Culture of educational institutions in the Croatian educational literature is a relatively new concept. This term usually implies the accumulation of many individual values and norms, attitudes and beliefs, historic rituals and traditions, etc., that make up the unwritten rules about how to think, feel, behave and act in a particular educational institution. In addition, the concept of cultural educational institutions includes and defines social interaction. Many authors emphasize the culture of the institution with the way it works, because culture permeates everything that happens in the institution. Studying the culture of the educational institution is considered to be very important because changing the culture of the institutions may change other determinants of the quality of the educational process that takes place in it. Without a culture that recognizes, encourages and directs the specific goals of change, progress in the educational institution can’t happen. Therefore, the concept of educational culture is studied and its elements are analyzed. In addition, the paper presents the types of educational culture and cultural change.