Gaoyi Elementary School

Gaoyi Elementary was founded in October 1926 as “高義蘭番童教育所” (an aboriginal-children's education station). The original building burned down in 1938 and was rebuilt the following year as “高義教育所.” The school became independently established in 1948 as “新竹縣角板鄉高義國民學校,” was renamed for Taoyuan County in 1950, and took its current elementary designation in 1968 under the nine-year compulsory education reform. Its first official principal, Liao Xi-liang (廖錫諒), took office in January 1947, and an on-campus student lunch program began in September 1980. The school completed underground utility-line reconstruction in 2000 after damage from Typhoon Bilis, and has won a “special excellence” rating in the county's self-run school lunch evaluation nearly every year since 2002. In 2011, its principal, Wang Lien-chin, won the Ministry of Education's Outstanding Principal Leadership Award — the same year the school obtained its first-ever building permit, over 60 years after being established, illustrating how informally many of these mountain campuses were originally built.

高義國小創立於大正15年（1926年）10月，初名「高義蘭番童教育所」。原校舍於昭和13年（1938年）遭祝融焚毀，隔年（1939年）重建為「高義教育所」。民國37年（1948年）獨立設校為「新竹縣角板鄉高義國民學校」，民國39年（1950年）隨行政區劃更名桃園縣，民國57年（1968年）九年國教實施後定為現今國小學制。首任正式校長廖錫諒於民國36年（1947年）1月到任，民國69年（1980年）9月開辦校內營養午餐。學校於2000年完成因碧利斯颱風損壞而進行的地下管線重建工程，並自2002年起幾乎每年獲縣內自辦午餐評鑑「特優」肯定。民國100年（2011年），校長王連進獲教育部「校長領導卓越獎」；同年學校才取得創校逾一甲子以來的第一張建築執照，反映當年許多山區校舍興建之初的非正式性。