Elementary Schools

2018-2-11 | Education |

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Number of schools from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's school basic survey. Kochi has the greatest number of elementary schools per 100 thousand population with 38 schools, followed by Kagoshima (35), Shimane (35) and Tokushima (34). Kanagawa has the fewest, with 10 schools per 100 thousand population, which is less than one-third of Kochi.

Regionally, there are few elementary schools in the three major metropolitan areas and more in rural areas. To put it in another way, in urban areas, the population per school zone is great and in rural areas, the population per school zone is small. Although schools can be built efficiently in densely populated urban areas, in less densely populated rural areas, schools must be built in consideration of the children's commuting distance, resulting in the small number of children per school zone.

The correlative ranking shows that it is higly correlated with the number of people engaged in agriculture and the rate of light motor vehicles, indicating that there are many elementary schools in rural areas.

ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS

Source　School Basic Survey (2017)

Rank	Prefectures	Elementary Schools		Standard Score
Rank	Prefectures	Amount	per 100000 Population	Standard Score
Sort	Desc Asc	Desc Asc	Desc Asc	Desc Asc
1	Kochi	234校	32.46	74.19
2	Kagoshima	525校	32.07	73.47
3	Shimane	204校	29.57	68.75
4	Wakayama	260校	27.25	64.40
5	Tokushima	199校	26.53	63.04
6	Iwate	326校	25.71	61.49
7	Fukui	201校	25.70	61.48
8	Nagasaki	338校	24.73	59.64
9	Fukushima	454校	23.88	58.05
10	Oita	275校	23.71	57.72
11	Yamagata	258校	23.18	56.73
12	Tottori	128校	22.46	55.37
13	Yamaguchi	313校	22.45	55.36
14	Aomori	289校	22.35	55.17
15	Miyazaki	243校	22.17	54.83
16	Yamanashi	182校	21.93	54.37
17	Mie	379校	20.96	52.55
18	Ehime	288校	20.95	52.52
19	Niigata	474校	20.74	52.13
20	Okayama	396校	20.68	52.02
21	Kumamoto	361校	20.35	51.40
22	Saga	166校	20.05	50.83
23	Akita	202校	20.00	50.74
24	Hokkaido	1,061校	19.82	50.41
25	Okinawa	271校	18.83	48.55
26	Tochigi	369校	18.77	48.42
27	Gifu	371校	18.35	47.63
28	Ishikawa	211校	18.33	47.60
29	Toyama	193校	18.19	47.33
30	Nagano	372校	17.82	46.63
31	Ibaraki	505校	17.38	45.82
32	Hiroshima	488校	17.20	45.47
33	Kagawa	166校	17.08	45.24
34	Miyagi	395校	16.95	45.01
35	Shiga	226校	15.99	43.20
36	Gunma	312校	15.86	42.95
37	Nara	209校	15.41	42.11
38	Kyoto	395校	15.16	41.64
39	Fukuoka	748校	14.66	40.68
40	Hyogo	766校	13.88	39.21
41	Shizuoka	510校	13.83	39.12
42	Aichi	975校	12.99	37.54
43	Chiba	805校	12.91	37.39
44	Osaka	1,011校	11.45	34.64
45	Saitama	819校	11.24	34.24
46	Tokyo	1,335校	9.80	31.54
47	Kanagawa	887校	9.70	31.35
	Japan	20,095校	15.83