Jiamin Elementary School

Jiamin Elementary traces its roots to 1934, when it opened under Japanese colonial rule as a "蕃童教育所" (banjo kyōikusho) — an education post specifically for Indigenous children. It was reorganized as Jiamin National School in 1946 after Taiwan's retrocession. As the population of Xiulin's mountain valleys grew through the mid-20th century, Jiamin spawned two branch schools that later became fully independent: Shuiyuan Elementary in 1955 and Jingmei Elementary in 1958. In its early decades, the school also took part in American-aid and World Food Programme child nutrition supplement efforts, reflecting how deeply postwar international aid touched even Taiwan's most remote schools.

佳民國小的歷史可追溯至1934年，日治時期以「蕃童教育所」之名創立，專門招收原住民學童。台灣光復後，於1946年改制為佳民國民學校。隨著秀林鄉山谷人口在二十世紀中葉持續增長，佳民國小陸續分出兩所日後獨立設校的分校：1955年的水源國小與1958年的景美國小。建校初期，學校也曾參與美援與聯合國世界糧食計畫的兒童營養補給工作，可見二戰後的國際援助也深入台灣最偏遠的校園。