Hujing Elementary School

Hujing Elementary began in 1922 as a Japanese-era branch classroom of Magong's "第一公學校" (First Public School), on Hujing Islet, a small offshore island south of Magong known for its dramatic basalt sea cliffs. The teaching post was discontinued and revived more than once through the 1930s and 1940s before becoming an independent school in 1946 as "虎井國民學校." For a time it even managed its own branch school on neighboring Tongpan Islet, founded in 1957. It took its current name in 1968 and again in 1981. But as Penghu's outlying islands steadily lost population to the mainland and to Taiwan proper, enrollment dwindled year after year — until, by its final years, Hujing had become the smallest school in Taiwan. On July 1, 2024, with its last two graduating students having left, the school was formally dissolved and folded into Magong Elementary School as the "Hujing Branch Campus" (虎井分部). We keep this page as a historical record of a school that served its island community for over a century.

虎井國小創立於日治大正11年（1922年），最初是馬公「第一公學校」在虎井嶼（澎湖南方一座以壯麗玄武岩海崖聞名的小離島）設立的分教場。這個教育據點在昭和年間歷經數次停辦與復辦，直到民國35年（1946年）才獨立設校，稱「虎井國民學校」。學校一度還在鄰近的桶盤嶼設立分校（1957年創立）。校名於民國57年（1968年）與民國70年（1981年）先後調整為現名。然而隨著澎湖離島人口持續外流至台灣本島與縣府所在地，學校學生數逐年遞減——到了最後幾年，虎井國小已成為全臺灣最小的學校。民國113年（2024年）7月1日，隨著最後兩名畢業生離校，學校正式廢校，併入馬公國小成為「虎井分部」。我們保留此頁面，作為這所服務島嶼社區逾一世紀的學校的歷史紀錄。