What schools, kindergartens and high schools risk being combined. County School Inspectorates began to make proposals

Less than a month before the beginning of the new school year, on September 8, the school inspectorates from several counties sent to the Ministry of Education proposals for reorganization of the educational network for 2025-2026, according to AGERPRES. The decisions, taken together with the local authorities, aim to combine schools, high schools and kindergartens, against the background of the number of students and the application of Law no. 141/2025.

The school year 2025-2026 will start on September 8, according to the official calendar, while the unions announced that they will boycott the opening of the schools.

It is therefore less than a month to complete this process. The county school inspectorates in five counties have already submitted the proposals. At the same time, Hotnews asked the Minister of Education to the complete list of the proposed educational units for national level and the criteria on the basis of which these decisions were made. We will publish the data in full as soon as we receive them.

The full list of schools, high schools and kindergartens for the School Year 2025-2026, in 5 counties

Sibiu County

Sibiu Municipality:

• The Technical College “Cibinium” Sibiu merges by absorption with the “Henri Coandă” Sibiu Technological High Sibiu (becomes a structure)
• The Technological High School of Construction and Architecture “Carol I” Sibiu merges by absorption with the Gymnasium School no. 10 Sibiu (becomes structure)
• Gymnasium School no. 2 Sibiu merges by absorption with the kindergarten with extended program no. 16 Sibiu (becomes structure)
• Gymnasium School no. 23 Sibiu merges by absorption with the kindergarten with extended program no. 17 Sibiu (becomes a structure) and with the kindergarten with extended program no. 18 Sibiu (becomes structure)
• Gymnasium School no. 8 Sibiu merges by absorption with the kindergarten with extended program no. 37 Sibiu (becomes structure)
• The kindergarten with extended program no. 26 Sibiu merges by absorption with the kindergarten with extended program no. 19 Sibiu (becomes structure)
• The kindergarten with extended program no. 42 Sibiu merges by absorption with the kindergarten with extended program no. 5 Sibiu (becomes structure)

Mediaș Municipality

• Gymnasium School no. 7 Mediaș merges by absorption with the Gymnasium School no. 4 Mediaș (becomes structure)
• The “Cireșării” High School Mediaș merges by absorption with the “Constantin Ioan Motaș” High School (becomes structure)
• The kindergarten with extended program “The joy of children” Mediaș merges by absorption with the kindergarten with extended program no. 12 Mediaș (becomes structure)
• The kindergarten with extended program “Little Prince” Mediaș merges by absorption with the “Piticot” Mediaș program (becomes structure)
• The kindergarten with extended program “Pinocchio” Mediaș merges by absorption with the kindergarten with extended program “Dumbrava” Mediaș (becomes structure)

The city of Avrig

• The theoretical High School “Gheorghe Lazăr” Avrig merges by absorption with the Mârșa Technological High School (becomes a structure).

Cisnădie

• Gymnasium School no. 3 Cisnădie merges by absorption with the Gymnasium School no. 2 Cisnădie (becomes a structure).

The city of Agnita

• The “Georg Daniel Teusch” High School Agnita merges by absorption with the kindergarten with extended program (becomes a structure).

Rășinari commune

• The “Octavian Goga” High School Rășinari merges by absorption with the “Sava Popovici Barcianu” Rășinari (becomes structure).

Arad County

Arad Municipality

• The Gymnasium School in the Sânicolau Mic neighborhood becomes a structure of the theoretical High School “Adam Muller Guttenbrunn”
• The “Ilarion Felea” High School becomes a structure of the “Iosif Moldovan” High School
• The “Caius Iacob” High School is reorganized with the “Regina Maria” High School and the “Regina Maria” Technological High School will be set up
• “Henri Coandă” High School, “Aurel Vlaicu” High School and the College of Construction and Environmental Protection will form a new high school with a technological profile of applied sciences.

Localities in the county

• The Gymnasium School in the village of Sâmbăteni becomes a structure of the Gymnasium School in Păuliș
• The school in the fiscal village becomes a structure of the High School in Șagu
• A kindergarten in Chisineu-Criș will be shown to the high school in the city
• The school in Agrișu Mare becomes a structure of the High School in Târnova
• In the city of Curtici, a kindergarten will be aware of another kindergarten.

Hunedoara County

• The kindergarten with extended program (Brad) – reorganization
• “Horea, Cloșca and Crișan” High School (Brad) – reorganization
• Theoretical High School “Avram Iancu” (Brad) – reorganization (possible merging with the above)
• Gymnasium School no. 7 Petrosani becomes a structure of the “Hermes” Economic College.

Mureș County

Târgu Mureș

• “Traian Vuia” Technological High School becomes a structure of the “Avram Iancu” Technological High School
• Gymnasium School no. 7 Integrates the kindergarten with extended program “Manpel”.

SIGHIŞOARA

• The “Miron Neagu” High School becomes a structure of the Technological High School no. 1
• The “Radu Popa” High School becomes a structure of the “Joseph Hltrich” Theoretical High School
• The “Zaharia Boiu” High School becomes a structure of the National College “Mircea Eliade”.

Reghin

• The “Nicolae Gheorghe” High School becomes a structure of the “Florea Bogdan” High School

Târnăveni

• Gymnasium School no. 3 becomes a structure of the Technological High School in the locality.

Vrancea County

• “Alexandru Vlahuță” Gymnasium School Focșani – kindergarten with extended program no. 1 Focsani
• The “Adrian Păunescu” Gymnasium School Focșani – reorganization (the exact situation of the reorganization was not detailed in the public sources of ISJ Vrancea).

The measures come against the background of the protests of the three great trade union federations, which challenge the increase in the number of students in the classroom, the increase of the didactic norm, the reduction of the tariff to pay the time and the combination of small schools. Union leaders warn that if the government does not give up these changes, on September 8, the school will not start, being prepared a national boycott and a rally with over 30,000 participants in Bucharest.

The Ministry of Education argues that these changes aim to make expenses more efficient and adapt to demographic realities, but unions warn that they will lead to job loss, decrease the quality of education and to close schools in small communities.