The first school in Pingzhen District.
Nanshi Elementary was founded in 1912, during the first year of the Taisho era of Japanese rule, making it the very first school established in Pingzhen District. Over the following century it was renamed repeatedly, tracking Taiwan's political transitions: Nanshi Public School in 1916, Nanshi National School in 1941, Pingzhen Township Central National School in 1946, Pingzhen Township Nanshi National School in 1950, and finally Nanshi Elementary School in 1968. The school celebrated its 110th anniversary with a visit from the Taoyuan mayor, who called it a model school for the city's progress, and it is widely cited as the oldest school in the entire district.
南勢國小創立於1912年，日治大正元年，是平鎮區設立的第一所學校。百餘年來歷經多次更名，見證了台灣的政治變遷：1916年更名「南勢公學校」、1941年改為「南勢國民學校」、1946年改稱「平鎮鄉中心國民學校」、1950年再改為「平鎮鄉南勢國民學校」，1968年始定名為現今的「南勢國小」。學校慶祝建校110週年時，桃園市長親臨致賀，並稱許本校為市政發展的模範學校，至今仍被公認為平鎮區歷史最悠久的學府。
What makes this school worth knowing.
🥇 The First School in Pingzhen
平鎮第一所學校
Founded in 1912, Nanshi Elementary was the very first school established in Pingzhen District, and remains its oldest institution.
🔄 A Century of Name Changes
歷經多次更名
The school was renamed five times across the 20th century, from its 1912 founding through Japanese colonial rule and into the postwar Republic of China era, before settling on its current name in 1968.
🎉 A 110th Anniversary Celebrated by the Mayor
建校110週年
The school's 110th anniversary drew a visit from the Taoyuan mayor, who praised it as a model school for the city's progress.
Pingzhen's very first school.
As Pingzhen's very first school, founded over a century ago in 1912, Nanshi Elementary is directly woven into the district's earliest Hakka settlement and community-building history — a living record of Pingzhen's transformation from farm village to modern city.
Find the school.
No. 223, Sec. 2, Nanshi, Zhongfeng Rd., Pingzhen Dist., Taoyuan City 324, Taiwan
桃園市平鎮區中豐路南勢二段223號
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