Zhongzheng Rd., Dalin Township, Chiayi County 622, Taiwan
622嘉義縣大林鎮中正路423號
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Last updated: July 2026 · Content adapted and condensed from the school's official Chinese-language website by the Taiwan Bilingual Hub team, not yet reviewed by the school. If you're from Dalin Elementary School and would like to correct or expand this page, please contact us.