التوزيع الجغرافي للمدارس الابتدائية "للبنين" في عنيزة باستخدام نظم المعلومات الجغرافية

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Objectives : This study aims to shed light on the historical development of primary schools for boys in Unaizah, know ing its current geographical distribution, and measure and analyze the spatial distribution of boys' primary schools.

Method : This study is mainly based on the analytical quan titative approach, the spatial analytical method, in addition to the historical method, and the descriptive method.

It used the data of the Ministry, Education Department in Unaizah, and a number of statistical methods were used such as concentra tion guide, nearest neighbor, pearson correlation coefficient and the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Technology program, besides SPSS to find out how strong the relation ships between variables are.

Results : The study revealed that there are 11 elementary schools for boys were built before the year 1390 AH, and that 24% of primary schools share one educational premise with other educational stages.

The study also revealed that the distribution pattern of schools is completely random at a rate of 1.1 according to Neighbor hood Connection Scale, and that there are 56% of the total primary schools that overlap in their residential range.

71% of the primary schools for boys are centralized in the middle of Unayzah.

Conclusion : The study referred to the necessity of admission geographic information systems technology in educational planning and distribution of primary schools for boys in order to determine the appropriate places within res idential neighborhoods, pointing to the importance of study ing the urban ranges attitudes and population growth rates to provide better educational services, and taking into account the planning standards for services in order to achieve good education results in a healthy and educational environment.