Over 3,000 students applying to Warsaw high schools did not get to any

As many as 3,173 candidates applying to secondary schools in Warsaw did not get into any this year. Over 82 percent of those students wanted to study in a comprehensive school and every fourth of them (756) had graduated from their elementary or middle school with honors.

Warsaw vice president Renata Kaznowska said that over 47,000 people (including 17,000 from outside the city) applied to secondary schools in the Polish capital this year. More than 45,000 places in schools were prepared for them. In recent years, the number of secondary school candidates usually stood at about 19,000.

(PAP)