A single school for a small Atayal community.
The school's history stretches back to 1908, when Japanese colonial authorities established the "Wulai Aboriginal Children's Education Institute" as part of a network of institutes — known as banchi kyōikusho — set up across Taiwan's mountain regions to provide basic schooling to Indigenous communities. The school was renamed Wulai National School in 1946, after the end of Japanese rule. A separate junior high division, established in 1968, was merged with the elementary school in 1975 to form a single combined institution spanning grades 1 through 9. Today it is a very small school — roughly six classes and fewer than 100 students — whose student body is overwhelmingly Atayal (Tayal), serving as the sole K-9 school for the whole of Wulai District.
學校歷史可追溯至1908年(明治41年),日治政府設立「烏來蕃童教育所」,是當時台灣山地原住民教育機構網絡(蕃地教育所)的一環,為原住民部落孩童提供基礎教育。1946年(民國35年),日治結束後,學校更名為烏來國民學校。1968年成立的國中部,於1975年併入國小部,成為橫跨一至九年級的單一國民中小學。目前學校規模非常小——約6班、不到100名學生——學生組成以泰雅族為絕大多數,是烏來區境內唯一一所國中小。
What makes this school worth knowing.
🏫 A Century-Plus of Local Schooling
逾百年辦學歷史
Tracing back to 1908, when it began as a Japanese colonial-era institute for educating Indigenous children, this school has provided continuous schooling to Wulai's community for more than a century.
🔗 One School Across Nine Grades
一至九年級合併辦學
A separate junior high division, added in 1968, merged with the elementary school in 1975 to create a single K-9 institution — a practical response to Wulai's small, dispersed mountain population.
🏔️ The Only School for the District
烏來唯一國中小
With roughly six classes and under 100 students, this is a genuinely small school — and the only combined elementary-junior-high in all of Wulai District.
🪶 An Atayal Community's School
泰雅族學生為主
The student body is overwhelmingly Atayal (Tayal), and the school anchors the same Indigenous community that today sustains Wulai's hot-spring resort and Wulai Waterfall tourism economy.
Wulai's Atayal community.
Wulai District is home to Taiwan's Atayal (Tayal) Indigenous people, whose communities have lived in this mountainous river valley for generations and today also sustain the district's hot-spring resort area and the Wulai Waterfall, among the island's best-known tourist destinations. As the sole K-9 school serving this small, mostly-Atayal township, the school's own history — running from a Japanese colonial-era education institute through post-war reorganization to today's combined campus — is inseparable from the broader story of Indigenous education policy in Taiwan's mountain regions. See the New Taipei county page for more on the region.
Find the school.
No. 5, Laka Rd., Wulai Village, Wulai District, New Taipei City, Taiwan
新北市烏來區烏來里啦卡路5號
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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 Wulai Combined Elementary & Junior High School and would like to correct or expand this page, please contact us.