From a refinery classroom to a presidential alma mater.
Madou Junior High School traces its roots to a 1910 satellite classroom inside the Meiji Sugar Company's Madou (總爺) refinery compound, originally teaching just eight children — three boys, five girls — of the refinery's Japanese employees. It became an independent elementary school in 1912, moved to its present Nanshi site in 1933, and was reorganized as "Tainan County Tseng-Wen Junior High School" (臺南縣立曾文初級中學) in 1946, before eventually becoming a pure junior high in 1968 under the nine-year-education reform. As "Tseng-Wen Junior High," the school is the junior-high alma mater of former President Chen Shui-bian and his wife, Wu Shu-jen (吳淑珍). It briefly operated a senior-high division from 1956 to 1960, with branch campuses in Xiaying and Liujia that later became independent schools.
麻豆國中前身可追溯至1910年(明治43年)明治製糖株式會社麻豆(總爺)製糖廠內的小型分教場,最初僅教授8名日籍員工子女(3男5女)。1912年獨立設立為小學,1933年遷至現今南勢校址,1946年改制為「臺南縣立曾文初級中學」,1968年九年國教改制後成為純國中。作為「曾文初中」時期,該校是前總統陳水扁與夫人吳淑珍的國中母校。1956至1960年間曾短暫設有高中部,並在下營、六甲設有分校,後皆獨立設校。
What makes this school worth knowing.
🏭 Roots in a Sugar-Refinery Classroom
源自糖廠分教場
The school traces back to a 1910 satellite classroom inside the Meiji Sugar Company's Madou refinery, teaching just eight children of Japanese employees.
🎓 Junior-High Alma Mater of a President
前總統國中母校
As "Tseng-Wen Junior High," the school is the junior-high alma mater of former President Chen Shui-bian and his wife, Wu Shu-jen.
🏫 A Brief Senior-High Chapter
曾設高中部
Between 1956 and 1960, the school briefly ran a senior-high division with branch campuses in Xiaying and Liujia that later became independent schools.
🏛️ Reorganized Through the Reform Era
歷經改制
The school moved to its present site in 1933 and became a pure junior high in 1968 under the nine-year compulsory education reform.
Born inside a sugar-refinery compound.
The school's origin inside the Meiji Sugar Company refinery compound — whose historic buildings now form the Zongye Art and Cultural Center (總爺藝文中心) — directly reflects Madou's history as a major sugar-industry town before its modern reputation as Taiwan's pomelo capital. See the Tainan county page for more on the region.
Find the school.
No. 36, Nanshi Village, Madou District, Tainan City 721, Taiwan
721臺南市麻豆區南勢里36號
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