Jiala's first school, now over a century old.
Dongyuan Elementary School opened in March 1912 as a branch campus of Daan Public School, serving the Jiala (加蚋) area of southern Wanhua. It became an independent school the following year under the name Jiala Public School (加蚋公學校), then was renamed Dongyuan Public School in 1922, Dongyuan National School in 1941, and finally took its current name, Dongyuan National Elementary School, in 1968. As the first school established in Jiala, Dongyuan anchors more than a century of education in what was once a farming and market-garden hamlet south of the walled Bangka settlement.
東園國小創立於大正元年（1912年）3月，最初為大安公學校加蚋分校，服務萬華南側加蚋地區。隔年獨立設校，命名為「加蚋公學校」，1922年更名為「東園公學校」，1941年再改為「東園國民學校」，1968年定名為現今的「東園國民小學」。作為加蚋地區設立的第一所學校，東園國小見證了這個曾是艋舺城牆聚落以南農園聚落的百年教育發展。
What makes this school worth knowing.
🥇 Jiala's First School
加蚋仔第一所學校
Dongyuan was the first school established in the Jiala area, opening in 1912 as a branch of Daan Public School and becoming independent the following year.
🏷️ Four Names Across a Century
歷經四次更名
From Jiala Public School to today's Dongyuan National Elementary School, the school's four name changes trace the shifting administrative eras of 20th-century Taiwan.
🌱 Over a Century in Jiala
逾百年的加蚋仔教育史
Now more than 100 years old, Dongyuan anchors the historic Jiala hamlet's identity, having outlasted the area's shift from farmland to dense urban neighborhood.
The old market-garden hamlet of Jiala.
As the founding school of Jiala (加蚋仔), historically a farming and market-garden hamlet south of the walled Bangka (艋舺) settlement, Dongyuan Elementary anchors that older agrarian identity within present-day Wanhua. Jiala families would have long looked north to Bangka's core — centered on Longshan Temple (龍山寺) and the traditional apothecaries of Herb Lane (青草巷) — for trade, healing, and worship, a relationship still woven into Wanhua's geography today.
Find the school.
No. 195, Dongyuan St., Wanhua District, Taipei City, Taiwan
臺北市萬華區東園街195號
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