A school that shared its grounds with garbage trucks.
Zhongxiao Elementary School's site was secured in 1968, with construction contracted in late 1970 — but the project was repeatedly delayed for years because a Taipei City sanitation department vehicle-maintenance garage occupying the site was slow to relocate. Students reportedly shared the unfinished, cramped grounds with garbage trucks for a period in the mid-1970s, until the garage fully vacated in 1976. The school only reached full K–6 grade coverage by 1978, graduating its first sixth-grade class the following year. Its name — "忠孝," loyalty and filial piety — echoes the Confucian-virtue street-naming scheme (Zhongxiao, Ren'ai, Xinyi, Heping) imposed on Taipei's road grid after 1945.
忠孝國小校地於民國57年(1968年)確定,民國59年(1970年)底發包興建,惟因原址上的臺北市政府清潔隊車輛維修車庫遷移緩慢,工程延宕多年。據傳1970年代中期,學生曾在未完工、擁擠的校地上與垃圾車共處一段時間,直至民國65年(1976年)車庫才完全遷出。學校至民國67年(1978年)始達成國小六年級完整學制,翌年首屆六年級畢業。校名「忠孝」呼應1945年後台北市街道命名沿用的儒家倫理命名系統(忠孝、仁愛、信義、和平)。
What makes this school worth knowing.
🚛 A Delayed Construction Story
建校延宕的故事
Construction was repeatedly delayed because a city sanitation garage occupied the site — students reportedly shared the unfinished grounds with garbage trucks before it fully vacated in 1976.
🎓 A Late First Graduating Class
1979年首屆畢業生
The school only reached full K–6 grade coverage by 1978, with its very first sixth-grade graduating class following in 1979 — a decade after the site was originally secured.
🏷️ A Confucian-Virtue Name
忠孝之名
The school's name — "loyalty and filial piety" (忠孝) — echoes the Confucian-virtue street-naming scheme imposed on Taipei's road grid after 1945, closely tied to postwar administrative planning.
A name from Taipei's postwar street grid.
The school's name echoes the Confucian-virtue street-naming scheme — Zhongxiao, Ren'ai, Xinyi, Heping — imposed on Taipei's road grid after 1945, a naming convention closely associated with Zhongzheng District's postwar administrative planning. See the Taipei county page for more on the region.
Find the school.
No. 101, Sec. 2, Zhongxiao E. Rd., Zhongzheng Dist., Taipei City 100, Taiwan
100台北市中正區忠孝東路二段101號
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