«Innecesarios a todas luces» : el desmantellament de la xarxa d'instituts en la postguerra = «Obviously unnecessary» : the dismantling of state high school net after Spanish Civil War

This article studies the policy of radical reduction of the estate high schools net that
Francoism conducted in the postwar period. It introduces the growth of this net from
the late twenties and it concludes from archives sources that republican governments
doubled the number of estate high schools. Contrarily, the closure of schools
constituted a central axis of francoist secondary education policy. In the postwar period
half of the former estate high schools were closed, especially those that were located
outside of the province capitals. The article researches the criteria used to conduct this
dismantlement and, finally, it analyzes from different parameters the resulting net.