Founded by a community, one household at a time.
Ligang Junior High was founded in June 1947 by local Yanpu Township elder Xie Quan-zai, on the site of a former Japanese-era immigrant-village elementary school. Funded by NT$700,000 raised locally by Yanpu Township residents, the school opened its doors on November 8, 1947 — a date it still marks as its founding anniversary — under its first principal, Yang Qing-hui. Initially named Kaohsiung County Xinxing Junior High School, it was transferred to Pingtung County in 1950 and renamed Ligang Junior High. In 1962 a Jiuru branch class was added, becoming independent as Jiuru Junior High in 1963, and a Yanpu branch spun off as its own junior high in 1964.
里港國中創立於民國36年（1947年）6月，由鹽埔鄉仕紳謝全在先生發起，校址位於日治時期移民村國小舊址。建校經費由鹽埔鄉民集資新台幣70萬元籌措而成，於1947年11月8日正式開學——這一天至今仍是學校的創校紀念日，首任校長為楊清輝先生。學校初名「高雄縣立新興初級中學」，1950年劃歸屏東縣，更名為「里港國中」。1962年增設九如分班，1963年獨立為九如國中；1964年鹽埔分校也獨立設校。
What makes this school worth knowing.
🤝 Founded by Community Fundraising
仕紳集資創校
The school's founding was funded by NT$700,000 raised locally by Yanpu Township residents in 1947 — a striking example of grassroots community investment in education.
🌳 A Parent School to Two Others
分出九如、鹽埔兩校
Ligang Junior High spun off both Jiuru Junior High (1963) and a Yanpu junior high (1964) from its own branch classes, making it a founding institution for secondary education across the region.
📅 A Founding Day Still Celebrated
創校紀念日
November 8, 1947 — the school's opening day — remains its founding anniversary, a link to its community-funded origins nearly 80 years ago.
Agricultural roots near Cishan.
Ligang Township is an agricultural plains area adjacent to Cishan, well known for pig's-knuckle cuisine, betel-nut, and rice and produce farming. The school's founding — funded by local residents banding together in the aftermath of the war — reflects the area's early 20th-century tradition of agricultural community organizing, a spirit still visible in Ligang's tight-knit farming villages today.
Find the school.
No. 10, Lizhong Rd., Chunlin Village, Ligang Township, Pingtung County 905, Taiwan
屏東縣里港鄉春林村里中路10號
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