抄録
The school choice policy of Osaka City introduced in 2014 has gotten attention as a large-sized implementation case of school choice in a government-designated city. While the demographical return into the urban areas is increasing the gap of the number of pupils among the wards, this article examined the influence of such regional contexts on the rates of utilization of school choice. The analysis shows how the tendency of pupil decrease of each ward influences the utilization of school choice. Especially, the wards with have a steep decline in the
number of pupils could have many “acceptance spaces” for school choice, and so this situation activated the utilization of choice. On the other hand, in the ward with a large increase in the number of pupils in the urban central area, the school choice was not functioning effectively because they couldnʼt prepare enough “acceptance spaces.” Also, the wards with a large pupil decrease are the socioeconomically disadvantaged
ones. So, the active utilization of school choice in such wards implies that the school choice can impose large negative influence on the management of the schools in these wards.
