National Experimental High School At Hsinchu Science Park (NEHS; ), situated near the Hsinchu Science Park in Taiwan, is a public, coeducational school (pre-primary-12). Founded in August 1983, the school was proposed by the founder of the Science Park Kwoh-Ting Li. NEHS is administered by the Ministry of Education, National Science Council and the Science Park Administration. With the exception of the rigorous "Advanced Math and Science Class" of the Senior High School department, NEHS only admits children of employees of private enterprises in the Science Park, government organizations, the Industrial Technology Research Institute, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, and National Tsing Hua University. In 2009, the school adjusted qualification and number of enrollment in response to the national decline of birth rate and to late-2000s financial crisis (which impacts the employment status of parents working in the Science Park). International Bilingual School at Hsinchu Science Park (IBSH), formerly known as the Bilingual Department, is affiliated with NEHS and provides a rigorous American-style curriculum supplemented with a mandatory Mandarin Chinese language program in addition to other national education requirements dictated by the Taiwanese government. IBSH is located on the same campus as NEHS. Location The school is in a residential district of "Phase I" of Hsinchu Science Park, on its eastern border with "Phase III." The school is about 5 km southeast from Hsinchu Station, the center of downtown Hsinchu City. The school is close to the Hsinchu city's eastern border with Zhudong, Hsinchu county. It is built on a westward slope. Lake Placid (also called "Artificial Lake", a pond built by the Science Park) is in the northwest of the school, next to its field and track ground. In the west of the school is the Jinshan Temple, first built by Chinese settlers in 1853, renovated in 1889, preserved as a class three historic site in 1986, and renovated in 1991. The temple is the center of a broader historic region called "Jinshan Mian" including today's Science Park. Jinshan Mian (, also written as "Kin-San-Mian") was named and developed by Hakka and Hokkien settler organization in the late 18th century. Before the development, this region was a mountainous buffer between Chinese immigrant territory in the west and aboriginal territory in the east. Further west is the residential district of the Science Park, where many students live. In the southwest and the south is the industrial district of the