From a Qing-dynasty academy to a modern school.
Jinxue Elementary School was founded on April 8, 1919 as "Tainan No. 3 Public School" (臺南第三公學校). Its original site stood on the west side of the Tainan Confucius Temple, on the grounds of the former Haidong Academy (海東書院), a prominent Qing-dynasty Confucian academy — giving the school a direct institutional lineage from classical Confucian education. Renamed "Suehiro Public School" in 1928, the school relocated to its current site in 1930 due to space constraints. Its campus buildings were destroyed by Allied bombing near the end of World War II; a courtyard coconut palm reportedly still bears visible bomb-fragment scars from that era.
進學國小創校於1919年（大正8年）4月8日，初名「臺南第三公學校」。原址位於臺南孔廟西側，前身為清代重要儒學書院「海東書院」舊址，使學校與古典儒學教育有著直接的傳承脈絡。1928年改稱「末廣公學校」，1930年（昭和5年）因校地空間不足遷至現址。二戰末期校舍曾遭盟軍轟炸摧毀，據傳校園中一棵椰子樹至今仍可見當年彈片留下的痕跡。
What makes this school worth knowing.
📜 Built on a Qing-Era Academy
海東書院舊址
The school's original 1919 campus occupied the grounds of the Qing-era Haidong Academy, one of Tainan's most prominent classical academies — a direct institutional lineage from Confucian education.
🌴 A Tree Scarred by War
彈痕椰子樹
A courtyard palm tree with visible WWII-era shrapnel scarring remains a distinctive physical relic on campus, a quiet reminder of the bombing that destroyed the original school buildings.
⛩️ Beside the Confucius Temple
緊鄰孔廟
The school's original site stood directly beside the Tainan Confucius Temple, continuing a location with centuries of classical-education use in the old walled city.
Centuries of classical education on one site.
The school's original 1919 campus occupied the grounds of the Qing-dynasty Haidong Academy (海東書院) beside the Confucius Temple, directly continuing a site with centuries of classical-education use in the old walled city. See the Tainan county page for more on the region.
Find the school.
No. 47, Nanning St., Zhongxi Dist., Tainan City 700-019, Taiwan
700-019臺南市中西區南寧街47號
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