Abstract: The boarding schools, as the most important activity areas of the boarders, whether appropriate or not, are directly related to the students’ health and development, body and mind. Compared with students of other age groups, young boarders have more noticeable problems. A survey of rural boarding primary schools in Chuxiong discovers that the young boarding students of the current rural primary schools do not adapt to the schools and their problems include: widespread passive adaptation, lack of school belonging, learning output unmatched to input and prominent learning problems. Solutions include: larger investment to improve conditions of the schools, better management, frequent communication with parents, encouraging the students to establish friendship with other students, and advocating students' self-education effort. In short, joint efforts are necessary to help the young boarding students adapt to their boarding schools better.

Key words: township boarding primary school, young boarder, school adaptation