Marius Comper.

EDUCATION · THE SCHOOL NETWORK IN OFFICIAL LISTS

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.

School years 2013–2014 → 2025–2026

GEOCODED VILLAGES

A changing list, county by county

13 years
Villages counted with a school in the reconstructed series, index with the first year set to 100Two lines show national and county village indexes across thirteen reconstructed school series.4060801001201402013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
RomaniaHunedoara CountyIndex · 2013–14 = 100
The series counts geocoded villages with a school. When a structure appears in the years before and after a single-year gap, its presence is filled in. These reconstructed counts do not measure pupils or daily operation.
VILLAGES IN COUNTY94
ROMANIA · GEOCODED VILLAGES5,700
CHANGE SINCE FIRST YEAR−41.6%

The reconstructed 2025-26 series counts 94 villages with a school structure in Hunedoara County.

These are independent counts of geocoded villages. For 2013–14 and 2014–15, the source project’s analysis table has one more record because it includes a row without coordinates or a county in the point file. The chart counts geocoded villages only, using the same rule in every county and year.

01 / WHAT THE LIST SHOWS

The list counts structures, not children

Romania’s Ministry of Education publishes an approved school network each year. The reconstructed series counts geocoded villages: if a structure appears in the lists before and after a single missing year, we count it as present in that year too. It does not measure enrolment or verify daily operation.

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02 / WHAT THE LIST SHOWS

The change is not the same in every county

Change the county and compare the two reconstructed series on the same index: the first year is 100. This shows local change against the reconstructed national count without treating a large county as equivalent to a small one.

Romanian villages left without a school, 2013–2026 Where do the children go to school?

03 / WHAT THE LIST SHOWS

School also means calendars, assessments and what comes next

The village counts use a reconstructed series with one-year gaps filled. The projects below answer other school questions: when the year ends, how admissions work, which university programmes are listed and what assessments compare.

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04 / WHAT THE LIST SHOWS

Books and schools have their own history

Today’s school networks did not appear all at once. Follow Spiru Haret’s reforms, primers that reached Romanian homes and centres of learning that worked in other eras and languages.

How Romania learned to read: Haret's school, 1899–1930 The book every Romanian touched Neamț Monastery: what did the monks copy — ten dated books in 143 years? Moscopole: the city that traded, taught and translated

For each village, the yearly mask is “1” if at least one school structure appears, “2” if only a kindergarten appears, and “0” if neither appears. One-year gaps in a structure’s series are bridged before village totals are counted.

Education · 14 projects

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Projects about access to school, institution and structure lists, assessment, admissions, higher education and the history of education.

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About the collection

The counts use the geocoded places.json file from “Trei din patru”, with one row per village tracked. The yearly mask marks at least one primary, lower-secondary or upper-secondary structure as 1; 2 means kindergarten only, and 0 means neither school nor kindergarten appears. If a structure is listed in both years around a single-year gap, the reconstructed series counts it as present in the missing year too. Totals count villages in this reconstructed series, not buildings, pupils or schools verified as open. A village without a listed structure may be served by a nearby school. For the first two years, the source analysis table has one more record than the geocoded file; both inputs remain pinned and the difference is explained beside the chart.

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Sources

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    The ministry files are administrative lists of structures and legal-personality units; inclusion does not verify daily opening or pupil numbers. The 2025–26 file is licensed CC BY 4.0.

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    Independent count of geocoded villages, computed from rows with annual mask value “1”. For 2013–14 and 2014–15, the analysis table totals one record more because they include a row without coordinates or a county, absent from places.json.