Basic education is divided into 3 levels: primary, lower secondary and upper secondary. Primary education includes five years of schooling, from the first to the fifth grade (the age of pupil of the first class is six). Secondary education includes 4 years for lower secondary (from the sixth to the ninth grade) and 3 upper secondary years (from the tenth to the twelfth grade).
The target of primary education is to help students to set the initial foundation for an appropriated and long-lasting moral behaviors, knowledge, physical and aesthetic developments and other basic skills for them entering lower secondary education.