The purpose of this paper is to show the subjects of retaining elementary schools by revealing the cause of them closing down.
The results are summarized as follows:
1) The background of closing down schools today does not only declining birthrate, but deficit financing of local government and legal assist of combining schools.
2) Parents and residents are different in thoughts on closing down their schools to the administration, and so they should share their thoughts.
3) Closing schools and converting to branch schools are the effective way to retain schools located among the mountains or isolated islands.
