The closing and integration of public elementary and/or junior high schools have often caused, with the merger of municipalities. In such cases, the local governments, however, have not had enough consideration on local communities. The present investigation surveyed the past and present situations of 111 schools that were closed for the past 30 years in Ibaraki prefecture and analyzed the relation of their location. Moreover, continuous relation between the process of closing/integration and the process of re-use of those school facilities was investigated in the two cases which detail documents in the processes remained, especially considering the effects of the closing schools on the declining rural communities