Preschool education and training
There are 601 preschool education organizations in the region (2024 - 599 preschool organizations), including 272 kindergartens and 329 preschool mini-centers (2024 - 270 kindergartens and 329 mini-centers), with a total coverage of children aged 2 to 6 years - 42,799 children (2023 - 42,507 children). Coverage at the age of 2 to 6 is 94.4%, from 3 to 6 years 100%.
General secondary education
There are 554 schools in the region (552 in the 2023-2024 academic year), including 530 state daytime comprehensive schools (528 in the 2023-2024 academic year), 9 evening schools, 5 special correctional schools, 2 non-departmental schools, 6 non-state schools, 1 Nazarbayev Intellectual School, Iqanat School.
Strengthening and formation of the material and technical base
The provision of new modification classrooms is 80%, a total of 1,223 classrooms.
In 2025, funds were allocated from the regional budget for the construction of 6 educational facilities.
Construction:
2 schools for 888 places (a boarding school in Kokshetau for 588 places, a 300-place school in the village of Bestobe in Stepnogorsk);
3 kindergartens for 840 children (for 280 children in the village of Karaotkel, Tselinograd district; for 280 children in the city of Kosshy, for 280 children with speech impairments in the microdistrict of Saryarka, Kokshetau).
1 student dormitory (Higher College of Culture named after A. Sery)
Construction of a school for 500 children has begun in the city of Kokshetau using private investment (TOO Kazzinc and JSC Altyntau Kokshetau).
In the village of Birsuat, Zharkainsky district, a school for 80 children is being built using private investment (to eliminate the emergency situation of the school).
A dormitory for 450 children is being built using its own funds by the private Higher Multidisciplinary College of Civil Defense of Kokshetau.
Technical and vocational, post-secondary education
There are 29 colleges in the region (22 public, 7 private)
with a contingent of 19.5 thousand students, of which 16.3 thousand or 83% are covered by free education.
Currently, the colleges of the region train specialists in 97 specialties and 165 qualifications that are in demand in the labor market.
In the 2024-2025 academic year, 5,600 people were admitted to colleges of the region within the framework of the state order for training personnel from technical and vocational education (OB - 3,600, RB - 2,000).
Work continues on the development of social partnership. Dual training has been introduced in 26 colleges with the participation of
759 enterprises.
11 colleges are participants in the "Zhas Maman" project.
As a result of modernization and the introduction of international standards, 31 competence centers have been opened on the basis of colleges - participants of the "Zhas Maman" project.
The project purchased equipment for training qualified personnel in 19 specialties that are in demand on the labor market.
Educational work and social protection of childhood
There are 1,251 orphans and children left without parental care in the region, of which: under guardianship and trusteeship - 903, foster care - 92, foster families - 13, in boarding institutions - 173.
The coverage of children with additional education was 81.9% due to children attending additional education organizations, clubs, sections in schools, as well as the state educational order for additional education.
The state order is carried out in 13 districts in 58 organizations: Atbasarsky, Arshalynsky, Burabaysky, Ereimentausky, Egindykolsky, Shortandinsky, Tselinogradsky, Korgalzhinsky, the city of Kokshetau, the city of Kosshy for 9,790 places.
On personnel work
There are 17,050 teachers working in the region's schools. There are 15,234 teachers with higher education (89.4%), and 1,816 teachers with technical and vocational education (10.6%). According to the new system, 12,600 teachers in the region have been certified, which is 74% (of which 5,755 are moderator teachers, 4,412 are expert teachers, 2,392 are research teachers, and 41 are master teachers).