Canadian School of Tashkent. A Canadian school,
taking root in Tashkent.
K–12, taught in English, anchored in Nova Scotia, rooted in Tashkent.
Recognized on three fronts.
CST is licensed by Uzbekistan’s Ministry of Preschool and School Education across K–12, by the Province of Nova Scotia for the Canadian high school program, and is a member of the Council of International Schools.
Ministry of Preschool and School Education.
CST is a fully licensed school under the Ministry of Preschool and School Education of the Republic of Uzbekistan, operating from Kindergarten through Grade 12 in compliance with national requirements while delivering its Canadian-aligned K–9 curriculum and Nova Scotia high school program.
Department of Education & Early Childhood Development.
CST's high school program is licensed by the Nova Scotia Department of Education and Early Childhood Development. Students complete the same provincial curriculum as their peers in Halifax and graduate with the Nova Scotia High School Graduation Diploma.
Council of International
Schools.
CST is a member of the Council of International Schools, the global body for quality assurance and continuous improvement in international education. Membership signals CST's commitment to internationally benchmarked standards in teaching, leadership, safeguarding, and student wellbeing.
In the spirit of excellence and collaboration,
fostering curiosity and character.
That is our mission, and it is not a slogan. It is a precise description of what should happen every day in every classroom at CST. The two words at its heart — curiosity and character — carry the full weight of our pedagogical philosophy.
Our vision adds the social dimension: a community of curious and responsible individuals, aspiring to grow and serve. Learning at CST is never purely individual. Students learn with and from one another, from teachers who are themselves learners, in a community that places responsibility to others alongside responsibility to self.
Four values.
Lived every day.
The backbone of CST's school culture — present in classroom expectations, recognition, and the everyday language of feedback.
Curiosity.
A lifelong love of learning — the desire to question, explore, and discover. The engine of intellectual growth, and the habit that turns students into thinkers.
Excellence.
A commitment to the highest standards in academic work, personal conduct, and institutional practice. A habit, not an event — built through daily care and accountability.
Responsibility.
Ownership of one's learning, actions, and impact on others. Character made operational — the daily discipline of doing what is right, even when it is hard.
Collaboration.
Working effectively across cultures, disciplines, and perspectives. In a school of thirty-four nationalities, the practice that makes community possible, and friendship lasting.
A school built around every child.
Every child known by name.
Class sizes are capped at twenty across all bands, so teachers know each student as a learner and as a person. CST is large enough to be diverse and small enough that no child becomes a number on a roster.
Teachers who know your child.
Teachers eat lunch with their students, attend their concerts, and notice when a quiet child has been quieter than usual. Every child has an adult who is paying attention — and parents are part of that conversation.
Three traditions, one school.
Canadian rigour, international perspective, and Uzbek heritage — all three at once, not one at the expense of the others. A child can grow into the world without ever leaving who they are.
A school is finally judged not by what it teaches,
but by who the children become after they leave it.
A message from our
Executive Director.
Leading a school is, before anything else, a daily practice. It is what happens in the corridors at eight in the morning, what is heard in the staffroom at lunch, what a child says when a parent asks how their day was. The work of running CST is to hold those small moments to the standard of the larger promise: a Canadian education, in the heart of Tashkent, that takes every child seriously.
Every decision at CST traces back to three questions. What does it feel like to be a child walking through these doors every morning? What does a teacher need to do their best work? What does a parent need to feel certain their child is being well served? I ask these questions of every policy, every hire, every change to the day.
We are proud to be licensed by the Province of Nova Scotia, proud to be the first Canadian school in Uzbekistan, and proud of the academic ambition our students bring to their work. But the credential is the consequence, not the purpose. The purpose is the children. If that resonates with how you think about your child's education — please come and see us.
The people behind CST.
Our school is led by a small, deliberate team. Between them, decades of experience across Canadian, international, and Uzbek education.
We came to CST looking for a school. We stayed because we found a community our children call home.
Come and see for yourself.
A school is what happens between its walls. The only way to know if CST is right for your family is to walk through ours.