Good to know
Good to Know
- Kutaisi has far fewer international/bilingual school options than Tbilisi — most well-documented international curricula (IB, Cambridge, full British A-Level tracks) are concentrated in the capital, so nomad families needing those specific programs may need to weigh relocating to Tbilisi or Batumi.
- The Progress school's American Curriculum track leads to a dual diploma (Georgian + American), which can be useful for families planning onward study either in Georgia or abroad.
- Tuition at Progress increases by grade band (roughly GEL 7,000 for younger grades up to GEL 9,000 for senior grades per year), so budget more for older children.
- For schools other than Progress, published tuition and detailed curriculum info in Kutaisi is thin — it's worth contacting schools directly to confirm current fees and language-of-instruction split before relocating.
- Kutaisi's international/bilingual school scene is much thinner than Tbilisi's — Progress Georgian-American International School is the main documented option, so families should contact it directly and early rather than relying on published waitlist stats, which don't appear to exist publicly.
- If you're relying on homeschooling while based in Kutaisi, it's safer to formally homeschool under your home country's legal framework or an accredited online school than to assume Georgia has a clear domestic homeschooling statute — this could not be confirmed in official Georgian sources.
- No local homeschooling co-op or support group was found for Kutaisi specifically; expat parents homeschooling here appear to rely on online communities/curricula rather than an in-person local group.
Schools And Curricula
- City
- Kutaisi
- Overview
- Kutaisi's named international/bilingual school market is much smaller than Tbilisi's. The one well-documented, purpose-built international/bilingual K-12 school with a named Kutaisi campus and publicly referenced curriculum and tuition data is the Progress (Georgian-American) International School. Beyond that, a handful of local private schools in Kutaisi advertise multilingual instruction, but detailed curricula and fees for those are not publicly itemized.
Schools
Progress (Georgian-American International School) — Kutaisi Campus
- Type
- International / bilingual, part of a 3-campus network (Tbilisi, Kutaisi, Batumi)
- Diploma
- Dual diploma on graduation
- Grades Ages
- Preschool through Grade 12
- Accreditation
- Licensed by Georgia's National Center for Educational Quality Development; American program accredited by Cognia
- University Prep
- Prepares students for SAT, IELTS, TOEFL and Cambridge exams, with college counseling for university admissions
- Language Of Instruction
- Georgian and English
- Notes
- These tuition bands are published for the Progress school network covering Tbilisi, Kutaisi and Batumi as a single fee structure; a campus-specific Kutaisi fee schedule was not separately itemized in available sources.
Tuition
per academic year
- Per Academic Year
- GEL 7,000
per academic year
- Per Academic Year
- GEL 8,000
per academic year
- Per Academic Year
- GEL 9,000
Curricula
- Georgian National Curriculum
- American Curriculum, including Advanced Placement (AP) courses
Local Private Schools, Some Offering Multilingual Instruction
- Name
- Other named private schools in Kutaisi (e.g., Imedi School, Erudite, Country Effort, Intensive Education Center)
- Tuition
- Not publicly published
- Curricula
- Not publicly documented in detail — not confirmed as IB, American, or British curricula
- Language Of Instruction
- Listed as offering instruction options including Russian, English and Georgian
- Notes
- These appear in local directories as private school options in Kutaisi, but we could not verify a specific international curriculum framework or public tuition figures for them, so they are listed here for completeness rather than as confirmed 'international' schools.
Enrollment And Homeschooling
Local Homeschool Community Kutaisi
- Note
- No documented homeschooling co-op, support group, or meetup specific to Kutaisi was found. Do not assume one exists.
Homeschooling Legality Georgia Country
- Status
- Unclear needs verification
- What Is Confirmed
- Georgia's Law on General Education establishes compulsory attendance at authorized general-education institutions and governs status, language of instruction, and authorization of schools, but a clear, published legal framework specifically permitting and regulating home-based education (equivalent to the US 'declaration of intent' model) was not located in official Georgian government sources during this research.
- Practical Reality For Nomad Families
- In practice, foreign families in Georgia who want to homeschool typically do so under the legal framework of their home country or an accredited international distance-learning/online school (rather than relying on a distinct Georgian homeschooling statute), because Georgia's own compulsory-education law is oriented around enrollment in an authorized school rather than a codified home-study alternative.
International Bilingual Schools Enrollment
- Curriculum And Diploma
- The Progress American Curriculum awards a secondary diploma intended to be usable both in Georgia and internationally, and the school runs roughly 20 extracurricular clubs (STEM, civic education, personal development, etc.) across its Kutaisi campuses.
- Realistic Waitlist Expectation
- No credible, school-published waitlist data (seat numbers, average wait times) for Kutaisi's international/bilingual K-12 options turned up in research. Given Kutaisi's much smaller expat/nomad population compared to Tbilisi, the practical risk is less about long waitlists and more about limited program variety and capacity to serve non-Georgian-speaking children at higher grade levels — worth confirming class size and language-support capacity directly with the school before relocating.
- Required Documents General Guidance
- Specific, published document checklists for foreign-family enrollment at Kutaisi's K-12 international/bilingual schools were not found in available sourcing. Families relocating with children should expect to need, at minimum, the child's passport/ID, prior school transcripts or report cards, and proof of any prior grade level completed, since this is standard practice for private/international schools across Georgia even where a school's own checklist isn't published online; this should be confirmed directly with the specific school rather than assumed.
- Application Timing Honest Assessment
- Kutaisi does not have the dense, oversubscribed international-school market that Tbilisi has, so hard 'apply 12-18 months ahead or you won't get a seat' waitlist dynamics documented for Tbilisi's big-name international schools do not show up in available sourcing for Kutaisi. The one identified school (Progress) advertises intake cycles tied to specific program launches — for example it stated plans to open a fall 2025 intake for a new vocational IT track, contingent on receiving official authorization for that program.
Schools Identified In Kutaisi
Progress Georgian-American International School
- Notes
- The main documented international/bilingual K-12 option physically operating in Kutaisi (three campuses in the city). It is not a globally-branded IB/international-curriculum school in the way Tbilisi has; it runs an American-curriculum track alongside Georgian national programming.
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