Among the higher schools under the old system whose number amounted to 39 throughout Japan in the end, the First through the Eighth Higher Schools (under the old system), which were established during the Meiji period, sent their graduates to the political and business worlds from early on.
最終的に全国39あった旧制高校のなかでも、明治期に創設された第一高等学校から第八高等学校(旧制)までは、早期から政財界に卒業生をおくりこんだ。