A small campus with a nation-building name.
Jianguo Elementary School was established in 1954, part of a wave of new elementary schools built across Kaohsiung in the years following the postwar reorganization of the city's education system. Its name, "Jianguo" (建國, "nation-building"), reflects the optimistic civic language common to schools founded in that era. Today it remains a small, close-knit campus, with about 271 students across 14 classes serving families in Cianjin District.
建國國小創立於民國43年（1954年），是戰後高雄市教育體系重整期間新設立的學校之一。校名「建國」反映了當時普遍的建校命名風氣，帶有振興國家的期許。如今學校仍維持小而精緻的規模，全校約271名學生、14個班級，服務前金區的學童家庭。
What makes this school worth knowing.
🏫 A 1954 Addition to Cianjin's Schools
民國43年設校
Jianguo Elementary opened in 1954, part of the wave of new elementary schools built as Kaohsiung's education system expanded after the war.
🇹🇼 A Name Rooted in Nation-Building
校名寄寓建國期許
The school's name, "Jianguo" (建國, literally "nation-building"), reflects the hopeful civic language common to schools founded in the early postwar decades.
🏫 A Small, Close-Knit Campus
小而精緻的校園
With about 271 students across 14 classes, Jianguo Elementary remains one of Cianjin District's smaller, more intimate school communities.
One of Cianjin's postwar-era neighborhood schools.
Jianguo Elementary sits within Cianjin (前金), one of old Takao's earliest-settled hamlets whose name traces back to a historic capital fund used for early land reclamation near the Love River estuary. See the Kaohsiung county page for more on the region.
Find the school.
No. 111, Zili 2nd Rd., Cianjin District, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
高雄市前金區自立二路111號
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