Online School & Homeschool in La Romana & the Southeast

Online school and international curriculum in La Romana

For La Romana and southeastern families — a resort economy of international scale beside a sugar industry, and one school map that serves neither.

Live online Cambridge IGCSE, Cambridge A-Level, Pearson Edexcel International, IB Diploma Programme, and American Curriculum with Advanced Placement (AP) for La Romana and southeastern families. The province carries an unusual mix: Casa de Campo and the resort and residential economy around it, drawing an international owner and management community; the sugar industry and free-zone manufacturing that built the city; a cruise terminal and port; and the tourism belt running east to Bayahíbe. Santo Domingo is around ninety minutes west. International schooling locally is minimal. Smartious teaches Cambridge and IB live to the southeast.

Challenges La Romana & the Southeast families face

Minimal international schooling for a province with an international resort and residential community.
Santo Domingo is around ninety minutes west.
A resort and residential economy whose owner community is internationally mobile.
We could not identify a specific Dominican framework for home education.
Time zone: the southeast shares AST (UTC-4) with no daylight saving.

Why La Romana & the Southeast families choose Smartious

The complete option in a province with almost none: Identical live delivery in La Romana and Santo Domingo, without the drive west.
Continuity for an internationally mobile owner community: Casa de Campo households move between countries; the curriculum and examination board stay constant.
Business and economics for a resort and trading economy: Cambridge A-Level Economics, Business and Accounting suit the families who run the southeast.
Seven hours, not nine: Dominican mornings and very early afternoons both land in our teaching day.
Honest about the legal gap: We could not identify a specific Dominican home-education framework and say so.

The national picture applies in the southeast: educación básica is compulsory under Ley 66-97 with MINERD as the authority, article 63.2 of the Constitution gives the family the right to choose the type of education for its children, and we could not identify a specific Dominican regulatory framework for home education — a silence we decline to read as permission or prohibition. Confirm with MINERD directly. Internationally mobile resort and residential families who remain registered elsewhere follow their country of residence's framework, a question for their own advisers. Smartious is not a MINERD-authorised institution and is not a US-accredited school issuing an American diploma.

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

Live online via Smartious LMS on a fixed seven-hour offset, landing in the Dominican morning or very early afternoon, with every session recorded.

La Romana carries Casa de Campo and its international resort and residential community alongside the sugar industry, free-zone manufacturing, a cruise terminal and the Bayahíbe tourism belt — with minimal local international schooling and Santo Domingo ninety minutes west. The DR runs AST (UTC-4), seven hours behind Nairobi.

Family situations we work with

Casa de Campo resort, residential, and management families.
Sugar industry and free-zone manufacturing households.
Cruise terminal, port, and marine-services families.
Tourism businesses along the Bayahíbe coast.
Students in the tanda vespertina with mornings free.

La Romana & the Southeast communities and nearby areas

La Romana · Casa de Campo · Bayahíbe · San Pedro de Macorís · Higüey · Boca de Yuma · the southeastern coast

Common questions from La Romana & the Southeast families

Is there international schooling in La Romana?

Minimal, with Santo Domingo around ninety minutes west. Live delivery reaches the southeast identically.

We are based at Casa de Campo part of the year — whose rules apply?

Your country of residence rather than where you spend a season. Where that line falls for your household is a question for your own advisers; the teaching works identically either way.

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