Online School & Homeschool in Lima

Online school and international curriculum in Lima

For Lima families — Cambridge and IB taught live in the morning, which for a turno tarde student is the free half of the day.

Live online Cambridge IGCSE, Cambridge A-Level, Pearson Edexcel International, IB Diploma Programme, and American Curriculum with Advanced Placement (AP) for Lima families. Lima carries Peru's corporate and financial weight, the mining sector's head offices, the Callao port complex, and a long-established international school tier — Markham, San Silvestre, Roosevelt, Newton, the Franco-Peruano and German schools — with a substantial IB presence and fees at the top of the Peruvian market. Educación básica regular is compulsory in Peru, so our role is alongside a school rather than instead of one. We teach from Nairobi, eight hours ahead, so our classes land in the Peruvian morning.

Challenges Lima families face

International school fees in Lima sit at the top of the Peruvian market, with competitive places.
Educación básica regular is compulsory, so the school carries the obligation.
We teach eight hours ahead, so our classes land in the Peruvian morning, not the afternoon.
Private institutions operate with authorisation through the UGEL and DRE structure, and Smartious is not one.
Time zone: Peru runs PET (UTC-5) with no daylight saving — a fixed eight-hour gap behind Nairobi.

Why Lima families choose Smartious

Morning classes, which is the point in Peru: We teach eight hours ahead, so our block lands in the Peruvian morning — the free half of the day for every student in turno tarde.
Cambridge A-Levels in an IB-weighted market: Lima is well served for the IB and thinner on A-Levels — which matters for anyone applying through UCAS.
A fee gap against the top of the Peruvian market: Live small-group teaching from USD 5,076 a year.
What we are, stated plainly: Smartious is not an authorised Peruvian institution. We work alongside a school that is.
Spanish kept alongside: Cambridge Spanish runs beside the English-medium core, protecting Peruvian and Spanish university routes.

Peruvian education law is set by the Ley General de Educación N° 28044, with MINEDU as the national authority and delivery administered through the regional Direcciones Regionales de Educación and the local Unidades de Gestión Educativa Local. Educación básica regular — inicial, primaria, and secundaria — is compulsory, and families should confirm the current age boundaries with MINEDU or their UGEL rather than take them from a provider's summary. Two provisions are worth stating factually because families encounter them. Ley 28044 recognises educación a distancia as a modality of the education system applicable across levels; whether and how that applies to a particular child, and which providers are recognised within it, is a matter for MINEDU and the UGEL rather than for us, and we do not present it as a homeschooling route or suggest that Smartious operates inside it. And Peru operates Educación Básica Alternativa for people who did not complete their studies at the corresponding age, which has its own eligibility rules and is not a parental-choice route for a school-age child. We are not aware of an established parental-choice home-education route in Peruvian law, and we phrase it that way rather than asserting a categorical prohibition — confirm with MINEDU and your UGEL. Private institutions operate with authorisation through the UGEL and DRE structure; Smartious is not an authorised Peruvian institution and works alongside a school that is.

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

Live online via Smartious LMS in the Peruvian morning. With a fixed eight-hour gap and no daylight saving on either side, a 07:00-10:00 Peruvian block sits in our normal late-afternoon teaching hours every week of the year, with all sessions recorded.

Lima holds Peru's corporate and financial centre, the mining sector's head offices, the Callao port complex, and a long-established international school tier with a substantial IB presence at premium fees. Peru runs PET (UTC-5) with no daylight saving, eight hours behind Nairobi, so our teaching lands in the Peruvian morning.

Family situations we work with

Corporate, financial, and mining head-office families outside the international tier's fees.
Students in turno tarde whose mornings are free.
Port, logistics, and trade families around Callao.
Diplomatic and international-organisation households.
Families wanting Cambridge A-Levels in a market with a strong IB presence.
Students targeting UK, American, Spanish, or Peruvian universities.

Lima communities and nearby areas

Miraflores · San Isidro · La Molina · Surco · Barranco · Callao · Asia and the southern beaches

Common questions from Lima families

Is homeschooling legal in Peru?

Educación básica regular is compulsory under the Ley General de Educación N° 28044, and we are not aware of an established parental-choice home-education route. We put it in those terms rather than asserting a flat prohibition — confirm with MINEDU and your UGEL. Structured study alongside a school enrolment is unrestricted.

What about educación a distancia?

Ley 28044 recognises it as a modality of the education system across levels. Whether it applies to a particular child, and which providers are recognised within it, is a matter for MINEDU and the UGEL. We state it factually and do not claim to operate inside it.

Eight hours — how does the timetable work?

Our classes land in the Peruvian morning, not the afternoon. For a student in turno tarde, whose school runs in the afternoon, that is the free half of the day. After-school and morning blocks are both available, since we run two teaching teams in different time zones.

Is Smartious an authorised Peruvian institution?

No, and we say so plainly. Private institutions operate with authorisation through the UGEL and DRE structure. We work alongside a Peruvian school that holds it, and teach Cambridge, Edexcel, IB and AP qualifications.

Guides for families in Peru

What parents say

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