A modern school, a historic building.
Xibei Elementary School was established as an independent school in 1961, after splitting off from Nanzhou Elementary School's original catchment area. Yet part of its campus is far older: a building dating to around 1923, originally constructed as "Xizhou Ordinary Elementary School" during the Japanese colonial era. That building closed and served as a Japanese, and later Republic of China, military garrison in the 1940s before the site reopened as a school. Registered as a Pingtung County historic building since 2009, it is now used as an office, and the campus still holds a Shinto shrine base site and a "Southern Expedition Standby Memorial" among its historic relics.
溪北國小於民國50年（1961年）自南州國小原學區分出，獨立設校。然而校內一棟建築物的歷史遠比建校年份久遠：約建於大正12年（1923年）日治時期，原名「溪州尋常小學校」。該校舍曾一度關閉，於1940年代作為日軍、後為國軍的駐紮營地使用，之後才重新做為學校使用。此建築自民國98年（2009年）起登錄為屏東縣定歷史建築，現作為辦公室使用，校內至今仍保有神社基座遺址與「征南待機紀念碑」等歷史遺跡。
What makes this school worth knowing.
🏛️ A Registered Historic Building
縣定歷史建築
The campus's circa-1923 Japanese-era building has been a registered Pingtung County historic building since 2009 and now serves as a school office.
⛩️ Layers of Wartime History
神社與軍營遺址
The grounds preserve a Shinto shrine base site and a "Southern Expedition Standby Memorial," relics from the site's time as a colonial-era and wartime garrison.
🏫 From Sugar-Refinery School to Public School
從糖廠子弟學校到公立小學
Originally built for Japanese settlers' children, then repurposed for sugar-refinery employees' families, the site now serves Nanzhou Township's local children.
Sugar-cane roots, watermelon present.
Nanzhou Township's history and economy grew up around sugar-cane cultivation and the era of the local sugar refinery — the very industry that first brought a school to this site over a century ago. Today the fields nearby are more likely to be growing watermelon, the township's leading modern crop. See the Pingtung county page for more on the region.
Find the school.
Nanzhou Township, Pingtung County 926, Taiwan
926屏東縣南州鄉
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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 Xibei Elementary School and would like to correct or expand this page, please contact us.