There are a total of 21 general educational schools in the Valkivsky Raion.
They educate and train 4,469 school children with an average class size of 19 pupils.
There are 20 preschool educational institutions with 689 children in the Raion.

Extracurricular education in the Raion is based on three educational institutions:
House of Creative Work for Children and Youth; Raion Tourism, Local History, and Excursion Center for Schoolchildren; and Sports School for Children and Youth. These institutions have 111 study and hobby groups in the following areas: arts, esthetics, science and technology, environment and nature, tourism and local history, and sports. The total of 1966 school-age children participate in extra-curricular activities or 44% of the total schoolchildren.

The quality and effectiveness of the training and educational process are assured by the skilled teaching staff who are undertaking focused efforts to implement the key objectives of the State educational policy, ensuring the appropriate level of education, and providing the conditions for implementing the didactic and educational process.

The educational institutions employ 420 teachers, 82 of whom have the highest qualifications category and 112 have category 1. The honorable title of "Distinguished Teacher of Ukraine" has been awarded to two teachers - N.I. Ovcharenko, teacher of Ukrainian language and literature of the Kovyahy settlement School, and N.V. Babicheva, teacher of mathematics of the Valky School. The title of Methodologist-Teacher was granted to nine teachers, that of Senior Teacher to 39 educators.


The educators of the Raion make a valuable contribution to the treasure trove of innovations of region's pedagogical expertise. The methodology products presented at the Oblast fair have been awarded diplomas. These include the "The Literary Valky Country" collection, handbook "Writers of the Kharkiv Region", methodological recommendations "Aspects of Ecological Education".

There are a lot of talented and gifted pupils and children's groups among the Raion schoolchildren, who are winners of various international dance competitions, national scientific, literary, tourist and local history, and sports competitions.

A school in the village Novy Merchyk is a branch of the Physical Geography and Cartography Chair of the Kharkiv Karazin National University. It is also a Raion base for the local chapter of the Small Academy of Sciences. The alumni of this school are repeated winners of regional and national contests in geography and win certificates of merit for their papers presented to the Small Academy of Sciences.

Two new schools, one in the city of Valky and the other in the village Oleksandrivka were commissioned in 2001 and 2002.