From the city's second junior high to today's Qianjin.
Qianjin Junior High opened in 1946 as Kaohsiung Municipal Second Junior High School, one of the first junior highs established in the city after the war. It absorbed the short-lived Municipal Third Junior High School in 1947, briefly added a senior-high division in 1954, and took its current name, Qianjin Junior High, in 1968 when the school became fully coeducational under Taiwan's new nine-year compulsory education system. In 1990 it laid central Kaohsiung's first all-weather running track, and it today runs gifted-education and music/arts-talent classes.
前金國中創校於民國35年（1946年），初名「高雄市立第二初級中學」，是戰後高雄市最早設立的國中之一。民國36年（1947年）併入短暫設立的「市立第三初級中學」，民國43年（1954年）一度附設高中部，至民國57年（1968年）九年國教實施、學校全面男女合校後，正式定名為「前金國中」。民國79年（1990年）鋪設高雄市區第一條PU全天候跑道，現設有資優班與音樂、美術等藝術才能班。
What makes this school worth knowing.
🏫 Born as Kaohsiung's Second Municipal Junior High
前身為市立第二初中
Opening in 1946, the school absorbed the short-lived Municipal Third Junior High just a year later, before settling into its present name and coeducational identity in 1968.
🎓 A Brief Senior-High Chapter
曾附設高中部
In 1954 the school briefly ran its own senior-high division, a common arrangement for early postwar junior highs before the system was standardized.
🏃 Central Kaohsiung's First All-Weather Track
市區首條PU跑道
In 1990, Qianjin Junior High laid the first all-weather (PU) running track in central Kaohsiung, upgrading its athletics facilities ahead of many neighboring schools.
🎨 Gifted and Arts-Talent Classes
資優與藝術才能班
The school runs dedicated gifted-education classes alongside music and visual-arts talent programs for students with special aptitude.
Named for Cianjin's historic "advance capital."
The school sits in Cianjin (前金), one of old Takao's earliest-settled hamlets — a name rooted in a historic capital fund (“前金,” literally “advance capital”) used to finance early land reclamation near the mouth of the Love River. See the Kaohsiung county page for more on the region.
Find the school.
No. 278, Liuhe 2nd Rd., Cianjin District, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
高雄市前金區六合二路278號
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