A mountain junior high, reinvented.
Pinglin Junior High opened in the late 1960s (1967–1968) to serve this mountain tea-growing township along the Beishi River. In 2021, the school entered a new era, becoming one of New Taipei City's first two publicly-run "KIST" (KIPP Inspired School in Taiwan) experimental junior highs, in partnership with the Chengzhi Education Foundation. Its curriculum is built around educator Nel Noddings' "ethics of care," and the school has built a lively co-curricular life — its taiko drum team and wind band have both won municipal-level honors.
坪林國中創立於民國56、57年間（1967、1968年），服務這座沿北勢溪而立的產茶山城。民國110年（2021年），學校邁入新階段，成為新北市首批兩所公辦KIST（KIPP台灣典範）實驗國中之一，與誠致教育基金會合作辦學。課程以教育學者Nel Noddings的「關懷倫理學」為核心理念，並發展出活躍的社團生活——其太鼓隊與管樂團均曾獲得市級榮譽肯定。
What makes this school worth knowing.
🥁 A Taiko Drum Team With Municipal Honors
太鼓隊獲市級獎項
The school's taiko drum team has won recognition at the municipal level, part of a broader push to give students confidence through performance and teamwork.
🎷 A Wind Band to Match
管樂團同獲肯定
Alongside taiko drumming, the school's wind band has also earned municipal-level honors, showing a campus that invests seriously in music education.
🌱 Reborn as a KIST Experimental School
2021年轉型KIST實驗國中
In 2021, Pinglin became one of New Taipei's first two publicly-run KIST experimental junior highs, partnering with the Chengzhi Education Foundation to rethink how the school teaches.
💧 Care for Nature, Taught by the River
沿北勢溪的關懷倫理課程
Built on Nel Noddings' "ethics of care," the school's curriculum uses Pinglin's tea-covered hills and the Beishi River itself as a living classroom for environmental and social responsibility.
Pinglin, Taiwan's Pouchong tea heartland.
Pinglin District is Taiwan's Pouchong tea (包種茶) heartland, its hillsides terraced with tea gardens that have supplied the trade for generations, while the Beishi River (北勢溪) running through it also feeds the Feitsui Reservoir, one of greater Taipei's main water sources. The junior high's "care for nature" curriculum strand is taught directly through these hills and the river, tying the school's educational mission to the township's identity as a tea-and-water landscape. See the New Taipei county page for more on the region.
Find the school.
No. 4, Guozhong Rd., Pinglin District, New Taipei City, Taiwan
新北市坪林區國中路4號
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