Taichung Municipal Taichung First Senior High School


The Taichung Municipal Taichung First Senior High School is a senior high school in North District, Taichung, Taiwan. TCFSH was the first high school founded by Taiwanese to educate their youngsters during the colonial days under Taiwan under Japanese rule.

Overview

The admission of Taichung First Senior High School is extremely competitive. Less than top 1% of scorers on the Basic Competence Test for Junior High School Students receive admission. A portion of graduates go on to attend university in Taiwan as well as worldwide, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, and the University of California, Berkeley. For many international science and math competitions such as the International Mathematics Olympiad, the International Geography Olympiad, the International Physics Olympiad, the International Biology Olympiad, the Intel Science Fair, the International Chemistry Olympiad, the International Earth Science Olympiad, &c., students from Taichung First Senior High are regularly chosen to represent Taiwan.

History

The National Taichung First High School was founded by elite members of gentry in Taichung in 1915, including Lin Lie-tang, Lin Hsien-tang, Lin Hsiung-chen, Tsai Lien-fang and Koo Hsien-jung. Fought against the unfair education policy of Japanese colonial government, they established the Taichung Middle School to provide better education to the young Taiwanese who did not have the opportunity to attend middle schools which were reserved for the Japanese children exclusively.

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