Spatial Analysis of The Distribution of Special Education Schools in Baghdad

(Al-Karkh first directorate of education as a model)

Abstract

Special education schools are important schools, as they are concerned with a special segment of society, the segment of people with special needs, in order to evaluate, educate and integrate them into society. Although there are no private schools for this segment, special classes have been opened for them in some primary schools, and it is assumed that there are (6) students or more in order to open the class and continue the study in it until the fourth stage and then merge with the students. The study included the first Karkh Education Directorate and the number of Schools in the study area (66) schools  Divided into ten districts.

   Some quantitative methods have been relied upon in the application of geographic information systems, as the study of the standard distance showed that these schools focus around their position in the neighborhoods of the study area, and the allocation areas technology showed that there is a discrepancy in the sizes of the areas covered by the schools, there are small and large areas of influence, while The nearest neighbor technique clarified that the schools adopt different patterns in the neighborhoods of the study area, in which the random, divergent and regular convergence. The research concluded with a set of conclusions and suggestions, the most prominent of which was the redistribution and restructuring of some classes and their transfer to other schools to achieve an ideal and balanced distribution in the study region.