The local household administration authority shall compile a register of the six-year-old school-age children and submit it to the respective special municipality or county（city）competent authority by school district. The respective city, township, and district offices shall notify the citizens listed in the register to enroll in the designated public primary school.
The special municipality or county（city）competent authority shall give public primary school students due to graduate in the current year placements to attend a public junior high school in their school district.

The school district boundaries for private schools shall be determined by the special municipality or county（city）competent authority taking into consideration distinctive local characteristics.
For student admissions to private schools, the schools shall formulate enrollment regulations based on the principles of equal educational opportunity and the sound development of primary and junior high school education and submit the enrollment regulations to the special municipality or county（city）competent authority for approval.

The regulations governing the eligibility criteria and method for enrolling children of government personnel working overseas, overseas Chinese students, foreign students, and stateless students in schools and other related matters shall be prescribed by the central competent authority.
To recruit foreign professionals and outstanding experts in the field of science and technology from outside Taiwan, the government has established special programs for their children at public schools. The determination of the associated school district boundaries, class sizes and staffing, courses, textbook selection, class grouping, normal teaching, and learning assessment may be conducted without applying Paragraph 1 of Article 10, Paragraph 1 of Article 23, Article 34, Article 35, Article 39, and Article 40. The regulations governing the setting up of such programs, admission eligibility criteria and methods, fees, and other related matters shall be prescribed by the central competent authority.

After students have enrolled, schools shall accurately record students’ school enrolment status and data in written or electronic form for permanent archiving and protect data security and use such data in accordance with the law.
If a school undergoes a merger with another school or closure, the school records of its students shall then be managed by the school newly formed by the merger, or by a school designated by the associated special municipality or county（city）competent authority.
Autonomous regulations governing the management of the student records referred to in the preceding two paragraphs shall be prescribed by the special municipality or county（city）competent authority.