Online School & Homeschool in Haifa & the North

Online school and international curriculum in Haifa

For Haifa and northern families — a Technion city with engineering ambitions and few international options outside the centre.

Live online Cambridge IGCSE, Cambridge A-Level, Pearson Edexcel International, IB Diploma Programme, and American Curriculum with Advanced Placement (AP) for Haifa and northern families. The city is built around the Technion and a major engineering, research and technology sector, alongside the country's principal port and its petrochemical complex, with the Krayot and the Galilee beyond. It is a strongly academic and multilingual region whose students aim at engineering and the sciences in numbers, and whose international school options are far fewer than in the centre of the country. We teach Cambridge and IB live across the north, in whichever hours suit.

Challenges Haifa & the North families face

Why Haifa & the North families choose Smartious

The national framework applies in the north: education is compulsory under the Compulsory Education Law of 1949 and its amendments, from age three to fifteen inclusive or until ten years of schooling are completed, and home education is permitted by annual permit from the Ministry of Education. The Director General's directive holds that students of compulsory education age belong within the institutional educational framework; a permit runs for one school year only; and an approved child must meet the standards set by the educational system. In practice the Ministry approves the great majority of requests, and policy since 2009 has allowed home education where the family fulfils state requirements, which the Supreme Court noted applies to most applicants. Families have reported Ministry tribunals reviewing permissions, which we note so that families plan for renewal rather than assume permanence. Smartious is not a Ministry of Education recognised institution, issues no Israeli qualification and does not teach toward the Bagrut.

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

Live online via Smartious LMS across our full teaching day, with every session recorded.

Haifa is built around the Technion and a major engineering, research and technology sector, alongside the principal port and petrochemical complex, with the Krayot and Galilee beyond — a strongly academic and multilingual region with far fewer international school options than the centre. Israel runs IST (UTC+2), moving to IDT (UTC+3) in summer.

Family situations we work with

Haifa & the North communities and nearby areas

Carmel Centre · Neve Shaanan · Krayot · Nesher · Tirat Carmel · Nahariya · the Galilee

Common questions from Haifa & the North families

Our child wants engineering — what should they take?

Cambridge A-Level Mathematics, Further Mathematics and Physics, with Computer Science or Chemistry as a fourth depending on the target course. It is the most common request we get from this city and the set we teach most.

Is there international schooling in Haifa?

Far less than in the centre of the country. Live delivery reaches Haifa, the Krayot and the Galilee identically.

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