Music and language on the foothill edge.
Neipu Elementary was founded in 1939, during the Japanese colonial era, and celebrated its 86th anniversary in the 2025-2026 school year. Designated a "neither mountain nor city" (非山非市) semi-rural school, it hosts a bilingual teaching resource center and runs multiple music ensembles, including a guqin (Chinese zither) group and a taiko drum performance team, alongside reading promotion and native-language learning programs.
內埔國小創立於民國28年（1939年）日治時期，2025至2026學年舉辦86週年校慶。學校被列為「非山非市」學校，設有雙語教學資源中心，並經營古琴合奏團與太鼓表演團等多元音樂社團，同時推動閱讀教育與原住民族語學習資源。
What makes this school worth knowing.
🌐 A Bilingual Teaching Hub
雙語教學資源中心
Neipu hosts a bilingual teaching resource center, giving it a role beyond its own classrooms in supporting bilingual education locally.
🎻 Guqin and Taiko Ensembles
古琴合奏團與太鼓表演團
The school's music program includes a guqin ensemble and a taiko drum performance group — an unusual musical range for a small rural elementary school.
🎉 86 Years and Counting
86週年校慶
The school marked its 86th anniversary in the 2025-2026 school year, reflecting a long history serving Zhuqi's lower foothill communities.
📖 Reading and Mother-Tongue Learning
閱讀與母語學習
Alongside science and health-promotion programs, Neipu maintains native-language learning resources and an attached kindergarten.
Where the plains meet the mountains.
Neipu sits in Zhuqi's lower foothill area, along the route toward the Alishan Forest Railway corridor — a transitional landscape where the flat plains give way to the rising terrain that leads up to the mountains. See the Chiayi county page for more on the region.
Find the school.
No. 2, Yuanxing Rd., Neipu Village, Zhuqi Township, Chiayi County 604, Taiwan
604 嘉義縣竹崎鄉內埔村援興路2號
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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 Neipu Elementary School and would like to correct or expand this page, please contact us.