Nanzhuang Junior High School

Nanzhuang Junior High School was founded during Nanzhuang's timber and mining boom, when the local population reached over 20,000 and remote mountain roads forced students to board away from home for schooling. A preparatory committee formed on April 7, 1961, groundbreaking followed on April 23, and classes began that August as Nanzhuang Junior Middle School, renamed Nanzhuang Junior High in 1968. Today it remains the only junior high school serving all of Nanzhuang Township, located about 650 meters from the historic Nanzhuang Old Street and Guihua Lane tourist area, and its students take part in Miaoli County indigenous traditional sports competitions.

南庄國中創立於南庄鄉林礦業興盛、人口一度超過兩萬人的時期，因山區道路偏遠，學生原本須寄宿外地就學。籌備委員會於1961年（民國50年）4月7日成立，4月23日動土，同年8月正式開學，初名「南庄初級中學」，1968年更名為南庄國民中學。如今南庄國中仍是全鄉唯一一所國中，距離歷史悠久的南庄老街與桂花巷觀光區約650公尺，學生也參與苗栗縣原住民傳統運動會等競賽。