Admission/registration to compulsory secondary education

What

Secondary schools (established by the state and local self-governing bodies) admit applicants for study by the law. Non-state secondary schools hold their entrance proceedings on other dates published on their respective web sites.

Foreign applicants must submit their permit for stay and an equivalent basic education certificate. To be usable in the Czech Republic the document on completed education must be provided with super-legalisation by the embassy of the Czech Republic accredited for the country issuing the certificate. The super-legalisation requirement does not apply to countries with the relevant bilateral agreement executed with the Czech Republic or signatories of the Haag Convention on cancellation of the requirement for legalisation of foreign documents The relevant authority and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the respective country legalises the document and the Embassy of the Czech Republic subsequently provides the super-legalisation. The list of the embassies is available on the web site of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Ministerstvo Vnitra) (in Czech and English): www.mzv.cz 

If the state issuing the document is a party to the Haag Convention then the final legalisation of the document is provided by Apostille signed by the relevant authority of that state. (in English and Frech): www.hcch.net. Signatories of the Haag convention include but are not limited to Albania, Australia, Belgium, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, France, Croatia, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Germany, United States of America, Spain, Sweden and Great Britain. The complete list of signatories of the Haag convention (in Czech): www.justice.cz (Legalisation of documents for their use abroad).

The pupil ending his/her compulsory basic education and interested in study at a secondary school fills out the required form in the year of his/her basic education completion and submits the form to the selected secondary school via his/her school headmaster. The deadline for the application submission to the headmaster of the school where the pupil completes his/her basic education by 20 February and the deadline for filing the application by the school headmaster by 15 March.

In the case of non-state secondary schools, the applications are submitted by the date published on the web site of the respective school.

The applicant not attending basic school at the moment of the application filing must submit his/her application personally.

Just one application for secondary school study may be filed for the first round of the admission proceedings.

Entrance examination – the invitation to the entrance examination is delivered by the school headmaster to the applicants at least 14 days before the entrance examination date; the invitation must include requirements for the entrance examination.

Where

You can find more in the web site of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (Ministerstvo školství, mládeže a tělovýchovy) (in Czech): http://www.msmt.cz/uploads/O21/O211/prijimaci_zkousky/Informace_MSMT_4552_2017_3.pdf

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