Particularly from the end of the Taisho period to the early Showa period the quota of these temporary teacher training schools was more than half of the quota of higher normal schools (in 1926 the number of students in temporary teacher training schools was 1532, while 2719 in higher normal schools), playing a great role of supplying a lot of middle school teachers, etc..
ことに大正末から昭和初期にかけては、臨時教員養成所の定員は高等師範学校の定員の半分を超える規模で（1926年（大正15年）当時：臨時教員養成所生徒数1542名、高等師範学校生徒数2719名）、多数の中学校教員を供給するなど、大きな役割を果たした。