The town of Focsani is the administrative
center of Vrancea county (judet). It lies in the South- East of Romania,
on the parallel of 46 degrees North latitude. It is between Moldova and
Muntenia provinces, in the Plain of the Inferior Siret River. It is also
in the east of the Milcov River, that had a branch crossing the centre
of the town bordering in the past two Romanian provinces.
In the town of Focsani there are
ten secondary schools, eight high schools, a Teacher’s Training School
and a Foreign languages College. Our secondary school is not far from centre
of the town, at No. 2- Tineretii Street. It was built in 1964, the first
year of activity being 1964- 1965, when a number of 883 pupils were registred
in 25 classes, grades one to eight (pupils between 7- 15 years old).
At present our school has 20 classrooms,
a library containing over 25,000 books, a computer lab having 9 computers
(Windows for workgroups and Linux), a workshop and a surgery. There are
59 classes- about 1700 pupils that study in three shifts.
Our school is famous for lots of
good results in different competitions the pupils take part in. There are
competitions in Romanian literature and grammar, Mathematics, Physics,
Chemistry, History and Physical Education. Our pupils have won prizes in
local and national competitions.
