Niaosong Junior High School

Niaosong Junior High is one of Yunlin's most remarkable school turnaround stories. By 2010, enrollment at this small rural junior high had fallen to just 38 students, putting it at real risk of closure. Rather than shutting its doors, the school partnered with the Yunlin Traditional Education Foundation and reinvented itself around classical arts education, becoming Taiwan's first "publicly-funded, privately-managed" (公辦民營) art junior high in 2013. The transformation succeeded: on August 1, 2019, Niaosong merged with Mailiao Senior High's art experimental class to form Niaosong Arts Senior High School, now enrolling roughly 420 students — including students from across Taiwan and abroad.

蔦松國中的故事，是雲林縣最動人的學校翻轉案例之一。民國99年（2010年），這所偏鄉小校學生數一度僅剩38人，面臨裁併危機。學校並未選擇關閉，而是與財團法人雲林縣淵明國學文教基金會合作，以古典藝術教育重新定位自我，於民國102年（2013年）成為全台第一所「公辦民營」藝術國中。這場轉型獲得成功：民國108年（2019年）8月1日，蔦松國中與麥寮高中藝術實驗班合併，成立蔦松藝術高級中學，如今全校學生約420人，其中包含許多來自台灣各地及海外的學生。