An organizational entity created – on the basis of a charter or a record in the register – by an administrative body, a local self-governing body, a legal or private person on the basis of regulations of the appropriate Education System Act.

A school conducts training of a specific kind and on a particular level and has a status conferred by an entity or the headperson, specifying, among others, its name, type, the governing authority and its internal organisation. Schools can be public, non-public with the status of a public school, and non-public, other establishments of the system of education are public or private.

• Act of 7 September 1991 on the Education System
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