Aurel Vlaicu High School (Romanian: Liceul Teoretic Aurel Vlaicu) is a high school located at 8 Gheorghe Lazăr Street, Orăștie, Romania. The school was established in 1919, following the union of Transylvania with Romania, and was the first Romanian-language high school in Orăștie. Its founding resulted from the intransigent attitude of the Hungarian principal at the Reformed Church’s Kún Kocsárd College, who refused to record grades for Romanian language as a subject. This spurred students and local intellectuals to call for a separate institution, and every Romanian pupil from Kún defected to the new school, which had eight grades and was named for aviator Aurel Vlaicu. For two years, it operated out of the former state girls’ school. In autumn 1921, with 427 pupils causing overcrowding,