Our school mission is to provide educational services, to meet the present and future needs of each student, to develop their potential through the acquisition of skills by emphasizing the educational values of the local, national and European community. We also aim at rising the quality of teaching process by improving our human resources and ensuring a better communication within the triad school – children -parents.

Our school also wishes to initiate and operate partnerships and school projects, together with the local, regional, national and European community.

The Golden Age of aviation created idols in each country. Romania had a special one :

• ENGINEER
• DESIGNER
• CONSTRUCTOR
• PILOT.

“Aurel Vlaicu made the Romanians’ dream of flying come true!”

Aurel Vlaicu was born in Binţinţi (now Aurel Vlaicu), near Orăştie, Transylvania, which was part of Austro-Hungarian Empire at the time. He attended the Calvinist High School in Orăştie (renamed "Liceul Aurel Vlaicu" in his honour in 1919) and graduated in Sibiu in 1902.

After working at Opel car factory in Rüsselsheim, he returned to Binţinţi and built a glider he flew in the summer of 1909. Later that year, he moved to Bucharest, where he began the construction of Vlaicu I airplane; it flew for the first time on June 17th , 1910.

With his Vlaicu II model, built in 1911, Aurel Vlaicu won several prizes summing 7,500 Austro-Hungarian krone (for precise landing, projectile throwing and tight flying around a pole) in 1912 at the Aspern Air Show near Viena, where he competed against 42 other famous aviators, including Roland Garros.

Aurel Vlaicu died in 1913 near Câmpina while attempting to fly over the Carpathian Mountains in his Vlaicu II airplane. He is buried at the Bellu cemetery, in Bucharest.

School Number 40 was established in the industrial area of Constanta in 1981; it had 1,000 pupils at the time.

November 6th, Aurel Vlaicu’s birthday, becomes the school aniversary.

In 1995 the school gets the name of the great aviator Aurel Vlaicu and changes it in "Aurel Vlaicu" Secondary School.

In 2000, our school gets the certificate of "my Europe" school from the Department of Education of the European Union. In the same year "Aurel Vlaicu" maths contest was founded. The first "Generation of European integration"