A forest school with a scholar's name.
Fengjia Elementary was founded in 1956, named in honor of Qiu Fengjia, a Qing-dynasty reformist scholar whose family helped develop the Dakeng area. Nicknamed "Fengjia Forest School" for its deep-mountain setting, the school faced a dramatic crisis in the 1980s when a golf-course development emptied the surrounding hamlet, shrinking enrollment to just around 27 students by 1984. It has since reinvented itself around nature-based, small-school programming that embraces rather than fights its remote setting.
逢甲國小創立於1956年，校名紀念清代改革派士紳丘逢甲，其家族曾參與開發大坑一帶。學校因深山環境而有「逢甲森林小學」之稱，1980年代因高爾夫球場開發導致周邊聚落人口流失，1984年前後全校僅剩約27名學生，一度陷入危機。此後學校轉型，發展出以自然為本、小校精緻教學的辦學特色，善用而非抗拒其偏遠地理環境。
What makes this school worth knowing.
📜 Named After a Qing Reformer
紀念丘逢甲的校名
The school honors Qiu Fengjia, a Qing-dynasty scholar-official whose family helped develop the surrounding Dakeng area — and is unrelated to the better-known Feng Chia University downtown.
🌲 Taichung's "Forest School"
逢甲森林小學
Deep in the mountains above Beitun, Fengjia has earned the nickname "Forest School" for its remote, tree-shaded campus setting far from the district's urban core.
⛳ Surviving a Golf-Course Exodus
高爾夫球場開發後的存續
In the 1980s, a golf-course development emptied the surrounding hamlet and shrank enrollment to around 27 students by 1984 — a near-closure the school survived and later rebuilt from.
🍃 Reinvented as a Small Nature School
轉型自然為本小校教學
Rather than fight its remote size, Fengjia has rebuilt its identity around nature-based, small-school programming that turns its mountain isolation into an educational strength.
History and topography, side by side.
Both its name (honoring Qing scholar-official Qiu Fengjia) and its "forest school" character root it in the history and topography of the Dakeng mountains, distinct from the unrelated Feng Chia University in downtown Taichung. See the Taichung county page for more on the region.
Find the school.
No. 60, Beikeng Ln., Beitun District, Taichung City, Taiwan
臺中市北屯區北坑巷60號
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