Elena Cuza National College (Romanian: Colegiul Național Elena Cuza) is a high school located at 12 Mihai Viteazul Sreeet, Craiova, Romania, teaching mainly foreign languages.
The initiative belonged to Iordache Otetelișanu but most of the money came from Constantin Lazaro, who gives the school the houses he inherited form his wife, Zoița Pârșcoveanca.
All the girls who were accepted in the school had to know to read and write in a foreign language.
In 1925, the Minister for National Education, Dr. Constantin Angelescu, considered to be a joint founder of the Elena Cuza Girls' High School,[1] decided "to put an end to the state of ruin in which the school was located, replacing it with a new, modern one, which corresponds to the requirements of the time".
[2] Beginning on 1 September 1928, "Elena Cuza" Girls' Boarding Secondary School, Grade II, received the name "Elena Cuza" Girls' High School, based on the Secondary Education Law of the same year.