Spatial analysis of the distribution of basic education schools in the city of Ubari for the academic year 2022-2023

Abstract

This research seeks to study the spatial  distribution of basic education schools in the city  of Ubari for the academic year 2022-2023 AD and its development since the beginning of the application of formal education in the study area  and to know the main factors affecting this distribution, as well as to shed light on the planning standards for the distribution of these schools and to know the extent to which they conform to planning standards at the national level, and the research relied on the descriptive analytical approach in collecting, presenting and analyzing the data and information contained in the content of this research, and the systems program was also used Geographic information (arcmap10.8) for the purpose of spatial analysis of the distribution of basic education schools in the study area, such as knowing the general direction of this distribution and its concentration, as well as knowing the pattern of this  distribution by extracting the nearest neighbor and the standard distance, in addition to knowing the scope of service of these schools within the city and knowing the areas outside the scope of this service; The results also showed that the most important factors affecting the distribution of basic education schools in the city of Ubari and their concentration in a limited area within the city is the government's policy imposed in preventing the construction of schools outside the city's urban plan, in an attempt to encourage residents to move and live within the planned area in the city so that the distribution of all social and economic services is easier for the population within the city, as well as not to establish basic education schools. The study also found that the number of schools in the city conforms to the planning standards in terms of the population criterion, but it was found that there is a deficiency in the criterion of the distance traveled by the student to reach the school for some residential neighborhoods, as this distance far exceeded what is in the national planning standards, and the results showed that there are many areas in the city outside the scope of serving basic education schools.