State high schools without any candidate passed the BAC in the last 4 years. List by county, according to data from the Ministry of Education

In 2023, candidates from 29 state high schools did not pass the national Baccalaureate exam, according to data from the Ministry of Education. In 2022, 20 educational institutions did not have any candidate to take the Baccalaureate exam, according to the previously cited source. In 2021, there were 22 such educational units, and in 2020, there were 20 high schools without any candidate passed the baccalaureate. See below, in the article, the list by counties.

• The data regarding the number of state high schools without any candidate passing the exam were sent to Senator Ștefan Pălărie (USR) by the Ministry of Education.

• The success rate represents the percentage of students who passed the minimum required grade, i.e. 5 per subject, respectively 6 in total. This percentage is related to the total number of registered candidates, including those absent and those removed from the exam.

Last year, the counties with 2 high schools without any passed candidate are the following: Alba, Bacău, Buzău, Gorj, Olt and Satu Mare, according to data from the Ministry of Education.

Also in 2023, in Constanța and Harghita counties there are 3 educational units each without any candidate who passed the exam.

Order no. 6,801 of December 12, 2023, for the approval of the Methodology regarding the substantiation of the tuition figure for state pre-university education, the record of the numbers of preschoolers/preschoolers and students enrolled in private education units for the 2024-2025 school year, establishes that the high schools which, in the cumulative sessions of 2023 of the baccalaureate exam, no candidate has passed the exam, they will not propose tuition figures for the 9th grade with daily attendance.

Article 10 – “(1) Proposals regarding the tuition figure for the 9th grade, with frequency, day, high school education, corresponding to the field/profile/specialization/professional qualification will be made by the educational units for which they obtained the operating authorization provisional/accreditation by ministerial order. The educational units that, in the cumulative sessions of the 2023 baccalaureate exam, registered a pass rate of 0% or in which this exam was passed by only one graduate, will not propose tuition figures for the 9th grade with frequency day.“

In the document sent by the Ministry of Education, it is shown that the high schools without any baccalaureate pass will continue their activity, as high school education units, being able to teach at the high school level, the forms of evening education and reduced attendance. Graduates of the professional level will also have the opportunity to continue their studies at the high school level within the same educational units.

“In the situation in which some of the previously mentioned educational units pass the baccalaureate exam, they will have the opportunity to attend high school, 9th grade, day education, starting from the following school year” , reports the Ministry of Education.

The answer of the Ministry of Education:

Context information

Before the appeals, Edupedu.ro wrote that, in more than 50 high schools, no candidate from the Baccalaureate 2023, June-July session, passed the exam, according to the bacplus.ro platform. We specify that both state and private educational institutions were taken into account.

In the counties of Buzău and Constanța, there were 4 educational units each with not even one passing the BAC 2023, June-July session – before the appeals. In Alba, Ialomița, Satu-Mare and Harghita counties there were 3 high schools each without any graduates.

42 high schools in Romania have a 0% passing rate at Baccalaureate 2022, June-July session (before appeals), according to the bacplus.ro platform. 4 of these high schools are only in Maramureș county, 3 each are in Sălaj and Constanța, and 2 high schools each in Alba, Buzău, Caraș-Severin, Călăraşi, Dâmbovița, Dolj, Harghita, Ialomița and Tulcea counties.

At BAC 2021, the June-July session (before appeals), also in 42 high schools in the country, no student passed the exam, according to the BAC+ platform. The counties from which these high schools originate are the following: Alba, Arad, Bacău, Botoșani, Buzău, Caraș-Severin, Călărași, Constanța, Dâmbovița, Giurgiu, Gorj, Harghita, Maramureș, Olt, Prahova, Satu-Mare, Sălaj, Sibiu, Suceava , Teleorman, Timiș, Vaslui and Vâlcea. In 2020 there were 47 high schools with a 0% success rate.

In mid-June 2023, Marcel Ciolacu, the Prime Minister of Romania, said in the Romanian Parliament that “Romania must not have high schools where no student passes the baccalaureate. Romania must no longer have in the education system people with two or three qualifications, who became teachers only because they could not find anything better to do”.

List of Ministers of Education from 2020 to date:

1. Monica Anisie November 4, 2019 – December 23, 2020 (PNL): After being secretary of state for pre-university education in 2016, Anisie becomes a minister in the government of Ludovic Orban – minority government of the PNL. It has a mandate marked by the pandemic crisis in which school has been conducted, as in many other states, in an online or hybrid format.
2. Sorin Cîmpeanu December 23, 2020 – October 2022 (PNL): For the second time as minister, Cîmpeanu announces a series of reforms financed by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan, in which Education receives projects worth 3.6 billion euros with implementation by the year 2026. By “calibrating the subjects” and simplifying the exam programs, measures attributed to the online school during the pandemic, it brought the pass rate from the Baccalaureate 2022, respectively that of grades above 5 in the National Assessment 2022 to the highest of the last 12 years. In its mandate, the evaluation of doctoral schools, with an external component, is carried out, and several “pilot” trials take place regarding standardized testing and digitized correction of national exams in pre-university education. Cîmpeanu resigns after a scandal in which he was accused of plagiarism by misappropriating a course support.
3. Ligia Deca October 3, 2022 – present (PNL member) Former State Councilor at the Presidential Administration, the de facto author of the Romania Educată reports, Deca takes over the leadership of the ministry with a clear mission from Klaus Iohannis to pass through Parliament the controversial draft laws on education, launched in debate by Cîmpeanu. Do it on May 22, 2023, the very day the first general strike in Education in 18 years broke out. The draft laws were promulgated and published in the Official Gazette, after passing the constitutionality check. Deca was appointed for a new mandate, in the Ciolacu Government, after Prime Minister Nicolae Ciucă resigned according to an agreement in the coalition. On June 29, 2023, Ligia Deca announced on Facebook that she had joined the National Liberal Party.

In 2021, at the time of the negotiation of the portfolios of the Cîțu Government, Ludovic Orban, the PNL president at the time, said that he was asked not to lose the Ministry of Education, pointing to Iohannis, as G4Media.ro wrote: “I was asked not to lose the Ministry of Defence, the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Education – you know why, for the project Educated Romaniaand also the Ministry of Finance… because Mr. Cîțu said that it is mandatory that we also have the Finances, and then I agreed with him.”

Before the appeals, the pass rate for the 2023 baccalaureate exam was 72.8%, according to the results announced by the Ministry of Education. It is the highest pass rate for the June-July session, before the appeals, after last year, when 73.3% of candidates passed the Baccalaureate.

54 candidates who took the 2023 Baccalaureate exam, June-July session, obtained an average of 10, according to the Ministry of Education.

1. to have passed or recognized all language and digital skills assessment tests;
2. to take all the written tests and obtain a grade of 5 (at least) in each of them;
3. to obtain the general average of 6 (at least) in the written tests.

The grade point average for the written tests is calculated as an arithmetic mean, with two decimal places, without rounding. This represents the overall average of the candidate for the Baccalaureate exam. Where candidates achieve an overall average of 5.99, the overall average is rounded up to 6.00.

Candidates who appeared for all the exam tests, but do not simultaneously meet the conditions, as well as candidates who appeared for some, but not all the exam tests, are declared “rejected”.

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No candidate passed the baccalaureate in more than 50 high schools. The number of schools without passing the Baccalaureate has doubled in the last 4 years. From 2020 until now, PNL has led the Ministry of Education, with the ministers imposed by Klaus Iohannis