Owing to generalization of design competitions and BTL since 2000s, fresh ideas and concepts had never seen before tried positively. As a result, school design methods in Korea has been more developing. Therefore, to analyze ideas that have been proposed in competitions is important to help developments, for the layout patterns of elementary school designs in the future. Based on these context this study is the most important purpose for analyzing and classifying layout patterns in prizewinners of elementary school design competitions As a result of the analysis, the layout patterns are classified into 8 types : 1) ㄱ type, 2) ㄷ type, 3) ㅁ type, 4) F type, 5) P type, 6) 工 type, 7) ㅌ type, 8) free type.