Good to know
Good to Know
- Very few Tbilisi international schools publish tuition online; expect to request a formal quote/invoice directly from the admissions office for an accurate, current price.
- Most established international and bilingual schools cluster outside the strict city center — in Vake/Bagebi, Tskneti, Saburtalo and the Lisi Lake area — so factor in commute time when choosing a neighborhood as a relocating family.
- The European School and New School International School of Georgia are among the few institutions in Georgia authorized for all three IB programmes (PYP, MYP, DP); if a full IB continuum matters, verify current authorization status directly with the IB Organisation's school directory before enrolling.
- Georgian citizens and non-Georgian citizens are sometimes charged different tuition tiers at the same school (seen explicitly at the Guivy Zaldastanishvili American Academy), so always ask which tier applies to your family.
- Rolling admissions at schools like QSI mean you can often apply mid-year, but don't wait until arrival — placement testing, document translation/recognition, and interview scheduling all add lead time.
- If a Georgian-citizenship or merit scholarship matters to your family, note that scholarship application windows (roughly February–April, with a mid-March deadline documented for one major school) are separate and stricter than general rolling admissions.
- Have school transcripts translated into English (or the school's instruction language) in advance — this is a commonly required document and can be a bottleneck if left until the last minute.
- Homeschooling legality in Georgia specifically (not the US state) could not be confirmed at the time of research — verify directly with Georgia's Ministry of Education and Science before planning around it.
Schools And Curricula
- Overview
- Tbilisi has a growing but relatively small international-school market, concentrated mainly in Vake, Saburtalo, Bagebi/Tskneti and the Lisi Lake area. Most schools do not publish detailed tuition tables online and require families to request a quote directly; concrete published figures are rare and are noted below where found.
Schools
European School (Tbilisi)
- Location
- 34 Kazbegi Ave, Tbilisi
- Accreditation
- First CIS (Council of International Schools) accredited school in Georgia (2022); IB World School authorized for PYP, MYP, DP and CP.
- Ages Or Grades
- 3 to 18
Tuition
- Status
- Not published in an official per-grade table; third-party aggregators estimate an overall day-school tuition range.
- Note
- Range originally reported in USD by a third-party school-comparison aggregator; GEL figures here are back-converted approximations, not the school's own published pricing.
Estimated Annual Range
- Amount USD Low
- 5060
- Currency Local
- GEL
- Amount USD High
- 14057
- Amount Local Low
- 13300
- Amount Local High
- 37000
Curricula
- IB Primary Years Programme (PYP)
- IB Middle Years Programme (MYP)
- IB Diploma Programme (DP)
- IB Career-related Programme (CP)
- Georgian national programme
- American programme / Advanced Placement (AP)
- STEM
35 Tskneti Highway, Bagebi, Tbilisi
- Name
- New School International School of Georgia (formerly International School of Georgia)
- Ages Or Grades
- 3 to 18; Georgian and English sections
- Notes
- Described by multiple sources as one of the few schools in Georgia authorized for all three IB programmes in a single institution.
Tuition
- Status
- Not publicly disclosed — school asks families to inquire directly.
Curricula
- IB Primary Years Programme (PYP)
- IB Middle Years Programme (MYP)
- IB Diploma Programme (DP)
- American High School (AHS) / AP track for grades 8–12
- Georgian national curriculum (parallel Georgian-language section)
Newton Free School
- Size
- Around 850 students from 40 nationalities
- Campuses
- Tbilisi and Saguramo campuses
- Ages Or Grades
- 3 to 18
Tuition
- Status
- Not publicly disclosed — school asks families to inquire directly.
Curricula
- IB Primary Years Programme (PYP), ages 3–11
- IB Middle Years Programme (MYP), ages 11–16
- IB Diploma Programme (DP), ages 16–18
Deutsche Internationale Schule Tbilissi (German International School Tbilisi)
- Ages Or Grades
- Includes early years/kindergarten through secondary
Tuition
- Status
- Partial published figures for 2025/2026
- First Year Kindergarten Age3
- GEL 12,040
- Note
- First-year figure includes one-time enrolment fees on top of regular annual tuition; ongoing-year fees not separately itemized in public sources.
Curricula
- German curriculum
- IB Career-related Programme (CP)
QSI International School of Tbilisi
- Location
- Village Zurgovani, Tbilisi
- Ages Or Grades
- 2 to 18 (through Secondary 4)
- Notes
- Private, non-profit; aimed at meeting the needs of foreign and local children who need continuity for return to home-country education systems.
Tuition
- Status
- Not publicly disclosed — school asks families to inquire directly.
Curricula
- American-style, English-medium curriculum (non-profit, US-oriented)
British International School of Tbilisi (BIST)
- Location
- Leo Kvachadze 17, Lisi Lake area, Tbilisi
- Ages Or Grades
- 3 to 18
Tuition
- Status
- Not publicly disclosed for 2026/2027 — school asks families to inquire directly.
Curricula
- National Curriculum for England
British-Georgian Academy (BGA)
- Location
- 37 Chavchavadze Avenue, Tbilisi
- Ages Or Grades
- Pre-school through secondary, plus a language school
Tuition
- Status
- Not publicly disclosed — school asks families to inquire directly.
