A school that began in a village hall.
Xuedong Elementary was established in August 1967 as a branch class of Nanxing Elementary School, initially holding classes in a borrowed public building known as a "公厝" (village ancestral/public hall) — literally starting inside a community hall before any dedicated schoolhouse existed. It became a fully independent school in 1978. The school's origin as a single borrowed-hall branch class reflects the modest, dispersed hamlet settlement pattern of 1960s Annan District, a common pattern for several Annan elementary schools that started as branches of older "mother schools" before growing large enough to become independent.
學東國小於1967年(民國56年)8月,以南興國小分班形式創立,最初借用村落的「公厝」作為第一間教室,可說是名符其實從村落公共空間起步。1978年(民國67年)正式獨立設校。學東國小的起點——借用單一公厝空間的分班——反映出1960年代安南區聚落分散、規模不大的墾殖型態,也是安南多所國小共有的發展模式:先作為「母校」的分校,人口成長後才獨立設校。
What makes this school worth knowing.
🏠 Born Inside a Village Hall
創校於村落公厝
The school's first classroom was literally a borrowed village ancestral hall, before any dedicated schoolhouse was built.
🌱 A Branch That Grew Independent
由分校成長為獨立學校
Established in 1967 as a branch of Nanxing Elementary, the school became fully independent in 1978 as Annan's population grew.
🗺️ A Pattern Shared Across Annan
安南多校共有的發展模式
Xuedong's branch-to-independent path mirrors several other Annan elementary schools that grew out of older "mother schools" in the postwar decades.
A hamlet-era beginning.
Its origin as a single borrowed-hall branch class reflects the modest, dispersed hamlet settlement pattern of 1960s Annan District, before large-scale suburban development filled in the area's fish ponds and farmland. See the Tainan county page for more on the region.
Find the school.
No. 589, Sec. 6, Gongxue Rd., Annan District, Tainan City 709, Taiwan
709臺南市安南區公學路六段589號
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