The government has approved a bill to give an extra €1,323,960 in scholarships to 81 municipal schools. The schools have the best results in the school-leaving exams in Bulgarian language and literature and in maths, the government press office said.
The scholarships reward pupils' results at these schools. To pick the schools, officials looked at their final-year students' results over five years in a row.
The schools are split into seven groups. For four groups, officials used the average score in the Bulgarian language and literature exam. For the other three, they used the average score in maths. Each pupil gets between €15 and €45, depending on the school's group.
The scholarships have not gone up since 2017, education and science minister Prof Georgi Valchev said on November 6.
A 20% rise is planned for 2027, and the minimum amount will go up first.