Taoyuan sees rise in high school students from new immigrant families
2014/11/18 14:43:46
Taipei, Nov. 18 (CNA) One in every nine students in Taoyuan's elementary and junior high schools has a foreign-born parent, the county government reported Monday, saying that the figure is a sharp rise from the 2.1 percent recorded ten years ago.
The number of Taoyuan students under 15 years of age from new immigrant families has grown significantly over the past decade, from 5,488 in 2004 to 23,877 at the end of 2013, the local government said.
The trend is particularly noticeable since the overall number of elementary and junior high students in the county dropped from 266,050 to 219,051 over the 10-year period, the government said.
Some 86 percent of the foreign-born parents are from mainland China (37.1%), Vietnam (30.6 %) and Indonesia (18.4 %) , according to the county government.
More than half of the children from such families attend school in Zhongli City (18.6%), while the others go the school in Taoyuan City (15.1%), Pingzhen City (10.7 %) and Yangmei City (9.2 %), it said.
(By C.F. Bian and Flor Wang)
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The number of Taoyuan students under 15 years of age from new immigrant families has grown significantly over the past decade, from 5,488 in 2004 to 23,877 at the end of 2013, the local government said.
The trend is particularly noticeable since the overall number of elementary and junior high students in the county dropped from 266,050 to 219,051 over the 10-year period, the government said.
Some 86 percent of the foreign-born parents are from mainland China (37.1%), Vietnam (30.6 %) and Indonesia (18.4 %) , according to the county government.
More than half of the children from such families attend school in Zhongli City (18.6%), while the others go the school in Taoyuan City (15.1%), Pingzhen City (10.7 %) and Yangmei City (9.2 %), it said.
(By C.F. Bian and Flor Wang)
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