Page 27 - An Overview of Penghu

VII Education-School Education

Number of preschool students (1930)

Total number of preschool students Attendance rate
Type
Male Female Total Male Female Total
Japanese 171 155 326 100 100 100
Taiwanese 5,645 5,163 10,808 50.50 7.83 30.12

Number of elementary and public schools, faculty members

and students (end of May 1931 until now)
Number of faculty members Number of students
Number Number
Type of of Gender Director of Vice Director of Substitute Total
schools classes Student Affairs Student Affairs teachers J T Total
J T J T J T J T
Elementary 1 7 Male 6 --- 1 --- --- --- 7 --- 181 7 188
school Female 2 --- --- --- --- --- 2 --- 162 1 163
Public Male 11 34 --- 4 3 2 24 40 8 2,268 2,276
school 10 59 Female 4 2 --- --- 1 --- 5 2 2 449 451
Branch of Male 4 8 --- 2 2 1 6 11 --- 770 770
public school 7 20 Female 1 2 --- --- 1 1 2 3 --- 54 54
Male 31 42 1 6 5 3 37 51 189 3,045 3,234
Total 18 86
Female 7 4 --- --- 2 1 9 5 164 504 667
J=Japanese T=Taiwanese

The faculty members and Japanese students
at Wangan Public School.
Starting from the left: Director Ichikawa of Student
Affairs, Principal Takayama; starting from the right: Dayu Public School and Principal
Director Chang of Student Affairs and Vice Director Ono Tomisaburo.
Wu of Students Affairs. The Japanese students look Dayu is the least developed isle among all the
quite lonely because they were minorities among their islands/isles of Penghu. Principal Ono had to
Taiwanese counterparts at the school. convince parents who had no idea about
education to send their offspring to school. He
even had to go around the villages and persuade
parents to let their children go to school. From
his action, we can see Principal Ono's
dedication to education.

Xiaochijiao Public School
Principal Shiraki Yoshio

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