Ion Luca Caragiale National College (Bucharest)

The high school was founded on October 1, 1895, as the Application School, at the initiative of Alexandru Odobescu, director of the Școala Normală Superioară. First located at 46 Calea Rahovei, the school was intended for the practical training of future teachers and professors;{{cite web|url=https://www.cnilcb.ro/?cat=13|title=Istoric|language=ro|publisher=Ion Luca Caragiale National College Bucharest|website=www.cnilcb.ro|access-date=August 27, 2024}}{{cite web|url=https://leviathan.ro/inaugurarea-scolii-de-aplicatie-a-scolii-normale-superioare-9-noiembrie-1895/|title=Inaugurarea Școlii de Aplicație a Școlii Normale Superioare (9 noiembrie 1895)|language=ro|magazine=Leviathan|date=November 9, 2020|access-date=August 27, 2024}} its first director was Francudi Epaminonda. In 1898, the school was renamed the Application Gymnasium (affiliated with the University Pedagogical Seminary), and its director became Constantin Dimitrescu-Iași, who held this position until 1920, when he was replaced by Ion A. Rădulescu-Pogoneanu. In 1928, the school's name was changed to Titu Maiorescu Boys' High School.

The plot on Calea Dorobanți was purchased in 1921, and the first floor of the present building was completed in January 1929. For a few years, the location was occupied by the Mihai Eminescu High School. Construction resumed in 1933; the second floor was completed in 1943, and the other two in 1947, when the courtyard was also expanded. In 1948, the new communist regime changed the institution's name to Boys' High School No. 7; after merging with the Girls' High School No. 12 in 1948, the school was renamed in 1954 as "I.L. Caragiale" Mixed Secondary School No. 7. In 1974–1977, an addition was built, facing Dorobanți Plaza. From 1978 to 1989, the school functioned as an industrial high school, but after the Romanian Revolution of 1989, it became again a theoretical high school.

The Ion Luca Caragiale National College is an institution of lower secondary (gymnasium) and upper secondary public education. There is a single section (A) for each of grades 5 to 8, and there are 10 sections (A to J) for each of grades 9 to 12:{{cite web|url=https://www.cnilcb.ro/?cat=18|title=Clase – an școlar 2021–2022|language=ro| publisher=Ion Luca Caragiale National College Bucharest| website=www.cnilcb.ro|access-date=August 28, 2024}}

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|Mathematics–Informatics, intensive informatics

|Mathematics

|Mathematics–Informatics, intensive English

|Mathematics–Informatics, bilingual English

|Philology

|Natural Sciences

|Mathematics–Informatics, bilingual German

|Social Sciences

|Philology, bilingual English

|Philology, bilingual German

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In 2024, the admission score into grade 9 was 8.87/10 (9.40–9.60 for Mathematics–Informatics) and the graduation rate was 99.3%. Also that year, 297 students took the Baccalaureate, obtaining an average score of 8.99/10 (ranked 75th nationally).{{cite web|url=https://www.bacplus.ro/i/colegiul-national-i-l-caragiale|title=Colegiul Național "I.L. Caragiale"|language=ro| website=www.bacplus.ro|access-date=August 28, 2024}} At the 2024 evaluation of all Romanian secondary schools, the Ion Luca Caragiale National College came in 10th place, with a score of 9.46/10.{{cite news|url=https://www.libertatea.ro/stiri/cele-mai-bune-20-de-scoli-gimnaziale-din-romania-pe-baza-rezultatelor-de-la-evaluarea-nationala-2024-4950154|title=Cele mai bune 20 de școli din România pe baza rezultatelor de la Evaluarea Națională 2024| first=Ramona|last=Ciobanu|language=ro|newspaper=Libertatea|date=July 8, 2024|access-date=August 28, 2024}}

The school buildings cover an area of {{cvt|3905|m2}}. This space houses 30 classrooms, 18 IT labs, 12 laboratories, and 2 gyms. There is also a library with 44,000 volumes, a modern reading room, a chapel, a choir room with two pianos, a greenhouse, and a hall for festivities. The outdoor sports base includes 2 basketball courts, a handball court, a 50 m running track, a long jump pit, and endurance running track.{{cite web|url=https://www.cnilcb.ro/?cat=24|title=Dotări|language=ro|publisher=Ion Luca Caragiale National College Bucharest|website=www.cnilcb.ro|access-date=August 27, 2024}}

