A small school with a century-long thread of history.
Luye Elementary traces its origins to "Luye Public School" (鹿野公學校), founded in 1923 during the Japanese colonial era to educate Han Chinese children near the Luye train station. The school went through several name changes and a period of closure across the following decades, re-emerging as an independent "Luye National School" in 1961 and taking its present name, Luye National Elementary School, in 1968 as part of Taiwan's nine-year compulsory education reform. In 2005, it was designated an Indigenous Focus School. Today it is a small campus — about 38 students across six classes as of 2024 — serving Luye Village and the nearby Heping (Parayapai) settlement.
鹿野國小的前身「鹿野公學校」創立於大正12年（1923年），日治時期供漢人子弟就讀，校址鄰近鹿野車站。歷經多次更名與一段停辦期後，於民國50年（1961年）獨立設校為「鹿野國民學校」，民國57年（1968年）配合九年國民教育政策改制為現名「鹿野國民小學」。民國94年（2005年），本校列為原住民重點學校。截至2024年，全校僅約38名學生、六個班級，服務範圍涵蓋龍田村與鄰近的和平（Parayapai）部落。
What makes this school worth knowing.
🎼 An Ocarina and Recorder Legacy
陶笛與直笛合奏隊
After years of fielding baseball, basketball, and field hockey teams, shrinking enrollment led the school to concentrate its energy on ocarina and recorder ensembles as its signature music program.
🏫 Nearly a Century of Continuity
近百年校史
The school's lineage runs back to a 1923 village school for Han settlers near the Luye train station — through name changes, a wartime-era closure, and a 1961 refounding — to the campus operating today.
🪶 An Indigenous Focus School
原住民重點學校
Designated an Indigenous Focus School in 2005, the school serves a student body that is now majority Indigenous — mostly Amis — including children from the nearby Heping (Parayapai) settlement.
🎒 A Very Small Campus
小校小班
With roughly 38 students across six elementary classes as of 2024, Luye Elementary is a tight-knit rural school shaped by Taiwan's declining birth rate, like many of its neighbors in the East Rift Valley.
Luye Township, land of balloons and tea.
Luye Township 鹿野鄉 is famous for its annual hot-air balloon festival and its high-altitude tea-growing plateau. Luye Elementary sits in the township's village center near the historic train station, within reach of both the balloon festival grounds and the highland tea fields that define the local economy.
Find the school.
No. 402, Sec. 1, Zhonghua Rd., Luye Township, Taitung County 95542, Taiwan
95542臺東縣鹿野鄉中華路一段402號
School's Official Website (Chinese) ↗
Last updated: July 2026 · Content adapted and condensed from the school's official Chinese-language website by the Taiwan Bilingual Hub team, not yet reviewed by the school. If you're from Luye Elementary and would like to correct or expand this page, please contact us.