Focus and Scope of Journal of Elementary and Secondary School (JESS) is research, study and analysis related to early education, including:

- Competencies and Learning: The topic covers but not limited to socioemotional competence and learning competencies especially grade 1-9 for school.
- Cognitive psychology: The topic covers but not limited to psychology that studies mental processes such as attention, language use, memory, perception, problem-solving, creativity, and mindset.
-Sociology to school learning and teaching: The topic covers but not limited to the social integration of education, socialization, Social Placement, social and cultural innovation.
- Digitalization of Schools: but not limited to Learning Methods in the Industrial Revolution Era 4.0, metacognitive teaching method, cooperative teaching method, student center learning, assessment in learning and teaching, online learning, evaluation of distance learning, the effectivity of distance learning
- Curriculum review and program planning research: The topic covers but not limited to curriculum and instruction, curriculum development, curriculum evaluation, support element of an effective curriculum.
- School and community-based management. The topic covers but not limited to, school-based management, parent participation in school-based management, school-community relations, and community development (economic, social, and physical)

The issue also invites high-quality research on teaching and learning processes, school leadership and policy, instructional techniques and programs, assessment practices, and developments in learning technology, particularly in elementary and secondary school education. Reports of empirical research, including experiments, quasi-experiments, case studies, ethnographies, design research, and surveys; philosophical or historical analyses; integrated literature reviews and theoretical articles are all encouraged.