Born in a borrowed classroom, grown into a neighborhood fixture.
Guanghua Junior High School began preparations in 1976 and formally opened in 1977, with its first students borrowing classrooms at nearby Lequn Elementary School before the school moved to its own campus in 1978. It was founded to serve the rapidly growing population along Cianjhen's Heping Road corridor, which transformed from farmland into dense residential neighborhoods through the late 1960s and 1970s. Its alumni include professional baseball players and film actors.
光華國中於民國65年(1976年)成立籌備處,民國66年(1977年)正式招生,首屆學生借用鄰近樂群國小的教室上課,於1978年遷入現址。學校的設立呼應了前鎮和平路一帶自1960年代末至1970年代由農地迅速轉變為密集住宅區的都市化浪潮。校友中包括職業棒球選手與電影演員。
What makes this school worth knowing.
🏫 Born From a Borrowed Classroom
借教室起家
The school's first class studied in borrowed classrooms at Lequn Elementary before moving to its own Heping Road campus in 1978.
⚾ Alumni on the Diamond and Screen
職棒與影壇校友
Graduates have gone on to careers as professional baseball players and film actors, an unusual double legacy for a district junior high.
🏙️ Product of a 1970s Building Boom
1970年代都市擴張的產物
Guanghua Junior High was founded to keep pace with Cianjhen's rapid transformation from farmland into dense residential streets along Heping Road.
Cianjhen's farmland-to-city transformation.
The Heping Road corridor where Guanghua sits was farmland as recently as the late 1960s, before rapid urbanization turned it into one of Cianjhen's denser residential districts within a single decade — a transformation the school's own founding story directly reflects. See the Kaohsiung county page for more on the region.
Find the school.
No. 170, Heping 2nd Rd., Cianjhen District, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
高雄市前鎮區和平二路170號
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