The management of the school was transferred from Kyoto Prefectural Government to Kyoto City, and the name of the school was changed to Kyoto-shi Bijutsu Gakko (Kyoto Municipal School of Arts) two years later in 1891.
-府から市に移管され、京都市画学校と改称、2年後の1891年に京都市美術学校に改称する。