expat-services.ch lists 6 hand-checked English-speaking schools and childcare providers in Küsnacht, including Colourwoods Montessori Kinderhaus, Lakeside School, Rundil and Spanischkurs Zürich.
Besides English, they also work in German, French, Italian and Spanish. Every profile shows the services, languages and contact details, checked by hand before going live.
Schools & childcare in Küsnacht
6 providers
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Colourwoods Montessori Kinderhaus
Bilingual schools · Küsnacht
Bilingual English–German Montessori kindergarten in Küsnacht for ages 3 to 6.5, with a pre-kindergarten year and two kindergarten years.
UnclaimedLanguages: EN · DE
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At-home and online tutoring in the Zurich and Zug area for IB, IGCSE, A-Level, Swiss Matura and Gymi exam preparation; the company also offers nanny services.
UnclaimedLanguages: EN · DE · FR
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Tandem International Multilingual School (Tandem IMS)
Bilingual schools · Küsnacht
Multilingual German–English–French day school in Zurich-Seefeld and Küsnacht, from nursery to Grade 6 plus its own Gymnasium, on Lehrplan 21 and the UK National Curriculum.
UnclaimedLanguages: EN · DE · FR
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Schools & childcare: what's particular to Küsnacht
Küsnacht's Schulverwaltung, Heinrich-Wettstein-Strasse 18, is open Monday to Thursday 08:30 to 12:00 and 13:30 to 16:30, and Friday mornings (Gemeinde Küsnacht, checked ). School entry follows a fixed calendar: an information evening in September, online registration in December, play afternoons in January, a second evening in March, the class allocation in early May (calendar week 19 for August 2027), a visit afternoon in June and the first school day in August (Schule Küsnacht, checked )(Schule Küsnacht, checked ). Children who move in during the school year are allocated within a few working days (Schule Küsnacht, checked ).
Before kindergarten, the municipal Kinderkrippe Heslibach has 24 places for children from four months to four years and opens from 07:00 to 18:15; private crèches in the village are listed by the school authority too (Schule Küsnacht, checked )(Schule Küsnacht, checked ). Subsidies are requested from the Schulverwaltung under the council's crèche contribution regulation of 1 May 2019 (Schule Küsnacht, checked ).
School-age care is run in four KICK centres (Dorf, Goldbach, Heslibach and Itschnach), whose tariff regulation comes with separate calculators for people taxed at source and for those who file a return (Schule Küsnacht, checked ). Lower-secondary pupils can eat at the school canteen on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday (Schule Küsnacht, checked ).
Registering in Küsnacht
Newcomers register at the Einwohnerkontrolle on the ground floor of the Gemeindehaus, Obere Dorfstrasse 32, or through the eUmzug platform for moves within Switzerland (Gemeinde Küsnacht, checked ). Federal law gives 14 days to report a move (Fedlex, checked ). The municipal fee schedule sets CHF 40 per adult, which also covers deregistration and a change of address (Gemeinde Küsnacht, checked ). See registering at your commune.
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