A branch school that grew into its own.
Yuanzhong Elementary was established around the 1952–53 academic year as a branch of Youchang Elementary School serving the Yuanzhonggang area, part of the Kaohsiung city government's broader push to bring compulsory education within reach of every neighborhood. It later became an independent school in its own right.
援中國小創立於約民國41學年度（1952/1953年），最初為右昌國小在援中港地區設立的分校，為高雄市政府徹底推行義務教育而設立，後獨立設校。
What makes this school worth knowing.
🏫 Born as a Branch School
前身為分校
Yuanzhong began life as a branch campus of Youchang Elementary, established to bring schooling within walking distance of the Yuanzhonggang community.
📚 Part of a Citywide Push
徹底推行義務教育
The school's founding was part of the Kaohsiung city government's broader effort in the early 1950s to make compulsory education universally accessible.
🌊 A Name From a Vanished Port
校名見證消逝的港口
"Yuanzhonggang" (援中港) is the Japanese-era simplified name for the Qing-era "Wandan Port" or "Wanzhong Port," once a river-mouth harbor before land reclamation changed the coastline.
A name that outlived its harbor.
The school's name preserves "Yuanzhonggang" (援中港), the Japanese-era simplified form of the pre-Qing names "萬丹港" and "灣中港" — once the estuary mouth of the Caotan Embankment (草潭埤). The name is a quiet record of how Nanzih's coastal waterways and settlements have shifted over centuries. See the Kaohsiung county page for more.
Find the school.
No. 567, Daxue W. Rd., Zhonghe Village, Nanzih District, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
高雄市楠梓區中和里大學西路567號
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