Guangrong Experimental Elementary School

Guangrong Elementary was founded as an ordinary rural school around 1966 — a 2020 news report described it as "54 years old" when it converted to experimental-school status that year. Its origins as a fossil-focused institution trace to 1974, when principal Huang Huixiong started a "relics room" (文物室) displaying fossils collected by students and staff, which principal Tang Dequan expanded into a full "local heritage relics room" by 1978 before going on to head the standalone Cailiao Fossil Museum when it opened in 1981. In the 2020 school year the school converted to experimental status under the theme "School of the Future," adding a full-English-instruction track, arts education, and outdoor mountain-and-coast learning programs, and has won a provincial teaching-excellence silver award. Today it is Taiwan's only "school-museum combined" (校館合一) institution: its campus is physically integrated with the Cailiao Fossil Museum (菜寮化石館) and a former Natural History Education Center, now unified as the Zuozhen Fossil Park (臺南左鎮化石園區, opened 2019).

光榮國小創校約於民國55年（1966年），原為一般鄉村小學——民國109年（2020年）新聞報導稱其為「54年老校」轉制為實驗學校之年。其化石特色的起源可追溯至民國63年（1974年），校長黃輝雄設立「文物室」，展示師生蒐集之化石標本，民國67年（1978年）由校長唐德君擴充為完整的「鄉土文物室」，其後於民國70年（1981年）菜寮化石館獨立設館時出任館長。民國109學年度（2020年），學校以「跨域、探索與創造」為主題改制為實驗學校，設立全英語教學班、藝術教育及山海戶外探索課程，並曾獲省級教學卓越銀質獎。如今，本校是全台唯一「校館合一」的學校——校園與菜寮化石館及原自然史教育中心整合，共同構成臺南左鎮化石園區（2019年開園）。