Wanrong Junior High School

Here's a genuinely interesting quirk: despite carrying the name "Wanrong" (萬榮), this junior high is not physically located in Wanrong Township at all — it sits in Changqiao Village, Fenglin Township, a full township over. The name comes from the school's original mission: when it was founded in 1968, it served students from Wanrong Township's own Wanrong and Mingli villages alongside Fenglin's Changqiao and Senrong villages, so the founders named it for the more distant community it was reaching out to serve. Enrollment peaked at around 400 students across 9 classes in 1970, but has since shrunk considerably — to about 34 students in 3 classes by 2024 — with roughly 90% of today's students Indigenous, predominantly Truku.

這裡有個相當有趣的巧合：儘管校名為「萬榮」，這所國中其實並不座落於萬榮鄉，而是位於鳳林鎮長橋里——足足隔了一個鄉鎮。校名的由來與其創校初衷有關：民國57年（1968年）創校時，除了服務鳳林鎮的長橋、森榮兩里之外，也招收萬榮鄉萬榮、明利兩村的學生，創辦人因此以這個服務範圍較遠的鄉鎮為校命名。全盛時期（1970年）學生人數曾達約400人、9個班級，但如今已大幅縮減，2024年時僅剩約34名學生、3個班級，其中約九成為原住民學生，以太魯閣族為主。