Datong Elementary School

Datong Elementary was founded in 1940 as "Dawu Public School," splitting off from Pingtung Public School (today's Zhongzheng Elementary) with just four classes. Over the following decades the school changed names repeatedly — Dawu National School in 1941, Pingtung City's 5th National School after Retrocession in 1945, South District Dawu National School in 1946, and finally Datong National School in 1950, becoming "Datong Elementary School" in 1968 under the nine-year compulsory education reform. Along the way, Datong itself became a "parent school": it split off Qianjin Elementary in 1949, nine classes to found Tongrong Elementary in 1951, and eleven more classes to found a school in Wannian Village in 1956 — making it one of the most prolific sources of new schools as Pingtung City's population grew.

大同國小創立於民國29年（1940年），初名「大武公學校」，自屏東公學校（今中正國小）分出，僅設4班。此後數十年間多次更名：民國30年（1941年）改為大武國民學校，民國34年（1945年）光復後改為屏東市第五國民學校，民國35年（1946年）改為屏東市南區大武國民學校，民國39年（1950年）改為大同國民學校，並於民國57年（1968年）九年國教實施後定名為「大同國民小學」。在此過程中，大同國小本身也成為「母校」：民國38年（1949年）分出前進國小；民國40年（1951年）分出9班成立同榮國小；民國45年（1956年）再分出11班於萬年里成立學校——隨著屏東市人口成長，是分出最多新校的學校之一。