The Grammar School

When in 1938. the construction of a larger school edifice began, that was the first indication of more serious interest of Užice craftsmen and merchants for the advancement of education in the town. The two-year semi-grammar school worked for three years only, as it was moved to Čačak by a decree of September 15th 1842.

For the following twenty-three years the citizens of Užice had to fight for the reopening of the grammar school until June 19th 1865, when the decree on the opening of the two-year Grammar school was revised. The first grade enrolled in the school year 1865/1866. The period from 1862 to 1880 meant “the golden age ” for Užice , which certainly influenced the decision of the minister of education to turn the two- year grammar school in Užice into Semi-grammar school. As soon as 1881. it became the complete Grammar school.

Ljubomir Stojanović, a statesman, politician and philologist, Ljuba Davidović, the minister of education and prime minister, Nastas Petrović, one of the leaders of the National radical party, the sculptor Simeon Roksandić and writer Miloš Petrović, Dragiša M. Đurić, the professor of Belgrade university and many others taught at the Grammar school in Užice.

The building of the Grammar school was constructed in the style of academic realism- academism.