Kindergarten and school: from what age a child must be admitted, when the application is filed and how much of the kindergarten fee comes back.
Questions in this section
- How to enrol a child in a state primary school in CyprusParents of a child turning 6 before 1 September, and anyone enrolling a child in a state primary school for the first time. Every child of any nationality living in Cyprus has the right to enrol — the ministry states expressly that the lawfulness of the parents' stay makes no difference.
- Kindergarten in Cyprus: from what age and how to enrolParents of children from 3 until school age. From 4 years 4 months by 1 September pre-primary education is compulsory; below that age it is voluntary and depends on places. Every child of any nationality living in Cyprus has the right to enrol, regardless of the lawfulness of the parents' stay.
- Kindergarten fee subsidies in Cyprus: two schemes, and who gets whichParents paying for a kindergarten before free compulsory pre-primary education begins. There are two schemes and you do not choose between them: the child's age on 31 August decides which is yours. Their conditions differ so much that one family can qualify for the second and not for the first.
What is most often misunderstood
- Your address picks the school, and two bills have to prove it — the first thing a newcomer trips over — How to enrol a child in a state primary school in Cyprus
- The threshold falls every year — and the ministry's own Russian guide is seventeen years behind, on both counts at once — Kindergarten in Cyprus: from what age and how to enrol
- Three neighbouring rules about the same child — and three different demands on the family's status — Kindergarten fee subsidies in Cyprus: two schemes, and who gets which