The School
A century of Tamkang,
from Oxford College on
The school's motto is "Love and Service", and it carries the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan's tradition of "burning yet not consumed".
1872
On 9 March, Rev. George Leslie Mackay landed at Tamsui from the British steamer Hailoong at three in the afternoon, and chose Tamsui as the base for his mission in Taiwan.
1882
On 26 July, Oxford College was completed and named in thanks to the people of Oxford County, Ontario. It opened on 14 September with eighteen students: the birthplace of modern education in Taiwan.
1884
On 3 March, the Tamsui Girls' School opened — the first school for girls in Taiwan, and the beginning of the school's girls' section.
1914
On 9 March the Japanese government granted the permit to found the school, the same date on which Mackay had landed at Tamsui 42 years earlier, and since then the school's anniversary. Tamsui Middle School opened at Oxford College on 1 April with George William Mackay as its first principal.
1925
The new school building, the Octagonal Tower, was completed; students moved in on 1 June and have studied there since.
1956
On 6 October the boys' and girls' schools formally merged as Tamkang Middle School, with Chen Su-ti as the first principal of the merged school.
1980
In May the school took its present name, Tamkang Senior High School.
2018
The Humanities and Social Sciences class opened: with care as the outlook, rooted locally, looking outward.
The campus
Brick arcades, old trees, a running track.
School History Gallery
Dr Mackay, the school's symbols, five chapters of history and an archive of photographs. In Chinese.