The Schela commune has a population which amounts up to 2800 inhabitants.
About 2000 people live in the Schela village and about 800 people live in the
Negrea village.
Late history with villagers' migration to cities raised the homogeneousness
of remaining people in the villages.
Almost all the inhabitants in these two communities are relative among themselves.
1965. Wednesday, market day in Schela village
The average life duration in the commune is 67,5 years old.
The oldest inhabitants are Stroia Iordache- 97 years old
and Marioara Enache- 96 years old.
Statistics say that in Schela women generally live longer
than men.
Despite that, the ratio between the two sexes is well-balanced:
in the commune live 52% women and 48% men.
The Health Unit in Schela
Girls in Schela wearing traditional dresses
Since they are 14 years old, more than 60% of the teen-agers
leave the commune for continuing their studies.
The yearly number of girls leaving the villages
for studies is bigger then the boys' number.
Most of these young people never come back to live and
settle down in the commune.
This may be a reason that explains why over 65% of the
nowaday population consists of people who is more
than 40 years old.
Nevertheless women in Schela are famous for their beauty.
Pupils in Schela primary school
Most people in Schela are brown-haired and hazel-eyed.
If we take, for example, a class of pupils in the Primary School in Schela,
9 are brown-haired, 7 are dark-haired and 4 are fair-haired.
In the same class, 11 of these kids are hazel-eyed, 6-blue-eyed,
2-dark-eyed and just a green-eyed kid.
Compared to other Romanian communities, inhabitants in Schela are
generally taller and stouter.
Men have over 1,70 meters hight and women over 1,60 meters hight.
Pupils in Negrea primary school
Children in Schela in 1969
Stroia Andone in front of his house in 1957
Children from Schela