A river-terrace school rooted in sandy-soil farmland.
Xizhou Elementary began in 1955 as a branch campus of Houlong Elementary School, established to serve children in Xizhou Village — an alluvial river-terrace community along the Houlong River. It became an independent school in 1959, and has continued to serve this farming village ever since, part of a coastal Hakka/Hoklo-Hakka township famed for its sandy-soil agriculture.
溪洲國小於1955年（民國44年）以後龍國小分校形式創立，服務後龍溪沖積河階台地上的溪洲聚落學童。1959年（民國48年）獨立設校，持續服務這個沙質土壤農業聞名的沿海客家、福佬客鄉鎮至今。
What makes this school worth knowing.
🌊 Rooted on the Houlong River Terrace
後龍溪河階台地
The school serves Xizhou Village, an alluvial river-terrace community shaped by the Houlong River's seasonal floodplain — a distinctive geography within the township.
🍉 Heart of Watermelon and Peanut Country
西瓜花生之鄉
Houlong Township is known island-wide as Taiwan's watermelon and peanut growing region, and Xizhou's sandy alluvial soil sits right at the center of that farming tradition.
🏫 From Branch Campus to Independent School
從分校到獨立設校
Founded in 1955 as a branch of Houlong Elementary School, Xizhou gained independent status in 1959, reflecting the postwar growth of rural schooling in the area.
🌾 A Coastal Farming Community's School
沿海客家福佬客聚落
The school anchors a small coastal Hakka/Hoklo-Hakka farming village, continuing a long tradition of community-centered rural education in Houlong.
Taiwan's watermelon and peanut kingdom.
Xizhou village sits on the Houlong River floodplain in a township famed across Taiwan as the "watermelon and peanut kingdom" — its sandy coastal soil ideally suited to these crops. The area reflects the farming heritage of the coastal Hakka/Hoklo-Hakka community. See the Miaoli county page for more on the region.
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