Mudan Elementary School

Mudan Elementary School was founded in 1917, during the Japanese colonial era, as an indigenous children's education center; it was upgraded in 1925 and renamed the Mudan Education Institute in 1927. After Taiwan's 1945 retrocession it became Kaohsiung County Mudan Township Mudan National School, transferring to the newly established Pingtung County in 1950 and taking its present name in 1968. As of 2024, the school had 71 students across 6 classes — entirely indigenous, predominantly Paiwan with some Hengchun Amis students — plus an attached kindergarten of 16 students and 23 total staff. It serves three community areas: Mudan, Dongyuan, and Xuhai, partnering with community elders to preserve and transmit traditional language, crafts, folk customs, and artifacts from all three.

牡丹國小創立於大正6年（1917年）日治時期，最初為「蕃童教育所」，大正14年（1925年）升格，昭和2年（1927年）更名為「牡丹教育所」。台灣光復後改隸高雄縣牡丹鄉牡丹國民學校，民國39年（1950年）改隸新設立的屏東縣，民國57年（1968年）定名牡丹國小。截至民國113年（2024年），全校6班71名學生，全數為原住民，以排灣族為主，亦有部分恆春阿美族學生；附設幼兒園16名幼兒，全校教職員共23人。學校服務牡丹、東源、旭海三大社區，並與部落耆老合作，傳承三地的傳統語言、工藝、民俗與文物。