Joy school currently has approximately 10,000 students enrolled in various classes throughout Taiwan and China. Students generally range in age from 3 to 16 years of age, and would attend one of the three major programs offered by Joy.

Joy Pre-schools – Students range in age from 3-7 years old and attend classes on a full day basis. Classes start at 9:00am and finish at 3:30pm. There is an extended lunch and nap-time between 11:30am and 1:30pm, which is customary here in Taiwan. Teachers are welcome to join students during snack and lunch times, or bring along their own food. A weekly teaching schedule is provided by the school outlining topic, math, writing, science, art and P.E. times, as well as snack and play times. Each class is handled through the co-operation of a foreign teacher and a Chinese teaching assistant, and class sizes range from 5 to 15 students. Teachers have their own homeroom and teach the same class all day, each day. Chinese assistants are available to care for the needs of the students, however they generally have very little direct input into the conducting of classes. Students are discouraged from speaking Chinese at school, and this practice, coupled with their young ages, ensures that they become conversant in the English language in as little as a couple of months. Teaching materials, guides, props and workbooks are all provided by the school, as are specialist materials required for art and science projects etc. Students go on a two to three hour outing once a week, to places such as local parks, museums and other places of interest. Each semester students also go on a full day outing to places such as an amusement park or National place of interest. Transportation is provided by the school, and teachers accompany their own class of students.

American School (JAS) – This program has been developed by Joy school specifically for students who have graduated from the Joy Pre-schools and have moved on to elementary school. First and second grade elementary school students in Taiwan spend only half a day at Chinese school, so these students return to Joy School for a three hour English class in the early afternoon of each day. Third, fourth, fifth and sixth grade students have two hours of class everyday. With conversation and listening skills well developed through their years within the pre-school system, these students have English fluency levels approximately equivalent to those of first and second grade students in English speaking countries. Once again a program including topic, writing and reading books has been fully developed by Joy School for use in these classes, and acts as an extension to the materials already taught to these children during their preschool years. Specific training, workshops and teaching guides are on offer to ensure that teachers are able to most effectively teach these students. Chinese assistants are available to care for the needs of the students, however they generally have very little direct input into the conducting of classes.

Joy Regular School – This program is very different to the two programs described above, and it comprises the majority of students at Joy school. Aimed at elementary and junior high school students, classes are held twice a week for two hours each time. Foreign and Chinese co-teachers share equal responsibility for teaching the required materials within this program, each teaching one hour of each class. Students take a placement test upon enrollment at Joy school ensuring that they are placed in classes with students at similar levels, and written and oral tests at the completion of each level ensure that the level of students in each class remains equal. A special 'Starter Series' has been adapted for younger students at the Regular Joy Schools, and is aimed at first and second grade elementary school students who have not studied English before. Students who have previously studied English or who have completed the Starter Series, then move on to the 12 level 'Joy English' text-book series. Each level takes approximately three months for students to complete, and each unit has a combination of vocabulary, grammar point and a reader or dialogue for practice. On completion of this twelve level series, students graduate to a three level series titled 'Super Joy'. These texts expand upon the language taught at lower levels, with an emphasis on using this knowledge to make more cohesive sentences and paragraphs, both orally and literally. Upon graduation from the 'Super Joy' series, students may join 'Advanced Level Classes'. The advanced texts are equivalent in many ways to the texts used by adult English learners, and the aim is to add more current content to the student's English knowledge.

The majority of regular school classes are conducted between the hours of 4:30 and 9:30pm on weekday afternoons. As the students in the advanced classes are often Junior High School students, these classes are generally held once a week on Saturdays, and are three hours in duration. During winter and summer vacations, morning classes are also available.

In addition to the above programs, Joy School holds English camps during vacation periods. Students are given the opportunity of joining these camps both here in Taiwan as well as in destinations overseas. These camps have a component of English class time combined with travel and play time.

More information regarding the programs described above can be found here.