Darong Elementary School

Darong Elementary opened in 1914 under Japanese rule as the "Rintian Ordinary Higher Elementary School," built to educate the children of Japanese immigrant farmers settling the Rintian (林田) village. More than a century later, four of its teacher and principal dormitory buildings, dating from around 1914 to 1918, are registered historic buildings — and the campus grounds still preserve traces of an early Japanese shrine and police station. Today the school's district spans three Amis tribal communities across the Hualien River, making it one of the best-preserved physical links between Fenglin's colonial past and its Indigenous present.

大榮國小創立於民國3年（1914年）日治時期，初名「林田尋常高等小學校」，專為林田移民村的日本移民農民子弟而設。逾百年後的今天，校內四棟建於約1914至1918年間的教職員宿舍已登錄為歷史建築，校園內也仍保有早期日本神社與派出所的遺跡。學校學區橫跨花蓮溪畔三個阿美族部落，是鳳林殖民時期歷史與原住民現況之間保存最完好的實體連結之一。