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• {{ill|Dumitru Bodin|ro}}{{cite web|url=https://www.cnilcb.ro/?cat=14|title=Profesori iluștri|language=ro|publisher=Ion Luca Caragiale National College Bucharest|website=www.cnilcb.ro|access-date=August 27, 2024}}
• Nicolae Cartojan
• Șerban Cioculescu
• Constantin Dimitrescu-Iași
• Mihail Dragomirescu
• Constantin Dimitrescu-Iași
• Constantin Giurescu
• Petre V. Haneș
• {{ill|Nicolae Lungu (composer)|lt=Nicolae Lungu|ro|Nicolae Lungu}}
• Simion Mehedinți
• Octav Onicescu
• Dimitrie Pompeiu
• Nicolae Quintescu
• Constantin Rădulescu-Motru
• Ion A. Rădulescu-Pogoneanu
• Lazăr Șăineanu
• {{ill|Nicolae-Victor Teodorescu|ro}}
• Grigore Tocilescu
• Gheorghe Țițeica
• {{ill|Iuliu Valaori|ro}}

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• Radu Bălescu
• Ștefan Bănică Jr.
• Andrei Blaier
• {{ill|Andrei Brezianu|ro}}
• {{ill|Simona Bondoc|ro}}
• Matei Călinescu
• Andrei Chiliman
• {{ill|Dorina Chiriac|ro}}
• {{ill|Marina Constantinescu|ro}}
• Daniel Dăianu
• Gil Dobrică
• {{ill|Maria Dragomiroiu|ro}}
• {{ill|Octav Enigărescu|ro}}
• {{ill|Andrei Finți|ro}}
• {{ill|Lucia Hossu-Longin|ro}}
• {{ill|Eugenia Maci|ro}}
• {{ill|Bogdan Marinescu|ro}}
• {{ill|Irina Movilă|ro}}
• Virgil Nemoianu{{cite web|url=https://www.autorii.com/scriitori/virgil-nemoianu/|title=Virgil Nemoianu – biografie – (opera și scrierile)|language=ro|website=www.autorii.com|access-date=August 27, 2024}}
• Sorin Oprescu
• Cornel Oțelea
• Gabriela Pană Dindelegan
• {{ill|Liviu Papadima|ro}}
• Dinu Patriciu
• Lucian Pintilie{{cite web|url=https://www.cnilcb.ro/?cat=15|title=Alumni|language=ro|publisher=Ion Luca Caragiale National College Bucharest|website=www.cnilcb.ro|access-date=August 27, 2024}}
• {{ill|Laurențiu Profeta|ro||fr}}
• Mircea Răceanu{{cite web|url=http://www.plai-cu-boi.ro/protect/12/ultim_condamnat.html|title=Ultimul condamnat la moarte|language=ro|first=David|last=Binder|magazine=Plai cu Boi|issue=12|date=December 2001|access-date=August 27, 2024|archive-date=February 18, 2003|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030218231740/http://www.plai-cu-boi.ro/protect/12/ultim_condamnat.html|url-status=dead}}
• Vlad Rădescu{{cite news|url=https://evz.ro/vlad-radescu-nepotul-generalului-radescu-actor.html|title=Vlad Rădescu, nepotul generalului Rădescu, actor de geniu, la ceas aniversar|language=ro|first=Florian|last= Olteanu|newspaper=Evenimentul Zilei|date=November 19, 2023|access-date=August 27, 2024}}
• Nicolae N. Săulescu{{Cite web| url=https://acad.ro/acad_membri/membri/Saulescu_NicolaeN.html|title=Nicolae N. Săulescu – Inginer agronom, genetist|language=ro|publisher=Romanian Academy|website=acad.ro|access-date=August 27, 2024}}
• {{ill|Valeria Seciu|ro}}
• Ilie Șerbănescu
• {{ill|Cornel Todea|ro}}
• {{ill|Ilinca Tomoroveanu|ro||de}}
• {{ill|Adriana-Diana Tușa|ro}}{{cite web|url=https://www.cdep.ro/pls/parlam/structura2015.mp?idm=307&cam=2&leg=2016&pag=0|title=Adriana Diana Tușa. Curriculum Vitae

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• Ion Vitner{{cite web|url=https://tinread.upit.ro/opac/authority/84694;jsessionid=9C18830EEBF8BBC5EB19E626FC2B4A96|title=Vitner, Ion (1914–1991)|language=ro| publisher=Biblioteca Centrului Universitar Pitești|website=tinread.upit.ro|access-date=August 27, 2024}}
• Gelu Voican Voiculescu{{Cite web|url=https://evenimentulistoric.ro/ce-a-facut-inainte-de-revolutie-gelu-voican-voiculescu-batut-pe-21-decembrie-2019-in-piata-universitatii.html|title=Ce a făcut înainte de Revoluție Gelu Voican Voiculescu bătut pe 21 decembrie 2019 în Piața Universității|language=ro|first=Cătălin|last=Pena|date=December 21, 2019|publisher=Evenimentul Istoric|access-date=August 27, 2024}}

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|File:Ion Luca Caragiale National College at night.png|Front entrance, on Calea Dorobanți

|File:Ion Luca Caragiale National College in Bucharest (5).jpg|The school viewed from Roma Street

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