In order to enrich an environment of bringing up children, elementary schools and community must play appropriate roles and cooperate. The purpose of this study is to find out how their roles and relationships are and should be. The results are summarized as follows : 1) Cooperation with not only local organizations like neighborhood association and elderly peoples' association but also with organizations with particular purposes or functions like NPO and volunteer groups for elementary schools are needed. 2) Elementary schools' and community's actions are not based on their locations or length of its history. 3) First, elementary schools must construct good relationship with local residents and organizations so that they can make concrete requests, and then make their activities better.
