In order to further enrich education about the community at high schools, the aim of this report is to make it clear how high schools recognize their surrounding area. As the method of research, I sent questionnaires by mail to all national and public high schools in Japan. (The investigation period was performed from August, 2002 to September. The number of effective recoveries was 2292 votes, and the recovery rate was 55.6%) The results are as follows. 1) The range of present which has regarded the area as a school was not numerical, and the high school regarded as a region had reached to 60 percent. 2) By improving the school's level of understanding about their surrounding area, students come to understand their community better; and in addition to this, the degree of how favorably the people living in the surrounding area regard the school itself, also tends to increase.
