Dashan Elementary School

Dashan Elementary School began in 1919 as a satellite classroom of Madou Public School and became independent in 1921 as "Dashanjiao Public School." The place name "Dashan" ("big mountain") comes from a sand dune that emerged from a geological shift on the school's southwest side long ago — the village at its foot was named "Dashanjiao" ("foot of the big mountain") accordingly. The school sits at the intersection of the Nan-49 township road and Provincial Highway 171, on Madou's western edge toward Haipu Village, and hosts Tainan's first public elementary-school-based public childcare facility ("大山公共托育家園"), combining school grounds with a municipal childcare service.

大山國小創立於大正8年（1919年），最初為麻豆公學校分教場，1921年獨立設校，命名「大山腳公學校」。「大山」地名源自昔日一場地形變動所湧現的「沙山」，山腳下的聚落因而得名「大山腳」。學校位於南49鄉道與台171線交會處，屬麻豆西側靠近海埔里的區域，並設有台南市第一所以國小校園為基地的公共托育家園「大山公共托育家園」，結合校園場地與市立托育服務。