Guanghua Junior High School

Guanghua Junior High was founded in 1956 as "新竹縣立第一女子初級中學" (Hsinchu County First Girls' Junior High School) under founder Cao Jinying. It became coeducational and took its current name in 1968, alongside Taiwan's nine-year compulsory education reform, and became a municipal school in 1982. Over the following decades, two of its branch campuses grew into fully independent schools: Nanhua Junior High in 1983 and Sanmin Junior High in 1991.

光華國中創立於民國45年（1956年），初名「新竹縣立第一女子初級中學」，由創校校長曹金英女士所建立。民國57年（1968年），隨九年國教改制而改為男女合校並更名為現名，民國71年（1982年）改制為市立學校。此後，學校的兩個分部先後獨立設校：南華國中（1983年）與三民國中（1991年）。