Editing Kobe (section)

== Education ==
[[File:Kobe-Univ-Rokkodai-Honkan.jpg|thumb|200px|[[Kobe University]] main building]]
{{Main|Education in Kobe}}
The city of Kobe directly administers 169 elementary and 81 middle schools, with enrollments of approximately 80,200 and 36,000 students, respectively.<ref name="Kobe schools">[http://www.city.kobe.jp/cityoffice/57/kyouikutyousa/index.html City of Kobe] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927011449/http://www.city.kobe.jp/cityoffice/57/kyouikutyousa/index.html |date=September 27, 2007 }} – "Number of municipal schools and students" (Japanese). Retrieved July 2, 2007.</ref> If the city's four private elementary schools and fourteen private middle schools are included, these figures jump to a total 82,000 elementary school students and 42,300 junior high students enrolled for the 2006 school year.<ref name="pocket statistics" /><ref>[http://web.pref.hyogo.jp/pa15/pa15_000000005.html Hyogo Prefectural Government] – "Private elementary schools" (Japanese). Retrieved July 2, 2007.</ref><ref>[http://web.pref.hyogo.jp/pa15/pa15_000000004.html Hyogo Prefectural Government] – "Private middle schools" (Japanese). Retrieved July 2, 2007.</ref>

Kobe also directly controls six of the city's twenty-five full-time public high schools including [[Kobe Municipal Fukiai High School|Fukiai High School]] and Rokkō Island High School. The remainder are administered by the Hyogo Prefectural Board of Education.<ref name="Kobe schools"/><ref>[http://www.city.kobe.lg.jp/child/college/highschool/ City of Kobe] – "Municipal high school" (Japanese). Retrieved March 2, 2016.</ref> In addition, twenty-five high schools are run privately within the city.<ref>[http://web.pref.hyogo.jp/pa15/pa15_000000003.html Hyogo Prefectural Government] – "Private high schools" (Japanese). Retrieved July 2, 2007.</ref> The total enrollment for high schools in 2006 was 43,400.<ref name="pocket statistics" />

Kobe is home to eighteen public and private universities, including [[Kobe University]], [[Kobe Institute of Computing]] and [[Konan University]], and eight [[junior colleges]]. Students enrolled for 2006 reached 67,000 and 4,100, respectively.<ref name="pocket statistics" /> Kobe is also home to 17 Japanese language schools for international students, including the international training group Lexis Japan.

[[International school]]s serve both long-term foreign residents and expatriates living in Kobe and the Kansai region. The schools offer instruction in English, [[Deutsche Schule Kobe/European School|German]], [[Kobe Chinese School|Chinese]], and [[Chōsen gakkō|Korean]]. There are three English-language international schools: [[Canadian Academy]], [[Marist Brothers International School]], and St. Michael's International School.