Metaphor in pedagogy is used for the purpose of a deeper study of educational activities. Metaphors were used as tools in data collection for understanding the situation in the education system of Kyrgyzstan. The purpose of this study is to determine the metaphorical models of schools, high school students’ perception and attitude to their schools and the education system as a whole, as well as to compare their metaphorical images. Materi-als and methods. This study is a qualitative study, where the “phenomenon” was analyzed and a content analy-sis was made, reflecting the points of view of schoolchildren through metaphors. The data is analyzed in three stages, such as defining, analysis and categorization. This study involved high school students from var-ious regions of Kyrgyzstan. Research results, discussion. The findings show that 72,44 % of high school stu-dents used positive, 21,59 % of them - negative and 5,97 % of them − apathetic metaphors for their schools. The majority of students perceives their school as a home, considers it a second home, the center of knowledge, a universe, a great, pleasant and developing place and their approaches were positive. 52,5 % of the participants who used positive metaphors, perceived their schools as a home. The results show that ‘home’ was a dominant metaphor in this study. Some participants are not satisfied with their schools. They perceive it as a crowded, bor-ing, old, cold and not meeting modern requirements place. Some of them perceive their school as a place of pun-ishment, such as prison, hospital, tax office, and so on. Others used apathetic metaphors for their schools such as a place of waste of time and entertainment.