When it is time for parents to send a child to kindergarten, they need reliable information on how to start, where to apply and which actions to perform.
To send a child to kindergarten you first need to put him/her into a waiting list to kindergarten, obtain a referral and undergo the procedure of enrollment to kindergarten as well as gather all the required documents.
In this material we will describe the actions to be taken to send a child to a national kindergarten.
Queue for kindergarten in cities moves slowly and sometimes you can reach your turn in several years just in time when a child is ready to go to kindergarten. That is why it is recommended to put a child into a waiting list to kindergarten after registration of birth.
The public service of placing pre-school children on a waiting list for a place in a pre-school organisation is automated and operates on a 24/7 basis and carries out a continuous process of distributing available places to applicants as new places become available.
You can put a child into a waiting list to kindergarten using one of the options:
To submit an application online, you need to open a separate service:
In application you need to indicate a child`s IIN, select a desired kindergarten and sign it with digital signature. When your turn will come, you will receive a notification with referral to a selected kindergarten.
The same principle is also applied to services delivered by akimats.
If you decided to apply via PSC, you need to submit the following documents:
Queue to kindergarten can be tracked online:
There is a general waiting list for enrolment in preschool organizations, which is formed according to the locality (town, village, municipality) in which the children are born and for each year of birth separately.
A waiting list for special preschool organizations is formed within the locality to a preschool organization for the year of birth of the child, separately for each year of birth.
A waiting list for a special preschool organization is formed within the municipalities in respect of the year of birth of the children separately for each year of birth.
Applications are placed in the waiting lists according to the date and time of submission of the application by the applicant.
If you raise a child with special educational needs, you may put the child on several waiting lists simultaneously - the general waiting list, the special preschool, the sanatorium preschool.
A child younger than 6 years old as at 1st September of the current school year in order to apply and be on the waiting list (except for children with special educational needs who have the corresponding opinion of the psychological, medical and pedagogical commission and children who are younger than 6 years old as at 1st September of the current school year).
When your turn comes up, you choose an appropriate kindergarten from among those that have places available.
Individuals with a right to get an unscheduled place are children of military men or to an employees of a specialized government agency;
Individuals with a priority right are children of teachers, children from large families, children of disabled parents, children without parental custody, orphans and children with special needs.
Applications for an extraordinary place come before applications for a priority place.
Applications are sorted by the date of application submission. A queue is started with those with a right for an unscheduled place, then come individuals with a priority right, then 3 applications without any benefits and once again those with a right for an unscheduled place, then come individuals with a priority right, then 3 applications without any benefits, etc.
A queue might not only progress forward but also backwards, i.e. if those with benefits are added to a queue, it moves backwards.
Automated queue management system:
To send a child to kindergarten you need a referral. After your turn came, you will be able to select a kindergarten via online service and if there are vacant places in the desired kindergarten, you will receive a referral.
Referral validity term is 5 working days. If within 5 days, a referral won`t be registered in a kindergarten`s electronic system, it is deemed to be expired. In this case, a referral will be canceled and moved to a stop-list for 10 days. Being moved to a stop-list, you won`t be able to participate in distribution of vacant places.
It is possible to enroll to a kindergarten not only during the summer period when groups are formed but also within a year.
To be enrolled to a kindergarten, you need to visit it with a following documents:
The list of documents is complete for all types of pre-school organizations. It means that neither a national nor public kindergarten has a right to require any more documents upon a child`s enrollment.