A school named after a tree that became brooms.
Long before there was a school here, this village was known for one thing: kanglang trees (槺榔). Their leaves, dried and bound, became the brooms that swept the temples, courtyards, and threshing floors of the western Taichung plain. The village took its name from the tree; eventually, so did the school.
In August 1982, Dashiou Elementary opened a branch here to serve the children of Kanglang and the neighbouring villages. Nine years and twelve classes later, on August 1, 1991, the branch became its own school: KangLang Elementary. Today we are a quiet 14-class village school, walking distance from the coast, surrounded by rice fields and the temples our great-grandparents once swept with brooms cut from these very trees.
還沒有這所學校之前，這個村庄就因為一種樹聞名——槺榔樹。它的葉子曬乾、紮起來，就是過去清水這一帶廟宇、三合院、曬穀場用來掃地的掃帚。村落以樹得名，學校後來也是。
民國 71 年（1982）8 月，大秀國小在這裡設立分校，服務槺榔里與鄰近村庄的孩子。九年後、十二個班級之後，民國 80 年（1991）8 月 1 日，槺榔分校獨立設校為「槺榔國民小學」。今天的我們是一所安靜的十四班小校，從校門走到海邊不遠，被稻田與廟宇環繞——而那些廟宇，曾經是阿祖那輩用同一棵槺榔樹做的掃帚掃乾淨的。
