Yongfang Elementary School

Yongfang Elementary carries a long and layered history dating back to 1898 (Meiji 31), when it began as a "national language institute" (國語傳習所) during the Japanese colonial era, becoming a formal branch school in 1908. Over the following decades it was renamed and relocated several times — from Shanzaiding Branch School (1908) to Wenggongyuan Branch School (1915), independent Wenggongyuan Public School (1918), Daliao Public School (1921), and Daliao National School (1941) — before finally taking its current name, Yongfang National School, in 1947, matching its location in Yongfang Village. Though it no longer carries the "Daliao" name, Yongfang Elementary is, in fact, the institutional heir to 大寮公學校 — Daliao's very first school — a lineage distinct from the newer Daliao Elementary School, which was founded independently in 1965.

永芳國小校史悠久，可追溯至明治31年（1898年）設立的「國語傳習所」，1908年成為正式分校。此後歷經多次更名與遷移：1908年山仔頂分校、1915年翁公園分校、1918年獨立為翁公園公學校、1921年改為大寮公學校、1941年改稱大寮國民學校，直到1947年才依所在地永芳里定名為永芳國民學校。雖然校名不再帶有「大寮」二字，永芳國小實際上才是大寮區第一所學校——大寮公學校——的傳承者，這與民國54年（1965年）獨立創校、名稱較晚近的大寮國小是不同的脈絡。