Jhudong Elementary School

Jhudong Elementary describes itself, on its own official website, as the first elementary school established in Zhudong — founded in 1897, during the early years of Japanese colonial rule, when the town was still known as Shuqilin (until a 1920 renaming). Over more than a century, several other Zhudong public elementary schools — including Zhongshan, Datong, Erzhong, and Shakeng — were spun off from Jhudong Elementary as branch schools before becoming independent, making it the direct educational root of the township's school system. The school today runs an "English and Hakka Garden" program that reflects the bilingual, multicultural character of the region.

根據竹東國小官方網站自述，該校是竹東鎮設立的第一所國小，創立於明治30年（1897年），當時竹東仍稱「樹杞林」，直到民國9年（1920年）才更名。逾百年來，竹東鎮內多所公立國小——包括中山、大同、二重、沙坑等——皆是由竹東國小分校網絡衍生而出，之後陸續獨立設校，使竹東國小成為全鎮學校體系的直接源頭。學校目前設有「英語客家園地」課程，反映了當地雙語、多元文化的特色。