Taipei First Girls' High School

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Taipei First Girls High School

Established	1904
School type	Public
Location	No. 165, Sec. 1, Chungching S. Rd., Zhongzheng Dist., Taipei, Taiwan 10045, R.O.C.
Enrollment
Campus	Urban
School colors	Green
Website	(zh) (en)

Entrance to the school.

Taipei First Girls' High School(臺北市立第一女子高級中學) is a Taiwanese girls high school located in Zhongzheng District within Taipei City.

1 Overview
2 Features
3 Famous alumni
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Overview

The school was founded in 1904 during Japan's colonial period and in 1967 it was renamed due to Taipei City becoming a municipality. With its history streching back over one hundred years, the school has had over 60,000 students. Currently, the school operates seventy eight classes and has over 3,000 students.

The school's campus measures roughly 26,000 sq. metres, with a total of six main buildings - the oldest being Gaung-Fu, a three storey structure built by the Taiwanese government in 1933. Other buildings include Ming-De (completed 1954) and Zhong-Zheng Building (completed 1977).

[edit] Features

Over the past few decades the school has endevoured to modernize its facilities. In 1971 a sports and assembly hall was constructed. In 1993 a new building was completed; Zhi-Chan. This five-storey building has a large observatory located on the roof with several telescopes therein. Within the Zhong-Zheng building are IT facilities together with abundant reading materials, audio-visual headsets and Internet access.

The school also possesses an auditorium, conference rooms, a heated indoor swimming pool and a subterranean parking lot.