Built on the memory of a vanished pond.
Yongchun Senior High School opened in 1968 as "Taipei Municipal Yongchun Junior High School," moving to its present site — the former "Yongchun Slope" (永春陂), a Qing-dynasty irrigation reservoir in what was then rural Songshan — in 1976. It converted to senior-high-only status in 1994 and took its current name in 1996.
永春高中創立於1968年（民國57年），初名「臺北市立永春國民中學」，1976年遷至現址——清代灌溉埤塘「永春陂」的舊址，當時仍屬松山鄉間地帶。1994年（民國83年）轉型為純高中部，1996年（民國85年）正式定名為現今校名。
What makes this school worth knowing.
🇫🇷 Compulsory French
全台唯一必修法文
Uniquely among Taiwan's public high schools, French is a compulsory (not elective) first-year subject worth a full credit — a rare requirement nationwide.
🔭 A Rooftop Observatory
校內天文台
The school's "Yinghua Building" houses one of the few astronomical observatories among Taiwan's senior high schools, supporting its math/science gifted program.
⛰️ A Mountain Orientation Tradition
象山迎新登頂
New students climb Elephant Mountain at orientation and receive a "summit certificate" from the principal — a rite of passage tying the school to its neighborhood landmark.
🎵 An Alma Mater by a Famous Songwriter
小蟲譜寫校歌
The school's alma mater was composed in 1997 by celebrated songwriter-producer Xiao Chong, after a chance meeting with a school staff member.
A campus named for a vanished pond.
The campus occupies the former "Yongchun Slope" (永春陂), a Qing-era irrigation reservoir in what was then rural Songshan. The school's very name and location record a vanished agrarian landscape — a pond that once irrigated nearby rice fields — that predates Xinyi's transformation into Taipei's modern financial core anchored by Taipei 101. See the Taipei city page for more on the region.
Find the school.
No. 654, Songshan Road, Xinyi District, Taipei City 110, Taiwan
臺北市信義區松山路654號
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