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CHAPTER 4 SIZE AND FACILITIES ANDEQUIPMENT OF SCHOOLS
2 School Facilities and Equipment
(l) School Building Floor Space
a. Floor Space per Student at Each Educational Level


Programs for improvement and expansion of school buildings have been undertaken by their responsible establishing bodies, as regards the buildings of schools of compulsory education, the Law concerning the National Treasury's Share in Compulsory Education School Facilities' Expenses was enacted in 1958 (Low No. 81 of 1958), under which their improvement and expansion have been promoted under annual programs. As regards upper secondary school and kindergarten buildings, the national government has heretofore been subsidizing expansion and improvement of local upper secondary school facilities, reconstruction of dangerous upper secondary school buildings, construction and expansion of part-time upper secondary school buildings, and construction, expansion and reconstruction of kindergarten buildings and the like.

Change in the amount of floor space of elementary, lower secondary and upper secondary schools and kindergartens is shown in Chart 4-1-(1).

In local elementary schools, floor space per school increased on a national average, but enrollment per school also grew from 376 to 410, so that only minor increase was shown in floor space per pupil, from 5.6m- to 6.5m-. In local lower secondary schools, the floor space per pupil showed only a minor increase from 7.7m- to 8.3m- for the same reasons as in case of local elementary schools.

In upper secondary schools, floor space per student increased from 8.2m- to lO.0m- in local schools and from 7.1m- to 7.6m- in private schools.

As for kindergartens, floor spacp. per infant enrolled showed a slight gain in both local and private kindergartens.

Change in the amount of floor space of univerties and junior colleges (excluding attached hospitals and research institutes) is ihown in Chart 4-l-(2). Although floor space per university increased from .80,056m- in to 109,269m- in national universities and from 21,580m- to 32,927m- in private universities, enrollment per university also grew from 3,102 to 4,139 in national universities ana from 2,618 to 3,791 in private universities, so that floor space per student showed only a minor inaease from 25.8m- to 26.4m- in national universities and from 8.2m- to 8.7m- in private universities.

Floor space per junior college increased in both local and private junioricolleges. but while enrollment per junior college showed slight growth in local junior colleges, a phenomenal growth was shown in private junior colleges, so that floor space per student rose from 21.8m- to 26.6m- in local junior colleges; but dropped slightly from 11.9m- to l1.2m- in private junior colleges.

Chart 4-1. Relationship between School Building Floor space per stuaent ant Enrollment per School(1) Elementary, Lower Secondary and Upper Secondary Schools amtd Kindergartens(2) Universities and Junior Colleges


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