Reform elementary school of Reghin

Collection

Holding institution (official language):: Direcţia Judeţeană Mureș a Arhivelor Naţionale

Reference number:: Școala primară confesională reformată Reghin; fond nr. 1222; inventar nr. 1476

Scope and content:: There are a total of 78 items in the collection, all but two of them are from the 20th century. The oldest item dates to 1893 and is a registration book. Beginning in 1909 the records are, for the most part, comprehensive and without gaps and include class registers, grade books, and curriculum registers. Sometime after 1900 the girls were taught separately from the boys. The vast majority of the material is in Hungarian, though some of the registers in the post-Trianon period are in Hungarian and Romanian. Record books generally include information on the pupil's birth date and place, parents, their occupations, mother tongue, residence, nationality and religion.

Administrative/biographical history:: This school appears to have been attended primarily by Hungarians and Jews. The Jewish proportion of the students may have reached up to 20-25% at certain periods. The school opened in 1860 but did not become well-established, with funds necessary to construct its own building and employ sufficient teaching staff, until the end of the 19th century. The school was probably closed or renamed/repurposed during the communist period.