Education is free of charge and compulsory from the age of 6 or 7 to 16 years, as stated in the national 
Law on Education.
[2] In 1996, the gross primary enrollment rate was 98 percent.
[2] Primary school attendance rates were unavailable for Lithuania as of 2001.
[2]
 While enrollments rates indicate a level of commitment to education, 
they do not always reflect children’s participation in school.
[2]

In Lithuania everybody has a right to education. Secondary education 
is compulsory until 16 years of age. Children start school when they are
 6 or 7 years of age. The school year in Lithuania starts at the first 
of September and lasts nine months. The children have one month holiday 
during the school years. The school children can stay at school for 12 
years, but some of them leave school after 10 years. These children 
enter vocational junior colleges or manual training schools. In these 
schools they can get both secondary education and qualifications 
necessary for a job.
Education in Lithuania has been centralized for a long time, but now 
almost every school has their own education system, but all systems do 
not differ from each other very much: children study almost the same 
subjects at all schools. Schoolchildren can transfer freely from one 
school to another.

Each class has its own classroom, where children have the most 
lessons, but there are special classrooms for physics, chemistry, 
biology, art and some other subjects. There are extra-curricular 
activities at some schools organized by clubs, sports and art societies.
After a secondary school, a vocational junior college or a manual 
training school, children can take entrance examination and enter the 
university.