The town has one senior high school and three vocational schools. Before, there was only one junior high school, which made promotion a foregone conclusion. This prospect led to overcrowding, and five years ago, another junior high school was built to ward off this population crisis.
鎮中「最高學府」是省立潮州高中和其他三所高職；國中原來只有一所，升學率不錯，又引得鄰近鄉鎮學子「聞風而來」，因而擁擠不堪，屏東縣遂在四、五年前在此地成立另一所國中，化解「人口危機」。