Secondary schools
Slovene Istria did not get Slovene secondary schools until after the war, since, with the exception of a class at the teacher training college in Koper in the period 1875–1909, it had never had them in the past. Conditions for organising and running them were difficult, since in the first year there were neither teachers nor students in the Koper district. To begin with they came from Zone A and other parts of Primorska. Along with Koper, Portorož also became a kind of centre of education, with tourist facilities being used to house schools.
This situation lasted until the early 1950s, when the schools were transferred to Koper and the buildings were once again destined for tourism, which had begun to revive.
Koper, 8 February 1949 – students and teachers of the Slovene gymnasium (general secondary school). It opened in October 1945 as a lower gymnasium and became a full gymnasium in March 1947.
Teachers and the first graduates of the Slovene gymnasium in Koper in June 1952.
Žusterna, 28 April 1947 – students of the nautical and commercial academy, the future secondary nautical school, in its first premises. Lessons began here in March 1947.
Portorož, June 1947 trainees and students of the teacher training college with their professors at the end of the first academic year. In 1953 the teacher training college moved to Koper.
Portorož, June 1948 – the first year of the second generation of students of the teacher training college with teachers Danica Župan and Hinko Uršič.
Second-year students of the lower gymnasium in Portorož with their teachers, June 1948. The school was founded in January 1947. In 1953 it moved to Piran. Following the school reform of 1958, it became part of an eight-year combined primary/lower secondary school.
Students of the Škocjan agricultural school during practical lessons in April 1947. The school had commenced regular classes a year earlier.
Students of the women’s crafts school in Koper with head teacher Zora Ličen in June 1951. The school was founded in 1949 and remained open until 1960.
