Online School & Homeschool in Algiers

Online school and international curriculum in Algiers

For Algiers families — the Cambridge route the capital has never had, taught live and landing in your afternoon.

Live online Cambridge IGCSE, Cambridge A-Level, Pearson Edexcel International, IB Diploma Programme, and American Curriculum with Advanced Placement (AP) for Algiers families. Algiers carries Algeria's corporate and administrative weight — Sonatrach and the hydrocarbon sector's head offices, the ministries, the diplomatic and international-organisation community, and a professional class with long ties to France. Its international schooling is almost entirely the French system, anchored by the Lycée International Alexandre Dumas at Ben Aknoun, and demand for those places substantially exceeds supply. What the capital has never had is a British-curriculum route. Under the Loi d'orientation of 2008 schooling is free and compulsory to sixteen, so our clean default is supplementary: your enrolment carries that duty, and we teach the Cambridge or IB track live alongside it.

Challenges Algiers families face

International schooling in Algiers is overwhelmingly the French system, and places are heavily oversubscribed.
A British or IB route is scarce to non-existent, so families targeting UK, Gulf, or North American universities have had no local path.
Schooling is free and compulsory to sixteen under the Loi d'orientation n° 08-04 of 2008.
Hydrocarbon and diplomatic postings arrive and depart on contract timelines rather than admission cycles.
Time zone: Algeria runs CET (UTC+1) with no daylight saving — a fixed two-hour offset behind Nairobi EAT all year, with no seasonal drift.

Why Algiers families choose Smartious

The British route the capital does not have: Algiers is a French-system city with a long waitlist and no real Cambridge alternative. That gap is the whole reason we are here.
French alongside the English-medium core: In a country with one of the largest francophone populations in the world, Cambridge French sits naturally beside the academic track — and keeps French university options open.
A fixed offset, all year: Algeria runs CET with no daylight saving and Kenya observes none either, so our teaching hours sit at a constant two-hour offset with no seasonal drift.
An African school teaching African families: Smartious is Nairobi-built and Nairobi-taught, serving families in 40+ countries — not a European provider reaching in.
The law stated before anything is sold: Schooling is free and compulsory to sixteen under the Loi d'orientation of 2008; we run supplementary alongside your school and send you to the Ministère for anything else.

Algerian education law is set by the Loi d'orientation sur l'éducation nationale n° 08-04 of 23 January 2008. The State guarantees the right to education without discrimination and education is free at all levels in State institutions; schooling is compulsory to the age of sixteen, running as nine years of enseignement fondamental from age six followed by three years of secondary to the baccalauréat. We are not aware of an established parental-choice home-education route under that law, and we phrase it that way deliberately rather than asserting a categorical prohibition we cannot fully evidence — a family whose plan turns on the point should confirm the current position with the Ministère de l'Éducation nationale. Two related features are worth stating factually. Algeria maintains a national distance-education body through which learners have followed national programmes and prepared for national examinations, and the national examinations themselves — the BEM and the baccalauréat — can in defined circumstances be taken by independent candidates. Eligibility and procedure for both are ministry matters, confirmed directly, and neither is a homeschooling pathway we would present as such. What is unrestricted is structured education alongside a school enrolment, and that is what we build: the school carries the compulsory-schooling duty and the daily routine, while the Cambridge or IB track runs live in the after-school hours.

Smartious delivers to Algiers families online; the live programme is complete without in-person supplementation.

Live online via Smartious LMS. With Algeria on CET year-round and Kenya two hours ahead with no daylight saving on either side, classes land in the Algiers afternoon at a constant time every week of the year, with every session recorded.

Algiers holds Sonatrach and the hydrocarbon sector's corporate centre, the ministries, and the diplomatic community, with international schooling almost entirely French-system and heavily oversubscribed — and no British-curriculum route at all. Algeria runs CET (UTC+1) with no daylight saving, a fixed two-hour offset behind Nairobi EAT.

Family situations we work with

Sonatrach and hydrocarbon-sector corporate families.
Diplomatic, international-organisation, and development-sector families.
Algerian professional families seeking a British-curriculum route that does not exist locally.
Families on the French lycée waitlist needing a bridge or an alternative.
Dual-residence and returning diaspora families with ties to France.
Students targeting UK, Gulf, Canadian, or US universities.

Algiers communities and nearby areas

Algiers centre · Hydra · Ben Aknoun · Chéraga · Dély Ibrahim · Bab Ezzouar · Blida

Common questions from Algiers families

Is homeschooling legal in Algeria?

Schooling is free and compulsory to sixteen under the Loi d'orientation n° 08-04 of 2008, and we are not aware of an established parental-choice home-education route under that law. We put it in those terms rather than asserting a flat prohibition, and would tell any family whose plan depends on it to confirm with the Ministère de l'Éducation nationale. Structured study alongside a school enrolment is unrestricted, and that is what we offer.

Is there a British-curriculum school in Algiers?

Not in any established form — international schooling here is overwhelmingly the French system, anchored by the Lycée International Alexandre Dumas, with demand well above supply. The absence of a Cambridge route is precisely the gap live delivery fills.

Can our child keep French while studying in English?

Yes, and most of our Algerian families do. Cambridge French runs alongside the English-medium academic core, which keeps French and Canadian university options open while adding UK and international ones.

What are the class times like?

Algeria runs CET all year with no daylight saving and Kenya observes none either, so our teaching hours sit at a fixed two-hour offset — classes land in the Algiers afternoon at the same time every week of the year.

Guides for families in Algeria

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