This study analyzed the social regularity that acted on the government's school opening policy in the early stages of the COVID-19 outbreak. The press release related to the opening of school in the first half of 2020 by the Ministry of Education was analyzed in consideration of the social context at the time, such as the COVID-19 epidemic. The characteristics of the school opening policy in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 can be summarized into three categories: 'opening of school online', 'higher grades priority in school opening', and 'simultaneous opening of schools nationwide'. The ‘opening of school online’ was a decision made after three delays in the opening of elementary and secondary schools, and the policy was to start operating the school without students attending school. The 'higher grades priority in school opening' was the direction applied to the online and offline school opening. 'Simultaneous opening of schools nationwide' refers to the fact that the school opening policy at the time was a nationwide policy that did not take into account the regional situation of the spread of COVID-19. In that these characteristics of the school opening policy were the result of considering the preparation for college entrance exams of high school seniors first, the social regularity that acted on the school opening policy can be called 'university admission centrality'. However, it is necessary to seriously examine whether the application of this social regularity is in line with the original purpose of education to help students grow.