National Nanke International Experimental High School

Our school is a magnet school located in Southern Taiwan Science Park. It was founded to provide an excellent education for the children of the employees working in the Southern Taiwan Science Park and to establish an educational foundation for the development of the science park and the local community.

In 1997, Nanke Junior High School was established with Dr. Kuang Ming Huang as its director. Mr. Da Yong Guo and Mr. Kun Ho Fang became the first and second principals of the school. In 1998, Nanke Elementary School was founded with Mr. Chang Dao Lu as its director and principal. In April 2006, Mr. Chun Cheng Wang was designated as its director before the two schools were merged. In August 2006, after the high school and the elementary school merged, Dr. Hsu Chang Tai took over as the first principal of the newly formed school. Dr. Kuan Tsai Lin was the second principal of the school. The current school principal is Mr. Wen-Jyh Chyn.

The school has about 2,266 students and 209 staff, and provides 1-12 education, emphasizes the continuity in education from elementary to high school and integration of science park resources for innovative teaching and learning. The school has 12 classes in the senior high department, 21 classes in the junior high department, 42 classes in the elementary department, and 12 classes in the bilingual department.

The school is working on creative teaching methods to become a top international school that establishes a firm foundation in the humanities featuring a magnet program in science. In 2017, the school was awarded the highest honor in school accreditation by Taiwan Ministry of Education.

Senior High Department

Since the academic year of 2011-2012, the Senior High Department has started to recruit four classes of 30 students. All classrooms are purposely designed to be subject-based to create a more productive learning environment and promote effective instruction. The curriculum design is oriented in the development of students’ multiple intelligence, with the purpose of fostering students’ critical thinking skills and independent research abilities. Every year, students participate in both domestic and international scientific fairs and academic ability competitions, and their achievements have been more than extraordinary. In compliance with the National 1-12 Compulsory Education Law starting in 2014, the “Humanity and Science Class” was created as a featured program that admitted students through the Special Examination Admissions pathway. In the academic year of 2018-2019, the school has taken one step further to create another magnet program called “International Science and Mathematics Class”, which features an experiment-and-research-oriented curriculum to shape students into long lasting NNKIEHers of the science park. Fully utilizing the resources available in the Tainan Science Park, the school has not only extended the teaching beyond classroom but also nurtured a research atmosphere in campus by integrating academic research into the curriculum and inviting high-tech experts and scholars to give science seminars on campus. With its eyes on the future, NNKIEH is in the midst of creating a research-oriented school that meets the needs of our students in an ever-changing and competitive world.

Junior High Department

Junior High Department of the school provides the education for children of the parents working in STSP, colleges, or research institutions as well as local children from neighboring townships, Shanhua and Xinshi. Junior High Department provides a well-rounded education with emphasis on creativity and global perspective. Starting in 2013, the department has adopted the “multiple-intelligence development plan”, in which the school forms a team to designs an innovative curriculum for students to explore their interests and develop their full potential. In recent years, the school has implanted new curriculum standards, developed inquiry-based learning projects and hands-on activities in Science disciplinary area, and introduced AI robotics cross-disciplinary curriculum for students to develop problem solving skills through collaborative working. In addition, by way of providing various activities for the students to participate, such as performances and exhibitions, competitions, and vocational try-out programs, the school aims to broaden students' learning horizons and to equip students' with capabilities during the middle school years so they will be prepared before they enter the next stage of the 12-year national education.