A farm school that grew with the city around it.
Songshan Vocational High School of Agriculture and Industry was founded in February 1949 as the "Taipei Municipal Junior Agricultural School," taking over land that had belonged to the Japanese-era Taihoku Prefectural Fourth Middle School. Construction broke ground on May 3, 1949 — a date the school still celebrates as its anniversary. It was renamed "Taipei Municipal Agricultural Vocational School" in 1955 after adding senior-level programs, split off its junior-high division in 1968 (which became today's Heping Junior High School), and took its present name in 1981.
松山工農創立於1949年（民國38年）2月，初名「臺北市立初級農業學校」，校地承接自日治時期的「臺北州立第四中學校」。同年5月3日動土興建，這一天至今仍是學校的校慶紀念日。1955年增設高級部後改名為「臺北市立農業職業學校」，1968年因九年國教實施，初中部分出另設「和平國中」，1981年（民國70年）正式定名為現今校名。
What makes this school worth knowing.
🌱 A Working Farm in the Financial District
金融區裡的實習農園
The school's Horticulture Department still operates a separate working farm on Wuxing Street inside Xinyi District — a rare surviving agricultural site amid Taipei's dense financial and government core.
🏗️ Built on Japanese-Era School Land
校地承襲日治時期學府
The campus was established in 1949 on land formerly used by the Japanese-era Taihoku Prefectural Fourth Middle School, with construction breaking ground on May 3 — still marked as the school's anniversary.
🔀 A Split That Created Another School
分出和平國中
When nine-year compulsory education began in 1968, the school's junior-high division split off to become Heping Junior High School, while the senior agricultural division moved to its current site.
🚜 Decades of Agricultural Education
深耕農業教育
Renamed several times as it grew, the school reached its current name, "Songshan Vocational High School of Agriculture and Industry," in 1981, reflecting its dual agricultural and industrial mission.
Farmland surviving inside a financial district.
The school's farm on Wuxing Street is one of the last working agricultural plots inside Xinyi District, a striking contrast with the district's transformation into Taipei's financial and government center around Taipei 101. Where Xinyi is now known worldwide for skyscrapers and shopping malls, this small horticultural plot is a living reminder that the area was farmland and hillside villages before postwar and 1990s urban redevelopment. See the Taipei city page for more on the region.
Find the school.
No. 15, Lane 236, Section 5, Zhongxiao East Road, Xinyi District, Taipei City 110, Taiwan
臺北市信義區忠孝東路5段236巷15號
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