Introduction: The school of life as an important and global thing in the new age and as a learning organization, is the place for the growth of talents and capabilities of all human factors (principals, teachers, students and their parents). This school becomes a translation of a meaningful and uplifting life in such a way that no distinction can be made between learning and living.   The aim of this study was to identify the factors affecting the realization of the school of life in elementary school the under the heading of the antecedents of the school of life with Meta Synthesis method.

Methods: This study is applied in terms of purpose. The statistical population includes all previous researches in the field of school of life between 2000-2021. In order to collect the data of the current research, a total of ten databases were searched for domestic (Magiran, Irandoc, Elmnet, Noormags and Civilica) and foreign (EBSCO, Springer, Science Direct, ERIC and Google Scholar) publications. In this regard, keywords related to the purpose of the research were searched and the most relevant studies were selected as a statistical sample using the purposeful sampling method. 136 articles were evaluated in the field of School of Life and finally, 48 articles were selected and their codes and dimensions were extracted by their content analyzing.

Results: The research findings were identified and categorized into 3 categories, 9 concepts and 106 codes, which the three main categories being quality of Human resources, Factors within the organization and School architecture. Finally, after the research steps, a pattern of  the antecedents of  the school of life was presented.

Conclusion: The results of the current research and the model presented in this research can be a suitable road map for the effective establishment of the school of life.