"Vuk Karadzić" High School, Lopare

Lopare received its first high school in September of 1977, now bearing the name of Vuk Karadzic, the great reformer of the Serbian script.

The high school currently has 402 students, studying economics, law and administration, as well as mechanical technology and metalworking, commerce, hospitality and tourism. 20 permanent and 14 occasional teachers provide classes, with the school also providing adult education.

Practical teaching is done in the school's shops and at the agricultural cooperatives of 'DP Majevica', 'Trgovina' and "HTUO Majevica" in Lopare and Priboj.

Contact:
Phone: 055\671-078; 055\670-960
E-mail: ssrs61lo@rstel.net

"Sveti Sava" Elementary School, Lopare

Elementary education began in Lopare almost 80 years ago with but 20 students.

Records say that the first teachers with the Saint Sava Elementary School were the married couple, Marica and Tihomir Jovanovic, after which came Stojan Koraksic and Radivoje Lolic. At a time, classes were held in a building owned by the Serbian Orthodox Church, which was donated to the Church by Austrian restauranteur Kuzman Lendeman, known to the people as Kuzman Laus.

The school has in its existence occupied various buildings, including barracks and the like, to finally receive a modem school building.

The Saint Sava School covers Lopare, Lopare Selo, Kozjak, Pirkovci, Mackovac, Jablanica, Labucka, Vukosavci, Tobut, Piperi, Vakuf, Brusnica and Konjikovici.
The school currently has six, associated, area schools, with a total of 694 pupils, from grades one through eight, and 54 staff.

Records show that from its founding in 1921, it has employed 181 teachers.

"Veljko Cubrilovic" Elementary School, Priboj

This elementary school in Priboj is one of the oldest in the region, it having begun its work in 1880, when, as was the case with most schools of the time, it was a confessional foundation.

After the Sarajevo assassination of Austro-Hungarian heir to the throne, Franz Ferdinand, the school stopped operating, while the then teacher of the Priboj school, Veljko Cubrilovic, was arrested by Austrian authorities for taking part in the planning of the assassination, and sentenced to death. He was hanged in Sarajevo on Feb. 3, 1915.

The Priboj school again started to teach with the end of WWI. In WWII, enemy soldiers from Teocak put the school to the torch. Teaching was not re-commenced until 1947, in a renovated school building and at the parish hall. A new school building was built in 1956, where pupils are still receiving their schooling, and a gymnasium was added in 1982.

The Cubrilovic school presently has 264 pupils, 21 teachers and an additional 14 staff. The school was hit by mortar-fire on several occasions during the last patriotic war, and was not renovated until 1996, through funds provided by Children's Aid and EHO. A serious shortcoming is the lack of equipment and other teaching aids, as these were destroyed in the war.

"Dositej Obradovic" Elementary School, Koraj

First school in Koraj began operating in 1882, and continued without a break until Nov. 27,1941, when it was destroyed in the war. It again began teaching in 1945, and within six years expanded to include six grades.

The school once again suffered the ravages of war - in 1992 in the patriotic war - with the pupils attending classes until Sept. 1, 1998 at the village clinic.

Dositej Obradovic now has 216 pupils and 26 staff, and is one of those schools which still do not have enough teachers.