signed with the city council details his obligations and rights: to teach children Christian doctrine and to read, write and count. Except in the case of poor families, all families had to pay in wheat to the teacher who also received the salary stipulated by the city council. At that epoch the school was located at the council building. The teacher also had the function of keeping the clock on the church tower. In 1816 the brothers and neighbours of the town Juan Bautista and José Antonio Legarra had Migelena house rebuilt. The school was moved to that house and the parish priest Juan Bautista Legarra served as a teacher between 1822 and 1843. In addition to the teacher, a mistress was appointed to teach the girls. The first of them, between 1823 and 1846, was Juana María Aranburu. In his will, Juan Bautista Legarra ceded to the municipality the school building, already known as Donjuanena, for use as a school. The school stayed at Donjuanena until 1930 when a new one was built on the plot of Madrigal house. In March 2020, a new building was opened for use by the Basque Government Department of Education, which comes to replace the old one that had become small and out-dated. Alkiza's school offers preschool and primary education. Pupils older than 12 go mainly to Villabona or Tolosa for secondary education. Language According to data from 2016, in Alkiza 88.8% of the population can speak Basque language and the social use of the language is 83.6% (2017). At the school, Basque is the vehicular language for teaching. The municipality is member of the Commonwealth of Basque-speaking Municipalities (UEMA) since December 2019. Tolosaldea variant of the Gipuzkoan dialect of Basque is spoken, but as a consequence of the use of Standard Basque in both education and media and the more frequent interactions with speakers of other dialects, younger generations have a more hybrid speech. At Ahotsak portal there are recordings of 8 persons, 5 men and 3 women born between 1917 and 1941, which are samples of the traditional Basque variant spoken in Alkiza. Culture Alkiza is a municipality of great cultural activity. Throughout the year multiple cultural activities such as lectures, musical performances, exhibitions or theatre are organized. Two cultural weeks are also organized, one in San Isidro (May) and the other in San Martín (November). On the other hand, between