In 1472 a church school was built in Lyck. It was extended as a Latin grammar school in 1546. That gave an impetus to Lyck to become the intellectual centre of the region. Primarily, that school aimed at pupils whose mother tongue was Masurian. Its goal was to prepare boys with good intellectual abilities for the studies of theology, medicine and law in Königsberg. The Latin grammar school became a county school in 1587 and a royal school in 1599, which was converted into a grammar/high school in 1813. From 1913 to 1924 it was a grammar/high school with a secondary school attached and became the stately Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Higher Secondary School in 1931, which was downgraded in 1937 to become an ordinary secondary school.
In 1573 a Latin grammar school and in 1579 a girls' school were opened in Neidenburg.
In 1613 a Latin grammar school was mentioned for the first time in Goldap, which was replaced by a reformed grammar school in 1904.
From 1799 to 1807 and from 1902 to 1926 there was state-owned teacher training school in Lyck, from 1828 to 1924 there was another one in Angerburg and from 1830 to 1894 there was one in Rosoggen. This one was transferred to Ortelsburg where it remained until 1914.
From 1833 to 1906 there was a school for deaf-mute children in Angerburg and in 1877 an agricultural school was established. Furthermore, there was a continuation school which opened in 1924. More agricultural schools were in Johannisburg and Goldap.
In 1884 the Countess of Mirbach from Sorquitten opened a training school for basket-makers in Alt Gehland.
There was a domestic science school in Kumilsko.
Higher education was also available in Ortelsburg (Hindenburg-Grammar-School), Goldap (lyceum), Neidenburg, Johannisburg and Sensburg, where also an agricultural school was established in 1921 and an evening school was opened in 1950. Masurian evening schools were established in Jablonken and Rudzisken.
Today Margrabowa is home to the Masurian college (in Polish: Wszechnica Mazurska). In Sensburg there is a hotel management school and Nikolaiken has the Marion-Dönhoff-Lyceum.
In the school year of 2003/2004 732 students, who were taught in 24 forms, attended the grammar school no.1 in Lyck.
The grammar school no. 2 was established in 1999. At that time 33 teachers taught 371 students in 14 forms. The number of teachers grew to 52 who taught 584 students in the school year of 2000/2001. 50 of the students took part in a competition under the title "The importance of 2000 years of Christianity in the history and culture of the Polish people". In the school year of 2001/2002 773 students of three age-groups attended this grammar school in 28 forms. 333 students of the oldest age-group took the A-level examinations. For the first time students who had been made fit for life graduated from this grammar school. In 2004/2005 teachers and students of the grammar school no.2 started actions to fight crime. Their programme included preventive measures, such as a healthy lifestyle and how to repress aggressive behaviour. Topics such as Aids, personal hygiene, drug addiction, consequences of truancy or the roll of the probation officer were also part of the programme.
This school has a European school club called JANUS which deals with problems of the EU.
At the site of the church school of 1472 in Lyck there is a training college of mechanics and electrical engineering today, based on a municipal vocational school which was established in 1946. At that time the training staff consisted of 5 teachers who were training 12 apprentices. As the main building was still destroyed classes were being held in the school workshop. By 1952 the conditions had been improved, and after that numerous organisatorical changes were made. A greater variety of courses were offered next to more classical crafts such as tailor, baker, butcher, joiner, pastry cook. New training profiles include occupations such as milling cutter, lathe operator, locksmith, engineering-, vehicle-, railway- and agricultural mechanic, electrician, welder, telecommunications engineering and many more. Practical experience can be gained in co-operation with factories and commercial enterprises. In 2003/2004 approximately 900 students attended this school.
Soldau has 4 municipal nursery schools with crèches connected, 2 primary schools, 2 grammar schools, 2 secondary schools providing general education, two secondary schools focusing on mechatronics and economics respectively, a secondary school placing emphasis on economics and management studies, a college of business management and a commercial college. The University of Warmia and Masuria operates departments for correspondence courses of law and administration as well as the postgradual studies of informatics and accountancy. Further education is being offered at the state-owned music school, at the vocational college for students of grammar schools, regarding postgradual medical studies and secondary school correspondence courses for adult persons, at the Training Complex "Knowledge", at the Soldau Centre for Teacher Training and at the Soldau Centre for Training and Advanced Training. There are courses of the English and the German language, of vocational advanced training and courses at the Allenstein Trade College.