Search 6,301 High School Listings Nationwide by Support for Non-Attendance and Developmental Disabilities: “High School Finder” Now Covers All 47 Prefectures

*Some schools are counted under both non-attendance and developmental disabilities, so the two numbers cannot be added together.

School listings by prefecture

As of November 7, 2026. Click a prefecture to open its page (Japanese).

*Correspondence high schools with campuses in several prefectures are counted in each prefecture.

Background

Recently, the organization has received more consultations about junior high school students who do not attend school or have developmental disabilities. What both groups have in common is the question of what to do about high school, and we kept hearing that finding a high school that offers accommodations is hard. These voices led us to build the site. On November 2, 2026, the organization also launched the “Consultation Guide for Non-Attendance and Development,” which lists support services by area nationwide.

How absences are treated in high school entrance exams, what accommodations are available during exams, and whether there are admission routes for students with experience of non-attendance all differ greatly from prefecture to prefecture. For example, some prefectures let applicants submit a “self-report” explaining their absences, some have removed the attendance section from the school report, and some have special admission routes for students with long-term absences. This information is spread across each prefecture’s admission guidelines and each school’s documents, and it is not easy for parents to find it one piece at a time.

Overview

Features

1. Search by what schools officially sayAfter choosing a prefecture, parents can start from large entry points such as “support for non-attendance” and “support for developmental disabilities,” and narrow down by area, full-time / part-time / correspondence, public / private, and type of support. Conditions that matter to these families, such as “mornings are hard (want to attend from the afternoon or evening),” “cannot attend every day,” and “a separate room when entering the classroom is hard,” can be selected directly.
2. Prefectural admission rules in one placeAdmission rules that differ by prefecture, such as treatment of absences, applying for testing accommodations, and schools that accept students with experience of non-attendance, are summarized at the top of each prefecture page and in its “Admissions and systems” section. National systems common to all prefectures are on the national page.
3. Official sources only, neutralOnly facts confirmed in official school, prefectural and national documents are listed. Commercial comparison sites were used only as leads, and information that could not be confirmed officially is not listed. No deviation scores or placement records are shown, and no school is recommended. Search results are not ordered by recommendation.
4. Multiple AI agents research in parallel, and a different AI cross-checksSchools were divided into groups of about nine (643 groups, excluding Tokyo). In each group, an AI agent read and organized the schools’ official documents, and, as a rule, a different AI from the one that did the research checked the results against the original sources. A program automatically checks that each quotation matches the original word for word. The 312 groups (about half) in which the first check found something to fix were revised and checked a second time, and a further pass looked for anything missed. The system can process up to 40 groups in parallel, and more than 2,000 tasks were run by AI agents. Four AIs were used: Claude, Codex (OpenAI), Gemini and Grok. Remaining issues and the final check before publication were handled by a coordinating AI under criteria set by the organization, and every school’s display was checked by opening the live pages in a real browser before publication. More than 36,000 excerpts of official documents were saved as evidence, and the site links to more than 12,900 unique official sources. The AI reasoning ran in the cloud; locally, a single server with 4 cores of a server CPU (Intel Xeon Gold 6252N) and 32 GB of memory handled coordination, fetching documents from official websites, and automatic checks that quotations match the original sources word for word (peak CPU usage of the whole machine during the work: 98.8%).
5. “Not written” does not mean “no support”A school with no description found in official documents may still offer support, and a description does not mean the support is extensive. The site states this clearly and advises parents to consult each school about whether support is actually available.

Next steps

In some prefectures, the admission sections and the details of self-reports will be checked again once the Reiwa 9 application guidelines are published. From April 2027, the whole site is scheduled to be updated for admission in April 2028 (Reiwa 10).

* The story of how the site was built is told in the President’s column, “6,301 Schools Nationwide: How We Built a High School Finder for Children Who Don’t Attend School or Have Developmental Disabilities.”

* The information is current as of the check date shown on each page. Admission rules and school support may change. Before applying, always confirm with the official documents of the school and the prefecture.