Dashe Elementary School

Dashe Elementary School has one of the most convoluted institutional histories among the district's schools. It began in 1920 as a branch classroom of Shanzhiding (山仔頂) Public School, was folded into Shanshang Public School in 1925, re-established as a branch in 1938, and became “Dashe National School” in 1941. A 1947 boundary change briefly folded it into Xinshi Township, abolishing it as an independent school, before it was re-established as a branch of Xinshi Elementary School in August 1949 and finally became fully independent on August 1, 1952. It took its present name, Tainan City Xinshi District Dashe Elementary School, on December 25, 2010, after the Tainan county-city merger. The village name “Dashe” (大社, “great settlement”) reflects the area's origin as a significant indigenous settlement site before Han development.

大社國小的行政沿革堪稱區內最為曲折者之一。民國9年（1920年）設立為山仔頂公學校分教場，民國14年（1925年）併入山上公學校，民國27年（1938年）再度設立分校，民國30年（1941年）改稱「大社國民學校」。民國36年（1947年）因行政區調整一度併入新市鄉而遭裁撤，民國38年（1949年）8月以新市國小分校身份重新設立，最終於民國41年（1952年）8月1日正式獨立設校。民國99年（2010年）12月25日，隨臺南縣市合併定名為現今的「臺南市新市區大社國民小學」。「大社」（意為「大型聚落」）之地名，反映此地在漢人開發之前即為重要原住民聚落所在。