# 学校教育法 / School Education Act — 第五十七条 (Article 57) - Law: 学校教育法 (School Education Act), 昭和二十二年法律第二十六号 - English title "School Education Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第五十七条 (Article 57) — address `art-57` - Text in force since: 2026-06-17 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-57 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-57 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第五十七条 art-57 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-57 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-57 **第一項** 高等学校に入学することのできる者は、中学校若しくはこれに準ずる学校若しくは義務教育学校を卒業した者若しくは中等教育学校の前期課程を修了した者又は文部科学大臣の定めるところにより、これと同等以上の学力があると認められた者とする。 art-57/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-57/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-57/par-1 A person eligible to enter high school is to be a person who has graduated from junior high school or an equivalent school or compulsory education school, or a person who has completed the lower courses of secondary education school, or a person who is deemed to have the equivalent or greater scholastic ability as provided for by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 学校教育法 第五十八条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-58/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-58/par-3 - 学校教育法 第八十二条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-82/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-82/par-1 - 学校教育法 第百十八条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-118/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-118/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 学校教育法 — the text in force from 2026-06-17 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/322AC0000000026/20260617_508AC0000000037), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — School Education Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4743/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - This site's parser, version 210 — 学校教育法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19