Elementary Schools

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.