During its first term, the school drew more than 30 students from all over central Taiwan, ranging in age from an old man in his eighties to a six-year-old in the first grade. Chiang is willing to teach all and sundry.
新和興補習班的第一步旨在推廣歌仔戲，第一期卅多位學員來自中部各縣市，上自八十歲老翁、下至剛進一年級的六歲小朋友，江清柳全部「有教無類」，每週六、日晚上開課三個鐘頭，每期上課六個月通通免費。