Hungary refuses to track Roma children's placement in special schools nationwide, as Europe's monitor finds school segregation persists.

Two European Court of Human Rights judgments against Hungary, Horváth and Kiss (2013) and Szolcsán (2023), found discrimination against Roma children through their misdiagnosis and placement in special schools and through segregated State primary schooling. On 4 December 2025 the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers, which supervises compliance, noted 'with deep regret' that Hungary does not plan to collect nationwide data on Roma children diagnosed with special needs or placed in special schools, and said available data, though incomplete, 'reveals continued segregation.' The Committee's notes record an NGO submission that headmasters' annual estimates of Roma pupils were discontinued in 2023, that 62% of Roma children in Hungary attend schools where all or most pupils are Roma per an EU survey, and that equal-opportunities experts were present at only two examinations nationwide in 2024.