- has a school in the chosen year
- had a school in 2013–14, has none now
- no school left, kindergarten remains
- has a school, had none in 2013–14
A village with a school: what it means on the map
Each dot is a village on the Ministry of Education's official list that has, in the chosen year, at least one school structure: a primary or lower-secondary school, a lyceum or a college. Kindergartens and crèches do not count as schools.
In 2013–14 the list held 6,833 such villages. Filled dots are villages that have a school in the year shown.
Of 6,833 villages, 5,504 still have a school
By 2025–26, 1,329 villages on the starting list have no school on the Ministry's list. On the map they are the empty rings: 19.4% of the villages, almost one in five. Nearly all had a single school (1,320 of 1,329), so one structure gone means a village without a school.
For 39 of them the 2025–26 list has a school with the same village name in the same county, under another code. Their loss is unclear; without them, 1,290 remain (18.9%) with no school of the same name in the same county.
The total of villages with a school fell by 1,133 (−16.6%), not by 1,329, because 196 villages show a school only after 2013–14. For 169 of them the first appearance is in the 2014–15 or 2015–16 list, which may show that the starting list left them out; a first appearance cannot tell an omission from a newly opened school.
Where most of them went
By county, the share of villages left without a school runs from 43.5% in Hunedoara County, in south-west Transylvania (70 of 161 villages), to 4.0% in Brașov County. The first six counties, Hunedoara, Gorj, Sălaj, Alba, Vaslui and Bistrița-Năsăud, lose between 27% and 44% of their villages.
Counties where a commune (Romania's rural municipality, made of one or more villages) has more villages on average lose more: the correlation between the average number of villages per commune and the share of villages without a school is 0.65 (41 counties). It is a measured association, not an explanation.
What stays where the school was
In 433 of the 1,329 villages the kindergarten remains; in 896 the Ministry's list has no unit at all. On the map, a ring with a dot inside marks a surviving kindergarten.
A village without a school is not a village without children: the list does not say how many pupils each structure has. How many children attend school in each commune, against how many were born, is the subject of the page “Where do the children go to school?”.
Search for a village
Type the name of a village or of its commune. The card shows its schools in 2013–14 and 2025–26 and the years in which the village had a school.