The special municipality and county（city）competent authorities shall determine the school district boundaries for public schools and establish the school districts, based on estimates of the number of school-aged children, transportation, community development, cultural features, environmental conditions, the administrative region, and the distribution of schools. The directions governing the establishment of schools and the determination of school districts and the directions governing school placements and admission shall be prescribed by each special municipality and county（city）competent authority.
To promote peer interactions between students, foster diverse forms of group learning, integrate educational resources effectively, create high-quality learning environments, balance the functions of urban and rural education, and ensure students’ right to learn, special municipality and county（city）competent authorities may arrange changes to or the closure of a public school. The regulations governing the criteria, procedure, and reviews for changes to or closure of public schools, the arrangements to be made for the students and staff, and other related matters shall be prescribed by the central competent authority. In accordance with the provisions of these regulations, the special municipality or county（city）competent authority shall formulate autonomous regulations governing changes or closure.
The word “changes” used in the preceding paragraph refers to a school changing its name, changing its institutional status, or merging with one or more other schools.
For the merger or closure of a public school referred to in Paragraph 2, the special municipality or county（city）competent authority shall draft plans for the utilization of the campus space, and education affairs related planning refarding financial support, and curriculum planning, and invite scholars and experts, parent representatives, representatives of teaching and other staff at the school, and local community figures and associated personnel to assess the project and arrange one or more public hearings. After being reviewed and approved by the education review committee of the special municipality or county（city）competent authority, a report of the merger or discontinuation shall be submitted to the central competent authority for future reference.
The merger or closure of indigenous key schools shall be conducted in accordance with the provisions of the Education Act for Indigenous Peoples.
A public school may be commissioned to the private sector to operate; the associated matters shall be handled in accordance with the provisions of the Act Governing the Commissioning of the Operation of Public Schools at Senior High School Level or Below to the Private Sector for Experimental Education.

Public universities that offer teacher training programs may establish affiliated experimental primary schools and junior high schools to conduct teaching internships, experiments, and research. The organization regulations shall be drafted by the public universities that offer teacher training programs and submitted to the respective competent authorities for the public universities that offer teacher training programs for approval.
Apart from their organization, personnel, staffing, and budget matters of the affiliated experimental primary schools and junior high schools referred to in the preceding paragraph, which shall be supervised by the public university that offers teacher training programs with which the schools are affiliated and by their competent authority, the matters provided for in this Act shall be supervised by the local special municipality or county（city）competent authority, in the same way as it supervises such matters regarding public schools within the same special municipality or county（city）.
The provisions of the preceding paragraph apply, mutatis mutandis, to primary schools and junior high schools that are affiliated with senior secondary schools affiliated with public universities that offer teacher education programs, and to primary schools and junior high schools affiliated with national senior secondary schools.

Changes to or closure of private schools and/or their campuses and branches shall be conducted in accordance with the Private School Law and related laws and regulations.