Miasto Stoleczne Warszawa

Education is also compulsory for everyone under 16 years old. According to the law, every child under 16  is obliged to study until reaching  16 or until lower-secondary school graduation (whatever comes first). Parents are obliged to register their child to school and to take care of their effort and attendance.

All children, regardless of their legal status, have a right and duty to  learn at the starting grades of education :
- ‘0’ grades, preparing 5 and 6 year old children to attend primary school, supervised by school (for free) or kindergarten (on payment )

• primary schools (children from 6/7 till 11/12)
• lower-secondary schools (children from 11/12 till 14/15).

Education on the higher grades depends on the foreigner’s  legal status and is available for:

• the foreigners who apply for the refugee status
• the refugees who have tolerated stay permission or those under subsidiary protection
• the children of Polish origin according to the repatriation laws
• the foreigners with so called ‘Green Card’ (Karta Polaka)
• the foreigners with a permission to settle
• the foreigners with temporary EU’s residency status
• the foreigners with  a temporary protection
• the foreigners who have  right to education based on international agreement
• the foreigners who  have a temporary stay permission in reference with reunion with  the family  or temporary resident status in other EU’s country.

The children with the other types of legal status may take advantage of education on higher grades by charge or throughout the scholarship. Scholarships may be offered by Ministry of  National Education, school headmaster, county or borough authorities.