National Wen-Hua Senior High School

The Taichung Municipal Wen-Hua Senior High School is one of the most prestigious senior high schools of Taiwan located in Taichung City. It was founded on July 1, 1989. WHSH has been accredited by the Ministry of Education as the First Tier High School.[1]

Taichung Municipal Wen-Hua Senior High School
臺中市立文華高級中等學校
The Emblem of WHSH
Address
No.240, Ningsia Rd., Situn Dist.

Taichung City

40750

Taiwan
Coordinates24°10′13″N 120°39′36″E
Information
TypePublic
MottoChinese: 淳恕敏善
Established1 July 1989 (1989-07-01)
Principal何富財 Fucai, He
Faculty186 (2010)
GradesGrade 10 to 12
Number of students2,407 (2011) (2015)
Campus size36,722 m²
Campus typeUrban
Color(s)        
Team nameWHSH Baseball Team
WHSH Dance Team
WHSH Basketball Team
NewspaperHuaYu Gazette 華榆
Websitewww.whsh.tc.edu.tw
The Main Gate of WHSH
Taichung Municipal Wen-Hua Senior High School
Traditional Chinese臺中市立文華高級中學

Introduction

Location

The school is close to the National Museum of Natural Science, Taichung City Government, and Taichung International Gateway District. An under construction Taichung Metro station called WHSH Station（文華高中站）is next to the school.

Reputation

Most of graduate students choose to go further in higher education. With above average scores in College Entrance Examination, students graduated from WHSH usually have a high admission rate to the first-tier universities. Some of the students also choose to study in the United States and Europe.

Wen-Hua Senior High School is one of the remarkable high schools national wide. It is also a well-known member of the Four Provincial Schools （四省中）in Taichung area. From 2015, WHSH and other four famous high schools in Taichung have established the Taichung Big 5 affiliation.

The school provides excellent STEM courses, humanities courses, and Dancing courses in national standard.[2][3] The Club of Chinese Music, Ya Feng Guoyue（雅風國樂社）is one of the top high school musical performance groups in Taiwan.

History

WHSH is one of the youngest schools in Taiwan and it is also the only school of the "Four Schools" established after the World War II period.

  • WHSH has established in 1989 to fulfill the strong need of intermediate education because of the explosive population growth in great Taichung area. It was named Taiwan Provincial Taichung Wen-Hua Senior High School as it was first founded.
  • In 2000, due to the "Government Reformation," the school was managed by the central government under Ministry of Education, and renamed National Wen-Hua Senior High School.

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See also

References
  1. "Accreditation Result under Primary and Junior High School Reformation Project: National Taichung Wen-Hua Senior High School" (in Chinese). Taipei: Ministry of Education. 2011-04-28. Archived from the original on 2016-04-21.
  2. XunMing, Wang (2014-10-15). "Featured Schools: National Taichung Wen-Hua Senior High School - Excellence and Leading" (PDF) (in Chinese). Taipei: Ministry of Education.
  3. "Fujian Province Seek to Establish Six Cross-Strait Centers of Dancing Art in Three Years" (in Chinese). Beijing: Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council. 2015-03-16.
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