The main distinguishing structural or demographic feature of rural environment which alters the nature of the economics of educational service provision is sparsity of population. The paper first examines the effect of population on the unit cost of provision of educational services in rural areas at the primary school level. Second, rural school…

The first part of this paper discusses two principal forms elaborated upon in previous literature for describing the relation between per pupil operating costs and school enrollment size. The first of these forms indicates that average per pupil costs decline up to a point as enrollment increases, reach a minimum, and then rise with further school…