Abstract EN:

The present study deals with two different subjects : the primary school and the territory. The primary school is presented as an institution produced by territories and that also organizes the territories around it. The medium mountains of the puy de dome have inherited an educational network created in accordance with an economical and social system that then drastically changed. The location of the network shows inequalities between the different territories, which can be underlined by a cartography of the different areas (first part of the study). The disorganization of the network has happened through a complex selection process , in which the demographic crisis is not the only factor (second part of the study). The different actors implicated in that process don't have the same perception of the crisis, but they all try to find some ways of restructuring (second part of the study). When considering the educational patrimony, one could imagine that the educational system has not evolved and this would be a wrong statement. In fact, the educational network has been modified in many ways. School life takes place in a highly mobile world now characterized by the commuting of many parents , pupils and primary teachers