Some learned men set up a school to teach the children of the new residents, giving the town its name of Hsuehchia, meaning the "elite of the intelligentsia."
由於這些拓荒者，不乏原任文官的讀書人，他們知書達禮，在居有定所之後，更不忘教導後輩讀書習文，所以設了很多學堂。學堂之多、學風之盛，遠近聞名，也因此被命名為「學甲鎮」。