Curricula
- British & Georgian International Curriculum
Buckswood International School Tbilisi
- History
- Founded 2000 (originally linked to a UN international school concept), relocated and rebranded as Buckswood in upper Tskneti in 2009.
Tuition
- Status
- Not publicly disclosed — school asks families to inquire directly.
Curricula
- National Curriculum for England (British model)
St. George's British-Georgian School
- History
- Established 2003 as 'British Connection', renamed St. George's British-Georgian School in 2013.
- Structure
- Primary School (Key Stages 1–2), Basic School (Key Stages 3–4), Secondary School (6th Form)
Tuition
- Status
- Not publicly disclosed — school asks families to inquire directly.
Curricula
- British-oriented curriculum (National Curriculum influence)
- Georgian national elements
Chaglar Nikoloz Tsereteli International School of Tbilisi
- Location
- Shuamta Street, Varketili, Tbilisi (further from the central/nomad-relevant districts)
- Languages
- Turkish and Georgian from grade 3; Spanish and Russian from grade 7
Tuition
- Status
- Not publicly disclosed — school asks families to inquire directly.
Curricula
- National Curriculum of England and Wales
The Guivy Zaldastanishvili American Academy in Tbilisi
- Location
- Lisi Lake area, Tbilisi
- Class Size
- No more than 15 students per class, seated around an oval table for seminar-style discussion
- Ages Or Grades
- High school
Tuition
- Security Deposit
- GEL 500
- Annual Georgian Citizens
- GEL 19,000
- Annual Non Georgian Citizens
- GEL 28,000
Curricula
- US-style curriculum using the Harkness (seminar-table) teaching method
ÉCole Française Du Caucase
- Ages Or Grades
- 3 to 18
Tuition
- Status
- Not publicly disclosed — school asks families to inquire directly.
Curricula
- French national curriculum, within the AEFE (Agence pour l'enseignement français à l'étranger) network
Georgian-American School
- Notes
- Positioned as locally-rooted rather than a fully international/foreign-curriculum school.
Tuition
- Status
- Not publicly disclosed — school asks families to inquire directly.
Curricula
- Georgian national curriculum with modern, standards-based adaptations
Enrollment And Homeschooling
Homeschooling
- Legal Status
- Not confirmed in available sources
- Co Op Community
- No specific, documented homeschooling co-op or support community based in Tbilisi could be verified at the time of research. This does not necessarily mean none exists informally among the expat community, but nothing citable was found, so none is reported here per the requirement not to assume one exists by default.
- Notes
- We were unable to confirm, from authoritative Georgian sources (e.g. Georgia's Ministry of Education and Science or the National Curriculum framework), the specific legal status and registration procedure for homeschooling foreign or local children in Georgia at the time of research — the sources we checked returned almost exclusively covered homeschool law in the U.S. state of Georgia rather than the country of Georgia, an easy mix-up given the shared name. Families considering homeschooling in Tbilisi should verify current rules directly with Georgia's Ministry of Education and Science before assuming legality or a specific registration path.
International School Enrollment
- Overview
- Tbilisi has roughly 10-17 schools that describe themselves as international or bilingual (English/German/Turkish/French plus Georgian streams), including QSI International School of Tbilisi, European School, Georgian-American School, St. George's British-Georgian School, International Maarif Schools Georgia, and others. Admission and enrollment procedures vary considerably from school to school, and space is often limited, with preference sometimes given based on nationality or sibling status.
- Waitlist Reality
- There is no single citywide waitlist system — each school manages its own capacity. Because seats are limited and demand from both expatriate and local families is real, especially at well-established, larger schools (one major IB school in the city enrolls students from 36 nationalities), families should not assume a seat is guaranteed on short notice, particularly for popular grade levels or right before the school year starts. Rolling admissions at schools like QSI reduce this risk somewhat compared to schools with fixed annual intake windows.
- Application Timing
- Most schools use rolling, year-round admissions rather than a single hard annual deadline. QSI International School of Tbilisi, for example, states that applications are accepted throughout the year and students are admitted based on space availability, so families relocating mid-year are generally not shut out, though popular grade levels can fill up. Separately, QSI's scholarship track (for Georgian-citizen and merit scholarships) has its own fixed cycle: a documented application deadline of March 13, 2026 for that cohort, with the scholarship window itself typically opening in February and closing in April. For families targeting the start of the academic year, applying by late winter/early spring of the preceding year is the safest way to secure a seat and, where relevant, a scholarship decision before enrollment.
- Assessment Process
- Beyond paperwork, schools commonly run placement testing and interviews before finalizing enrollment. QSI's process, as one documented example, moves through application review, then screening interviews and placement tests in reading, language usage and math, and grade placement is based on age, prior grade completion, and test results.
Required Documents
- Completed electronic application form
- Passport front page (or other government ID) for the student
- Copies of previous school records/transcripts for the current and prior school year, translated into English if not already in English
- For some schools/visa-linked processes: recognition of prior foreign education credentials may be required, which can add processing time
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