In today's world this gap between the richest and the poorest is constantly widening. This paper aims to examine the impact of this economic inequality on the quality of education in two selected European countries--Poland and Finland. The choice of countries is not accidental: Finland was chosen because it has one of the best-rated education systems in the world, while Poland was chosen to indicate potential solutions, the application of which, may improve the quality of education in our country. To demonstrate that economic inequalities have a significant impact on education, rather show that it is economic inequalities, and no other factors such as political and administrative decisions, that have a significant the regional level was taken as the reference level in the analysis.