In 1988 the school was able to make free use of the new plot for a second sports field to be shared with neighboring Fenglin Primary School, which used up only a small proportion of the reclaimed land, and was still hundreds of meters from the newly-formed coastline.
到了民國七十七年，鳳林國中不但保全原有的「領土」，又在校園牆外向市政府免費借得一塊大綠地，做為第二操場，和毗鄰的鳳林國小共同使用，而所使用面積不過佔整個新生地的一小部分，操場距新形成的海岸還好幾百公尺呢！