The private school established branch schools in each town under the prefectures, which were the gun army school that Kunimoto SHINOHATA supervised, the bombardment army that Shinpachi MURATA supervised, and the Army Cadet school (Shoten school) that Murata supervised.
私学校は篠原国幹が監督する銃隊学校、村田新八が監督する砲隊学校、村田が監督を兼任した幼年学校（章典学校）があり、県下の各郷ごとに分校が設けられた。