The MOE also created three exceptions to the closure recommendations: If a school is the only one in a rural township or an Aboriginal area, or if the route to a neighboring school passes through a danger zone, such as an area prone to landslides, it cannot be closed no matter how few students it has.
同時，教育部也列出 3 條排除指標：如果該鄉鎮只有一所小學，屬原住民地區學校，或是到鄰近學校必須經過土石流等危險區域者，不論學生人數多少，都不能裁廢。