Hongye Elementary School

Hongye Elementary traces its roots to January 1934, when it opened under Japanese rule as an "educational institute for southern-savage children" (悅付南蕃童教育所) — the language of the era's colonial administration. Renamed several times over the decades, including a 1958 change to avoid duplicating a Taipei County township name, the school celebrated its 90th anniversary in the 2020s. Today it is a small campus of about six classes and roughly three dozen students, serving the Truku Indigenous community of Hongye Village. Note: Taiwan has three separate elementary schools named "Hongye" (紅葉國小) — in Taitung, Hualien, and Nantou. This school, in Wanrong Township, Hualien, is distinct from the Taitung Hongye Elementary famous for its 1968 Little League baseball upset over a visiting Japanese team.

紅葉國小的歷史可追溯至日治時期民國23年（1934年）1月25日設立的「悅付南蕃童教育所」。歷經數次更名，包括民國47年（1958年）為避免與台北縣某鄉鎮同名而改名，學校已慶祝建校90週年。目前全校約6班、37名學生，服務紅葉村的太魯閣族部落。特別說明：全台灣共有三所「紅葉國小」——分別位於台東、花蓮（本校）與南投。本校與因1968年紅葉少棒隊擊敗來訪日本球隊而聞名全台的台東紅葉國小並非同一所學校。