Jiantan Elementary School

Jiantan Elementary School was founded in 1955 as a Zhongshan District school, a branch and successor of Zhongshan Elementary School's Jiantan branch. Uniquely among Shilin's schools, it was only administratively reassigned to Shilin District on February 1, 1989, when district boundaries were redrawn — most other Shilin schools trace their whole history within the district. Its main teaching buildings, "Qianzhan Building" and "Xinsheng Building," date to 1972; a kindergarten was added in 1987, and a resource class for students with disabilities in 1980. The school takes its name from Jiantan (Sword Lake/Pool), a site tied to a local legend about a sword left behind by a Ming-dynasty loyalist general.

劍潭國小創立於民國44年（1955年），原為中山區學校，是中山國小劍潭分校的後身。與士林區多數學校不同，劍潭國小是在民國78年（1989年）2月1日行政區劃調整後才劃歸士林區。主要教學大樓「前瞻樓」與「新生樓」建於1972年，1987年增設幼兒園，1980年增設資源班。校名源自「劍潭」——地方傳說中一位明代忠臣將軍在此留劍的故事。