Huagang Junior High School

Huagang Junior High School has carried its present name since August 1, 1968, but its site holds a much longer and more layered story. A Japanese-era elementary school stood here from 1910. After the war, in 1947, the site became the founding campus of Taiwan Provincial Hualien Normal School — the very first postwar normal school established anywhere in Taiwan — before that institution relocated to the Meilun area in 1960 and eventually grew into what is now National Dong Hwa University's Meilun Campus. Only after the normal school's departure was the site reorganized into today's county junior high school in 1968.

花崗國中自民國57年（1968年）8月1日起沿用現名，但校址本身承載著更為悠久且層次豐富的歷史。日治時期，此地自1910年起即設有小學校。戰後，1947年，此地成為「台灣省立花蓮師範學校」的創校校區——這是台灣戰後成立的第一所師範學校——該校於1960年遷至美崙地區，日後逐步發展成今日國立東華大學美崙校區的一部分。師範學校遷出後，此地才於1968年改制為今日的縣立國中。