In order for schools to effectively carry out their education welfare role, which provides students with learning opportunities to cultivate their full potential overcoming any risk of educational alienation, schools are required to improve their education welfare capacity. For helping schools to find the better approach, this study inquired into the perspective of 'school as education welfare community'. Firstly, the study discussed on the issues of the relationship between school and education welfare and schools' education welfare capacity on the basis of preceding discourses on the concept, tasks, and the principles of education welfare. Secondly, the study reviewed the view of school as a community including the theory of community of practice(CoP) initiated by Wenger. Thirdly, integrating the two perspectives: school as a center for education welfare and school as a community, a new perspective of school as education welfare community was proposed and its meaning and elements were searched for. Lastly, conditions and requirements for constructing education welfare community in schools were discussed and suggested.