Under the school district system, which had been established based on the bangumi school system, there were twenty-eight school districts in Kamigyoku and thirty-two school districts in Shimogyoku in 1893; the school district system remained intact operating under this form until it was abolished in 1941 by the Kokumin gakko rei (Act of elementary schools).
番組をルーツとする学区は、1893年（明治26年）に上京区28学区、下京区32学区となり、この形は1941年（昭和16年）の国民学校令により学区による小学校の運営が廃止されるまで存続した。