To date, it is the only school in the country that has received permission to change its name, and the only one with a name comprised of three Chinese characters-Ministry of Education policy mandates that all primary and secondary schools on Taiwan have names comprised of only two Chinese characters.
直到今天，太巴塱仍是全國唯一一所改名成功、並且以三個字為校名的學校（全國國中小學統一以兩個字命名），令其他各族、各部落既驚羨又不解。