National Hsinchu Senior High School is a high school in East District, Hsinchu City, Taiwan. Student enrollment averages around 2200. Although traditionally an all-boy institution, National Hsinchu Senior High School started admitting females into the music program in 1998.
History
HCHS, originally called Shinchiku Prefectural Shinchiku High School, was established on 1 April 1922. After World War II in 1945, it was renamed Taiwan Provincial Hsinchu High School. In July 1968, after compulsory education was extended to nine years, it was renamed Taiwan Provincial Hsinchu Senior High School, and on 1 February 2000, renamed National Hsinchu Senior High School. After the restoration in 1945, HCHS was a six-year high school, with a three-year Junior and a three-year Senior High division. However, the junior high division was suspended in 1957. In 1987, HCHS was directed to set up a math and science gifted class, 1998 a music-gifted class, and in 2004 a language and literature gifted class.
Buildings and facilities
HCHS covers an area of 10 hectares, well equipped with a students' activity center, gym, swimming pool, athletic field and sport courts. Besides, in buildings for teaching, such as Building of Science, Building of Arts and Crafts, and Resource Building, there are Science Lab, Home Economics Classroom, Automatized Lab for Life and Technology program, Art Classroom and Music Classroom, Computer Classroom and Multimedia Language Classroom. On the campus are male and female dormitories to house students living far away.
Achievement
Every year, students participate in international science exhibitions and are constant winners in international Olympic Games for science. The musical clubs such as the choir, the brass band, the harmonica club and the Chinese music club have a long history. They attend national musical contests and win many prizes every year.
Achievement of the Provincial Choir Competition
From 1960 to 1968, HCHS got every year's championship of the provincial choir competition.
1970, HCHS got the championship again.
1971, for HCHS had got 10 years' championship until 1970, the Ministry of Education claimed that HCHS would perform for pre-competition example, but wouldn't be allowed to participate in the competition.
Leo Ou-fan Lee: Member of Academia Sinica, 2002; Guggenheim Fellow; Chinese commentator and author.
Kopin Liu: Member of Academia Sinica, 2004; Presidential Science Prize; Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, 2002–Present; Distinguished Research Chair Professor, Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, 2010–Present.
Upon the award of Nobel Prize in 1986, Yuan T. Lee replicated the Nobel Prize medal and donated it to the school, due to his appreciation its influence on him.
Like many other historic high schools, the library holds Japanese collections that date back to the Japanese period.
