Klimovichi's first school - a one-class parochial school - was opened in 1837. It had been the town's one and only educational establishment for the next 24 years. "The 1861 Memorable Book of Mogilev Province" reports that there was a two-class parochial school in Klimovichi at that time. One can consider teachers, who worked in the parochial school, to be the first pedagogues in Klimovichi district.

The booming period of popular education in the pre-Revolutionary time was the 1880s. This decade saw schools opened in Galichi, Zvenchatka, Ivanovsk, Kovalevka, Ledeshna, Makeyevichi, Neznan, Paparats, Studenitsa, Sudzily, Hotovizh, Tserkovischi and Yanov.

In 1909 there were 644 inhabited settlements in Klimovichi Uyezd (district) with a total school-age children population of 15921 (aged between 8 and 11). There were three types of school: run by the ministry of education (42 schools), run by local authorities (3 schools; a village would pool money to hire a teacher - 37) and parochial schools - 103 schools. There is one special feature about school classification: if there was one classroom in a school, a school like that was referred to as a one-class school and so on. There were 4383 students attending schools run by local authorities and 79 pedagogues to do the teaching job. On average, one teacher used to have a class of 55 students. There were 4320 students attending schools run by parishes. The biggest one of the two-class Miloslavichi teacher-training school. 70% of Klimovichi district teaching staff were graduates of the Miloslavichi school.

There was a one-class parochial school opened in Klimovichi in 1865 with an all-girls shift. Later on in 1861 there was a private all-girls school opened in Klimovichi, which was granted a status of a four-class state lyceum in 1906. Besides, there was a two-class uyezd school opened in 1865.

There was not a single secondary educational institution in Klimovichi district at that time. Secondary education enthusiasts would have to go either to Mogilev (133 km away from Klimovichi), Mstislavl (57 km), Roslavl (75 km) or Novozybkov (120 km).

Educated people were at a premium in the town of Klimovichi and in Klimovichi district, so in 1907 a district society was set up to promote secondary education, spearheaded by marshal of the nobility Nikolai von Guebenet. Passed on September 10 1907, the district society statutes read that "the major reasons to set up the aforementioned society were: the absence of a railway line, secondary educational institutions and the fact that the small remote town has no streets with nice-looking shop-windows, with no entertainment available, and, therefore, town students were supposed to study better than their counterparts in big towns. The morals in the town are high and young people are always seen by teachers and parents in a small town like ours".

There was an all-boys lyceum opened in 1909 and an all-girls state grammar school in 1912 on the premises of a four-class private pre-lyceum.

In 1910 on the contemporary territory of Klimovichi district, including the town of Klimovichi, there were 47 schools, of which only two provided secondary education that would be equal to the present day's 7-class standard.

After the revolution of October 1917 education maters were in the hands of the poplar education department of Klimovichi Uyezd Council of workers and village deputies, set up January 28 1918.

The 1918 school year saw the opening of 103 new elementary schools and a lyceum. In September 1918 there was held a congress of teachers of all district educational establishments, with 326 people taking part.
Back in 1924, when Klimovichi became part of Belarus, there were 49 schools there, including two seven-year schools. There were 93 teachers to educate 4018 students.

In 1928 the district's popular education could boast of 98 schools, including four seven-year ones, and a vocational school. There were 181 teachers to educate 7848 students. Besides, in the district there were 5 village libraries, 67 amateur societies and 15 public associations, whose job was to liquidate illiteracy, with 676 regular visitors.

In 1939 there were 2 secondary schools in Klimovichi. There were secondary schools in Rodnia and Miloslavichi, semi-secondary schools in Lozovitsa, Osmolovichi and also a kolkhoz school in Klimovichi, which educated book keepers and accountants, cattle-breeders and field-crop growers.

The restoration of the school network, which was destroyed by the Nazi invasion (1941-1945), began soon after liberation. In December 1943 there were 70 elementary and 17 semi-secondary schools operating in the district, with a total of 350 teachers and 6970 students.

In 1947 there were 105 schools working in the district with 9028 students attending classes from 1st to 4th, 1865 - from 5th to 7th, 131 - from 8th to 10th.

At the moment, there are 16 secondary schools in Klimovichi, 7 eight-year schools (including a boarding school), 6 elementary schools, 2 music schools, a sports school, a vocational college, a vocational school, 22 kindergartens and 35 libraries.