In Atyrau 79% of dance schools work on Sunday, in Shymkent 25%. We count the schedules of Kazakhstan businesses by category, and dance schools showed the widest spread across cities of everything we looked at. There are 1,421 schedules with a readable timetable
751 schools work on Sunday, 52.9%. Within the country this number means almost nothing: in Atyrau 79% of schools do it, in Shymkent 25%. The difference is threefold, and it is not about city size: Shymkent is four times larger than Atyrau
| city | schools | open on Sunday | share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atyrau | 28 | 22 | 79% |
| Aktau | 50 | 36 | 72% |
| Astana | 322 | 221 | 69% |
| Pavlodar | 47 | 32 | 68% |
| Semey | 28 | 19 | 68% |
| Karaganda | 80 | 48 | 60% |
| Aktobe | 40 | 23 | 58% |
| Ust-Kamenogorsk | 31 | 17 | 55% |
| Kostanay | 49 | 25 | 51% |
| Almaty | 449 | 202 | 45% |
| Taraz | 47 | 21 | 45% |
| Uralsk | 35 | 14 | 40% |
| Shymkent | 169 | 43 | 25% |
Almaty holds a third of all schools in the country and still sits in the lower half of the table. Shymkent, with its 169 schools, closes Sunday in three cases out of four
A dance school lives after work, and the schedule confirms it
| when | share of schools |
|---|---|
| close at 20:00 or later | 69.7% |
| close at 21:00 or later | 51.9% |
| open before 09:00 | 63.3% |
| open on Sunday | 52.9% |
| open all seven days | 50.7% |
According to our data, schools most often close at 21:00: 373 schools do this. Next is 22:00 with 302. At 18:00, 231 schools close, a sixth of the total
An adult chooses a school in the evening, a parent chooses for a child on a day off. Both are the hours when a class is under way at the school and the administrator is not sitting at the desk
Then the spread from the first table kicks in. A person in Shymkent writes to three schools on Sunday, two of them are closed and will reply on Monday. The first school that replied the same day takes the student, not because it teaches better
A membership makes the price of a mistake high. A student comes for a trial and stays for months, so a lost request costs more than one class
Three numbers from the school's messages for the last school year:
The third number will show the price of the delay in memberships, not in messages
There is nowhere to move the class schedule: the evening and the weekend are the students' time. What is worth moving is the hour of REPLY, which does not depend on the class schedule
The methods vary: an administrator with a phone for the evening, the owner replying between groups, ooon.ai on incoming messages. It is worth starting by measuring the three numbers above
The source is open listings of dance schools and studios in Kazakhstan with a parsed schedule, status "active". The category was determined by the listing's rubric, selected by rubric name without regard to case. The city table keeps cities with 20 or more schools. Counted on September 3, 2026
Numbers in this article come from our own database of public directories in Kazakhstan, counted on September 3, 2026. We count them ourselves and never take them from other reports