Dingzhou Elementary School

Dingzhou Elementary was founded in March 1918 as the Ding-Xizhou branch of Xuejia Public School, becoming independent as Xizhou Public School in 1922. The school sits on land at the south bank of the Bazhang River that was formed by silt deposits from a major Kangxi-era flood in 1701. Its rebuilt 2021 campus, shaped like a double-tiered pigeon-racing loft merged with a watermelon motif, won the Kaohsiung Architects Association's '2020 Renhe Award' Outstanding Prize in the education category.

頂洲國小創立於大正7年（1918年）3月，前身為學甲公學校頂溪洲分教場，民國11年（1922年）獨立設校為溪洲公學校。學校座落於八掌溪南岸，該地為康熙40年（1701年）大洪水沖積而成的土地。2021年重建的校舍以雙層「鴿笭」融合西瓜造型設計，向頂洲、洪家社區百年的養鴿與種瓜傳統致敬，並榮獲高雄市建築師公會「2020仁和賞」教育類優秀獎。