Fenglin Junior High School

Fenglin Junior High evolved out of a Japanese-era vocational agricultural school around the transition from Japanese rule to Republic of China governance in 1945–46, formally taking the name "Fenglin Junior High" in 1968. Its early history carries a weighty and poignant connection to Fenglin's identity as a "town of doctors": physician Zhang Qi-lang served as acting principal of the predecessor agricultural school starting in November 1945, and his son Zhang Zong-ren later became principal of the reorganized junior high. Tragically, Zhang Qi-lang and two of his sons were executed during the 228 Incident — one of the darkest chapters in Taiwan's modern history — making the school's founding story inseparable from Fenglin's own.

鳳林國中的前身是日治時期的農業學校，在1945至1946年間台灣由日本統治過渡至中華民國政府治理之際逐步演變，並於民國57年（1968年）正式定名「鳳林國中」。其早期歷史與鳳林「醫生之鄉」的身分有著沉重而動人的連結：醫師張七郎自民國34年（1945年）11月起代理前身農業學校校長一職，其子張宗仁後來也成為改制後國中的校長。然而，張七郎與其兩名兒子後來在228事件中不幸罹難——這是台灣近代史上最黑暗的篇章之一，使這所學校的創校故事與鳳林鎮的歷史緊密交織，密不可分。