From salt-workers' school to ecological experimental school.
Guangfu Elementary began in 1948 as "七股國小中寮分教室," a branch classroom of Qigu Elementary, and was promoted to an independent school under the name "光復國小" in 1954. Located in Yancheng Village — literally "salt-flat village" — the school once filled every grade to capacity with the children of local salt workers. After commercial salt harvesting ended, enrollment fell below 30 students total. In April 2016, it was approved as one of Tainan's four public experimental schools under the Ministry of Education's sustainable-campus initiative, and reopened as "光復生態實驗小學" (Guangfu Ecological Experimental Elementary School) with an ecology-centered curriculum.
光復國小創校於民國37年(1948年),最初為七股國小的分教室「七股國小中寮分教室」,民國43年(1954年)獨立設校並更名為「光復國小」。學校位於鹽埕里——地名意即「鹽田聚落」,鹽業全盛時期每個年級皆滿班(每班約50人),皆為鹽工子弟。曬鹽業結束後,全校學生數一度降至不到30人。2016年4月,學校獲教育部核定為台南市四所公立實驗小學之一,轉型為「光復生態實驗小學」,發展以生態為核心的課程。
What makes this school worth knowing.
🌱 One of Tainan's Four Experimental Schools
台南四所實驗小學之一
Approved in April 2016 under the Ministry of Education's sustainable-campus initiative, Guangfu reopened as an ecological experimental school with a curriculum built around its salt-flat surroundings.
🧂 A School Born of the Salt Trade
因鹽業而生的學校
Located in Yancheng ("salt-flat") Village, the school once filled every classroom with salt workers' children during the industry's peak, before enrollment shrank after commercial salt harvesting ended.
🦪 A "Dream Campus" Beside the Salt Mountain
鹽山旁的夢幻校園
Local media describe Guangfu as a "dream campus" where students routinely climb the nearby salt mountain and roast oysters as part of everyday field lessons.
An identity built on the rise and fall of the salt trade.
Guangfu's entire identity is tied to the rise and fall of the Qigu salt industry: built to serve salt workers' children in the postwar decades, and later reinvented as an ecological experimental school that uses the surrounding salt flats and lagoons as its outdoor classroom. See the Tainan city page for more on the region.
Find the school.
No. 1, Yancheng Village, Qigu Dist., Tainan City, Taiwan
724台南市七股區鹽埕里1號
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