From a private academy to a public high school.
Datong Senior High School's predecessor was founded in 1935 as the private "Taipei Citizens' Middle School," established within the campus of the private Chengyuan Academy on today's Wuchang Street — a decade before Taiwan's 1945 retrocession from Japan. It later relocated to the former site of a provincial school for the blind and deaf in Dalongdong.
On November 10, 1945, shortly after retrocession, it was renamed "Private Datong Middle School." In 1958, overcrowding pushed the school to its current site on Changchun Road in Zhongshan District, and in 1992 it became a full senior high with an attached junior-high division. Today it sits a short walk from MRT Xingtian Temple Station, along the busy commercial corridor between Zhongshan and neighboring Songshan and Datong districts.
大同高中的前身創立於1935年（昭和10年），最初為私立「臺北國民中學校」，設於今日五常街上私立成淵學園的校地內，早於1945年臺灣光復十年。其後因故遷至大龍峒一所省立盲聾學校舊址。
1945年11月10日，臺灣光復不久，學校更名為「私立大同中學」。1958年因校舍不敷使用，遷至現址中山區長春路；1992年改制為完全中學，設有高中部與國中部。如今校園鄰近捷運行天宮站，位於中山區與松山、大同區交界的商業繁華地帶。
What makes this school worth knowing.
🏫 Roots in a Private Academy
源起私立學園
The school began in 1935 inside the campus of the private Chengyuan Academy, a decade before Taiwan's retrocession — one of several Taipei schools with roots predating the postwar era.
🕊️ Renamed at Retrocession
光復後更名
Just weeks after Taiwan's 1945 retrocession from Japan, the school was renamed "Private Datong Middle School" on November 10, 1945 — a direct marker of that historical transition.
🏗️ A 1958 Move to Changchun Road
1958年遷校長春路
Overcrowding drove the school's relocation to its present Changchun Road campus in 1958, right as Zhongshan District's postwar residential and institutional buildout was accelerating.
🚇 A Doorstep MRT Station
鄰近行天宮捷運站
The campus sits a short walk from MRT Xingtian Temple Station, at the heart of the dense commercial corridor linking Zhongshan District with neighboring Songshan and Datong.
Growing up with postwar Zhongshan.
The school's 1958 relocation to Changchun Road placed it squarely inside the postwar residential and institutional buildout of Zhongshan District, an area that grew rapidly as Taipei expanded northward from the old walled city. See the Taipei county page for more on the region.
Find the school.
No. 167, Sec. 3, Changchun Rd., Zhongshan District, Taipei City 104, Taiwan
臺北市中山區長春路三段167號
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