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The District of Lampung Timur is one kabupaten in the Province of Lampung that has created in 1999, just before the implementation of decentralization era in Indonesia. The district has been a split from its “mother district”, the District of Lampung Tengah, as to have more efficient and effective services as well as more equal development among its region. This paper will analyze the availability of educational services, involving elementary schools, junior and senior high schools among its regions. Using the time serial statistical data gathered from the district-s monographs, and also the standard set by the National Standard, this paper will compare the availability of the services in two ways comparison: inter-time and inter-regional comparisons and the combination of both of them. Furthermore by using an inter-time comparison in fifteen years analysis after the regional splitting or the creation of the district, this paper could be also regarded a long-time evaluation of the creation of the district in regional development in the decentralization era in Indonesia, from the point of view of the development of educational services. The result will show whether the case of regional splintering could improve the equality of the level of service in regional development in Indonesia