As to the number and type of schools in Miaoli County as of the end of the school year 2023, 18 (national and private) senior high schools (including vocational senior high schools), 30 junior high schools, and 110 elementary schools. The number of senior high school students was 12,972 with 1,322 faculty and staff members; the number of junior high school students was 10,917 with 1,351 faculty and staff members; the number of elementary school students was 29,197 with 3,312 faculty and staff members; and the number of kindergartens was 205 with 14,045 students and 2,215 faculty and staff members.
In terms of the data of public library books, the total number of collected volumes until 2022 was 1,441,632, including 1,414,217 volumes in Chinese language, 27,415 volumes in foreign languages, 1,346 kinds of journals, and 172,624 collected e-books; the number of people borrowing books was 236,949, and 1,446,888 volumes were borrowed.