In this bachelor’s thesis, the issues of district schools in the Republic of Croatia have been described. In order to explain these issues, in the first part of this paper the history of the Croatian school system has been described, the education model in the Republic of Croatia, and the Croatian school network have also been described. In the second part of the paper, parent schools and district schools have been defined, with special emphasis on district schools. Technical, financial, and organisational problems of these small schools have been researched, and presented in this paper. In this paper, the views of headmasters, teachers, and students of district schools have been presented. The advantages and disadvantages of district schools have been listed, and their importance in small communities in which they exist. The goal of the paper is to demonstrate that the problems, regardless of their quantity, are unimportant when they are compared with the advantages of these schools. They are essential to the preservation of small villages.