# Education: how many villages are counted with a school?

Follow the reconstructed official school-network series from 2013–14 to 2025–26. Choose a Romanian county and school year to see how many geocoded villages are counted with at least one school structure after one-year gaps are bridged.

https://mariuscomper.uk/en/education/

- [Neamț Monastery: what did the monks copy — ten dated books in 143 years?](https://mariuscomper.uk/manastirea-neamt/en/): Ten dated copies made at Neamț between 1436 and 1579, then Paisie’s school: what was copied and when, each book with its year and its proof.
- [Five students on the train to Beijing: the first Romanians to learn Chinese, from 1950 to today](https://mariuscomper.uk/cinci-studenti-la-beijing/en/): In November 1950 five Romanian school-leavers spent fifteen nights on trains from Bucharest to Beijing. None of them knew Chinese. One became an ambassador, one a trade counsellor, one a historian of China, one a translator of Chinese literature. The journey on a map and the five lives step by step, each step with its source. In Romanian, English and Chinese.
- [School uniforms: who’s right?](https://mariuscomper.uk/uniforma-scolara/en/): The 15 arguments from both sides of Romania's compulsory-uniform debate. Say what you think of each, then see what studies from the US, France, Kenya and England show. Plus what the Senate voted, what it would cost you and the uniform's history since 1552. In Romanian and English.
- [The book every Romanian touched](https://mariuscomper.uk/abecedarul/en/): 41 years, one book on every desk — and three books before it.
- [How many school days are left?](https://mariuscomper.uk/cate-zile-de-scoala-mai-sunt/en/): Real course days left until the break, by county and class track, with an instant answer.
- [PISA 2025: every country's report card](https://mariuscomper.uk/lumea-digitala/en/): PISA 2025, across eight themes — performance, socio-economic equity, gender, AI and digital, engagement, climate, family, environment — for 91 countries and economies. Romania has one of the OECD's largest socio-economic gaps (122 points), despite strong family support and above-average AI-literacy teaching. Pick any country and see its own dashboard.
- [Moscopole: the city that traded, taught and translated](https://mariuscomper.uk/moscopole/en/): Moscopole (Moschopolis, today Voskopoja) was a major Aromanian-speaking commercial and educational centre in the 18th-century Ottoman Balkans. Trade, schooling and languages: the story of the city and its links with Romania.
- [Where do the children go to school?](https://mariuscomper.uk/unde-merg-copiii/en/): For every 100 children born in 2015–2019, Romania has 85 primary-school pupils in 2025: 91 in towns, 79 in communes. Find your locality and see where children gather or disappear between places.
- [Study Medicine in Romania: The International MD Atlas (Verified Shortlist)](https://mariuscomper.uk/studiaza-medicina/en/): Compare tuition and admission conditions at four Romanian medical schools with English-language programmes. The guide explains how to check accreditation, diploma recognition and the steps Chinese graduates may need for licensing in China.
- [How Romania learned to read: Haret's school, 1899–1930](https://mariuscomper.uk/haret/en/): From 22 to 56 literates in 100, county by county, across three censuses. Haret's laws, the village school and the Abecedar exam.
- [More Women Graduate. From What?](https://mariuscomper.uk/mai-multe-absolvente/en/): In 2024, women were the majority of tertiary graduates in the EU. Change the denominator to see where the difference between fields sits.
- [In the school register, the unknown takes four out of five rows](https://mariuscomper.uk/in-ceata/en/): A verifiable reading of Romania's official register of school buildings and seismic-risk classes. What is classified, what is not, and what changed between 2023 and 2026.
- [Romanian villages left without a school, 2013–2026](https://mariuscomper.uk/trei-din-patru/en/): A map of every village that had a school in 2013–14, year by year, searchable by village name.
- [Four point nine five](https://mariuscomper.uk/nota-cinci/en/): At Romania's 2024 baccalaureate, the most frequently awarded grade was exactly 5.00. The step below, 4.95, was given almost eight times less often. Search any grade and see what happened at second marking.

## Sources

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- [[object Object]](https://mariuscomper.uk/trei-din-patru/)