Online School & Homeschool in Tbilisi

Online school and homeschool in Tbilisi

For Tbilisi families from Vake to Saburtalo — live Cambridge delivery in the Caucasus's relocation capital, where the international tier fills faster than it grows.

Live online Cambridge IGCSE, Cambridge A-Level, Pearson Edexcel International, IB Diploma Programme, and American Curriculum with Advanced Placement (AP) for Tbilisi families. Tbilisi has become the Caucasus's relocation capital — a remote-work and professional migration wave from across the region and beyond has transformed the city's international community in a few short years, layered over a growing tech and services economy and the institutions of a capital. Its international-school tier — the New School, QSI Tbilisi, the European School, the British-track schools — runs roughly USD 5,000-20,000 and fills faster than it grows. Georgian law offers more room than most families realise: the eksternati form allows general education to be completed externally through Ministry-organized examinations, secondary school after grade ten is optional, and structured education beside any enrolment is always open. Smartious delivers the international pathways live across all three configurations — planned around the 2024 amendments most pages online have not caught up with.

Challenges Tbilisi families face

The international tier runs roughly USD 5,000-20,000 and fills faster than the relocation wave grows it — waitlists are real at the popular entry points.
Since the 18 July 2024 amendments, compulsory education runs through grade ten (about age sixteen) — basic education is now four years — and most online guidance still cites the old nine-grade rule.
The eksternati route is official but paperwork-driven: examinations are organized by the Ministry through its territorial bodies, and the state track runs in Georgian.
Relocated families arrive mid-year, mid-contract, and mid-childhood — rarely on admission cycles.
Time zone: Georgia runs UTC+4 year-round — one hour ahead of Nairobi EAT, so live afternoon teaching lands in the Tbilisi late afternoon, after school.

Why Tbilisi families choose Smartious

Enrolment at relocation speed: Families arrive mid-year; Smartious enrols the week they land — full pathway, waitlist bridge, or supplement, with no queue and no admission cycle.
The framework stated to the 2024 law, not the old one: Compulsory education now runs through grade ten; basic education is four years; the eksternati route validates external completion. We plan to the current statute while most guidance online cites the old one.
The window after grade ten, used properly: Secondary school is optional — the A-Level years run at the family's choice, and we plan whole pathways backward from sixteen.
The fee-relief and bridge track beside the tier: Live Cambridge, IB, and American curriculum from USD 5,076/year beside a USD 5,000-20,000 campus tier that fills faster than it grows.
A timezone that lands after school: Georgia is one hour ahead of Nairobi year-round — live teaching lands in the Tbilisi late afternoon, exactly where structured study belongs.

Georgian law's room for home study runs through the eksternati form: general education can be mastered independently and validated through written examinations organized by the Ministry — basic and secondary stage exams at schools defined by the Ministry's territorial bodies, resource centres for the complete-general-education finals, and a formal appeals process behind it all. It is official and workable, and it is paperwork-driven: we help families document the curriculum, prepare for the Georgian-language state track all year, and approach the territorial body's arrangements prepared. The two simpler configurations stand beside it: a school enrolment carrying the obligations while Smartious runs live Cambridge subjects in the late-afternoon slot, and — since the 2024 amendments set compulsory education at grades one through ten — the full A-Level pathway from about sixteen, outside the framework entirely.

Premium tier includes optional in-person home tuition supplementation for Tbilisi families during Cambridge IGCSE, A-Level, and IB Diploma examination preparation periods, subject to associate teacher availability.

Live online via Smartious LMS. Classes land in the Tbilisi late afternoon and early evening — Georgia is one hour ahead of Nairobi EAT year-round — after the school day for supplementary students and in prime study hours for full-track students. Recorded sessions 24/7. Works across Magti and Silknet fibre.

Tbilisi is the Caucasus's relocation capital — a remote-work and professional migration wave layered over a growing tech economy — with an international tier at USD 5,000-20,000 that fills faster than it grows, an eksternati framework few families are told about, and a post-grade-10 window reshaped by the 2024 amendments. Georgia runs UTC+4 year-round, one hour ahead of Nairobi EAT.

Family situations we work with

Remote-work and relocated professional families across the recent migration wave.
Families queued at or priced out of the New School-QSI-European School tier.
Georgian families adding an internationally examined track beside a school enrolment.
Families completing general education through the eksternati route with a structured live curriculum behind it.
Teenagers past grade ten taking the full A-Level pathway outside compulsory education.
International-university-bound students — including toward Tbilisi's own English-taught programmes.

Tbilisi communities and nearby areas

Vake · Saburtalo · Vera · Mtatsminda · Didi Dighomi · Ortachala · Tskneti

Common questions from Tbilisi families

Is homeschooling legal in Tbilisi and Georgia generally?

Georgian law's lawful route is the eksternati (external studies) form: general education mastered independently and validated through Ministry-organized written examinations, arranged through the Ministry's territorial bodies. Beside it, structured supplementary education runs freely beside any enrolment — and after grade ten, secondary school is optional, so the A-Level years need no framework at all.

What changed in 2024?

The 18 July 2024 amendments extended basic education from three years to four: the structure is now primary (I-VI), basic (VII-X), and secondary (XI-XII), and compulsory education — primary plus basic under the Constitution — runs through grade ten, to about sixteen. Most guidance online still cites the old nine-grade rule; we plan to the current one.

What is the post-grade-10 window?

Secondary education (grades XI-XII) is not compulsory. A teenager who completes grade ten may lawfully study full-time live Cambridge A-Levels from about sixteen — no framework, no state examinations — with sittings at Tbilisi's authorised provision.

How does Smartious compare to the New School, QSI, and the European School?

They are excellent campuses at roughly USD 5,000-20,000 that fill faster than the relocation wave grows them. Smartious delivers live online Cambridge, IB, and American curriculum from USD 5,076/year — the alternative, the waitlist bridge run as full schooling, and the supplement.

Where do Tbilisi students sit Cambridge examinations?

At Cambridge/Edexcel-authorised Tbilisi provision and the British Council — confirmed per family per session.

Can my child access Georgian universities with A-Levels or an IB Diploma?

Georgia's English-taught tier is real — Kutaisi International University, Tbilisi's medical programmes teaching thousands of international students, and business schools — serving international qualifications with requirements confirmed per programme; the state admission track runs through the Unified National Examinations. UCAS and the Common Application stand open internationally.

Guides for families in Georgia

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