An open campus beside Ximending, named for a martyr.
Fuxing Elementary School was founded in October 1898 as Taipei Elementary School (臺北小學校), originally serving Japanese children. It went through several renamings under colonial rule — Taipei First Ordinary Higher Elementary School, then Taipei Higher Elementary School, then Taipei Municipal Suehiro Higher Elementary School — before being renamed Fuxing in February 1946 to honor Luo Fuxing (羅福星), a martyr of the anti-Japanese resistance. The school founded Taiwan's first children's choir in 1951, created by Lin Fuyu, and won the Ministry of Education's 2nd Arts Education Contribution Award in 2015; it also merged with the former Zhongxing Elementary School in 2004. Sitting beside the site of the old Zhonghua Shopping Market (中華商場, demolished in 1992), Fuxing has an open, wall-free campus design that functions almost as an extension of the surrounding Ximending streetscape.
福星國小創立於明治31年（1898年）10月，初名「臺北小學校」，最初僅招收日籍學童。日治時期歷經數次更名，先後改為臺北第一尋常高等小學校、臺北高等小學校、臺北市末廣高等小學校，直到1946年2月才更名為「福星」，紀念抗日烈士羅福星。學校於1951年由林福裕創辦全台第一支兒童合唱團，並於2015年榮獲教育部第二屆藝術教育貢獻獎；2004年併入原中興國小。校址緊鄰已於1992年拆除的中華商場舊址，校園採無圍牆開放式設計，幾乎與周邊的西門町街景融為一體。
What makes this school worth knowing.
🎵 Taiwan's First Children's Choir
全台首支兒童合唱團
Founded in 1951 by Lin Fuyu, Fuxing's children's choir was the first of its kind in Taiwan, laying groundwork for the school's later Ministry of Education arts award in 2015.
🕊️ Named for a Resistance Martyr
紀念抗日烈士羅福星
The school took its present name in February 1946 to honor Luo Fuxing, a martyr of the anti-Japanese resistance — a deliberate break from its earlier Japanese-era names.
🏫 A Campus Without Walls
無圍牆開放校園
Fuxing's open, wall-free campus design lets it flow almost seamlessly into the surrounding streets of Ximending, an unusual layout among Taipei's public elementary schools.
🛍️ Beside the Old Zhonghua Market
中華商場舊址旁
Sitting next to the site of the old Zhonghua Shopping Market, demolished in 1992, Fuxing was long a school of choice for the children of merchant families who worked there.
Adjoining Ximending, at the old West Gate.
Fuxing Elementary adjoins Ximending (西門町), Taipei's old entertainment and commercial quarter that grew up around the historic West Gate of the walled city. While Ximending sits at Wanhua's northern edge, it shares the district's deeper roots in Bangka (艋舺), also known as Monga, whose historic core farther south is still centered on Longshan Temple (龍山寺) and the traditional shops of Herb Lane (青草巷) — together spanning the full arc of Wanhua's identity, from old temple town to modern entertainment district.
Find the school.
No. 64, Sec. 1, Zhonghua Rd., Wanhua District, Taipei City, Taiwan
臺北市萬華區中華路一段64號
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