From a sugar-town school to a junior high.
Yanshui Junior High's campus traces to a Japanese-era elementary school established by the Yanshui sugar refinery administration around 1908. Its first principal, Mori Sakae, served concurrently from the Yanshui public school and died in office the following year; the first graduating class in 1910 numbered just one student. After Taiwan's retrocession, the site was converted in August 1946 into "Tainan County Yanshui Junior Middle School," enrolling about 200 students across four classes. It became "Tainan County Yanshui Junior High School" in August 1968 under the nine-year-compulsory-education reform, and took its current name after Tainan's county-city merger in 2010.
鹽水國中的校地淵源，可追溯至明治41年（1908年，「民國前4年」）左右由鹽水製糖會社／行政體系設立的日治時期小學。首任校長森榮由鹽水公學校兼任，於翌年（明治42年3月19日，1909年）在任內過世；明治43年（1910年）第一屆畢業生僅1人。臺灣光復後，校地於民國35年（1946年）8月改制為「臺南縣立鹽水初級中學」，招收約200名學生、編為4班。民國57年（1968年）8月隨九年國教改制為「臺南縣立鹽水國民中學」，2010年臺南縣市合併後改為現名「臺南市立鹽水國民中學」。
What makes this school worth knowing.
🏭 Roots in the Sugar Industry
源自製糖產業
The campus originated as a Japanese-run elementary school tied to Yanshui's sugar-refining administration, becoming a junior high only after 1945.
🎓 A Graduating Class of One
首屆畢業生僅一人
The school's first documented graduating class, in 1910, numbered just a single student — a striking marker of how small the original school was.
🏫 A Postwar Reorganization
戰後改制初級中學
The school was reorganized into a junior middle school in 1946, enrolling roughly 200 students in four classes as Taiwan rebuilt its education system.
Yanshui, a faded river port.
The school's Japanese-era, sugar-industry-linked origins directly reflect Yanshui's history as one of Taiwan's most important Qing- and Japanese-era commercial and sugar-refining port towns — before the harbor silted up and rail lines bypassed the town. That layered past, still visible across Yanshui's older schools and streets, culminates each year in the district's famous Beehive Fireworks Festival and its historic old-town streetscape.
Find the school.
No. 63, Sanfu Rd., Yuegang Village, Yanshui District, Tainan City 737, Taiwan
737 台南市鹽水區月港里三福路63號
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