"Simion Lazăr" Elementary School Lunca Mureșului

The foundation basis for the school in Lunca Mureșului (the village named Cucerdea until 1925) was laid after the year 1700, when the first confessional school in Hungarian was founded functioning besides the Reformed Church, with two teachers. The students were studying in an old school rebuilt in 1877 and sold to the Romanian state in 1927.

After 1848 a Romanian school was founded with functioned in a one room building owned by the Orthodox Church, thus being the first confessional Romanian school.

After 1918, when Transylvania is united with Romania, the teacher Simion Lazăr, at that time a school reviser laid the foundation of the Romanian school in Lunca Mureșului, with four primary classes.

In 1932 the first nursery school in both Romanian and Hungarian was founded, and between 2007-2008 a new modern nursery school was built, following European standards, which has 3 groups of preschool children in the Romanian section and a group in the Hungarian section.

Between 1965-1967 the new school building was built with 13 classrooms, being rehabilitated in 2007-2008.

In 2008, as suggested by the school headmistress Sărmașiu Floarea, the school received the name of the founder of the Romanian school system in Lunca Mureșului and was named ”Simion Lazăr” Elementary School.

At present Simion Lazăr” Elementary School is an institution with juridical personality with two section: Romanian and Hungarian, having in subordination two structures: : G.P.N. Lunca Mureșului and Gura Arieșului, with a total of 134 Ss – primary education, 90 Ss – elementary education and 78 preschool Ss, that is a general total of 303 Ss

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