A century of names, a century of history.
Dalun Elementary was founded in 1919, during the Taishō era of Japanese colonial rule, after local community leader Song Ronghua and others successfully petitioned for a school to serve the area; its first principal was Japanese administrator Suga Umetaro. Over the following century, the school changed names repeatedly as Taiwan's political landscape shifted — from Dalun Public School (1941) to Hsinchu County's Zhongli Township Dalun Elementary (1946, after retrocession), then Taoyuan County's version (1950), Taoyuan City's Zhongli City school (1968, under nine-year compulsory education), and finally its current name after Taoyuan's 2014 upgrade to a special municipality. The school celebrated its centennial with the participation of the city government.
大崙國小創立於日治大正8年（1919年），由地方仕紳宋榮華等人陳情設校，首任校長為日籍的須賀梅太郎。百餘年來，校名隨台灣政局更迭數度變更：1941年改稱「大崙國民學校」，1946年台灣光復後改隸新竹縣「中壢鎮大崙國民學校」，1950年改隸桃園縣，1968年九年國教實施後改稱「桃園縣中壢市大崙國民小學」，2014年桃園升格直轄市後定名為現名。學校曾於市府參與下舉辦百年校慶。
What makes this school worth knowing.
🏛️ Over a Century of History
建校逾百年
Founded in 1919 under Japanese colonial rule, Dalun Elementary celebrated its centennial with the participation of the Taoyuan city government — one of Zhongli's oldest continuously operating schools.
📜 A Name That Tracked a Century of Politics
校名見證政局變遷
The school's name changed at least five times — from its 1941 colonial-era name through the postwar retrocession, the 1968 compulsory-education reform, and Taoyuan's 2014 city upgrade — each shift a marker of Taiwan's changing political landscape.
🙌 Founded by Local Petition
地方陳情設校
The school exists because local leader Song Ronghua and fellow community members successfully petitioned colonial authorities for a school, a grassroots origin rare among schools of its era.
One school, a century of Taiwan's history.
Dalun Elementary is one of Zhongli's oldest schools, and its century of continuous renaming — from a Japanese colonial public school, through postwar retrocession and county reorganization, to Taoyuan's 2014 upgrade to a special municipality — tracks the entire arc of Taiwan's 20th-century political history in miniature, all visible in a single school's paperwork.
Find the school.
320-52 桃園市中壢區月眉里崇德路139號
No. 139, Chongde Rd., Yuemei Village, Zhongli District, Taoyuan City 320-52, Taiwan
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Last updated: July 2026 · Content adapted and condensed from the school's official Chinese-language website by the Taiwan Bilingual Hub team, not yet reviewed by the school. If you're from Dalun Elementary and would like to correct or expand this page, please contact us.