According to Ministry of Education statistics, more than 40,000 children of foreign and mainland Chinese spouses attended Taiwanese primary schools during the 2004 school year. That is 2.2 % of the primary-school population. Around 5,500 children with a foreign parent attended junior high school, accounting for 0.6 % of students.
據教育部統計，民國 93 學年度全國就讀國小的外籍及大陸配偶子女有 4 萬餘人，佔國小人數 2.2 %，就讀國中的約 5,500 人，佔總人數 0.6 %。