Online School & Homeschool in Ljubljana

Online school and homeschool in Ljubljana

For Ljubljana families — live Cambridge delivery in a capital where home education is a right, and the annual assessment is the part nobody explains.

Live online Cambridge IGCSE, Cambridge A-Level, Pearson Edexcel International, IB Diploma Programme, and American Curriculum with Advanced Placement (AP) for Ljubljana families. Ljubljana holds Slovenia's corporate, tech, and pharmaceutical centre, its diplomatic community, and essentially all of the country's international schooling — the British International School of Ljubljana, QSI, and the long-established international department at Danila Kumar. It is also a city an hour from three borders, which is why so many families here are internationally mobile. Slovenian law is unusually generous at the front door: education at home is framed as a right, exercised by written notification to the school where the child is enrolled, with no reasons required and no permission issued. What follows that notification is the part families are rarely told about clearly, and we set it out in full.

Challenges Ljubljana families face

The international tier is small and concentrated in the capital, with the strongest entry points filling.
Home education is a right by notification — but the child is assessed at the end of every school year by the enrolling school, in Slovene, against the national curriculum.
Failure at the re-assessment in grades 1-8 means returning to a public or private school the following year.
The notification deadline falls in mid-August and cannot be exercised mid-year.
Time zone: Slovenia runs CET (UTC+1) / CEST (UTC+2 summer) — 1-2 hours behind Nairobi EAT, so live teaching lands inside the Slovenian school day.

Why Ljubljana families choose Smartious

The annual assessment planned, not discovered: Slovenia's right to home education comes with a year-end assessment at the enrolling school in Slovene, and a hard consequence for failing it. We plan that calendar beside the Cambridge one from enrolment.
The Cambridge track beside a small tier: Live small-group teaching from USD 5,076 a year — the alternative, the waitlist bridge, or the supplement beside an existing enrolment.
Built for a three-border capital: Ljubljana, Vienna, Zagreb, or Milan next — the curriculum, teachers, and examination board stay constant across the move.
The window after basic school: Nine years of basic school ending around fifteen means the A-Level years fall outside the framework, annual assessment included.
Timezone that lands in the school day: Ljubljana is 1-2 hours behind Nairobi EAT.

Slovenia is unusual in Central Europe: the Basic School Act devotes a whole part to izobraževanje na domu and frames it as a right rather than a permission. Parents notify the osnovna šola where the child is enrolled in writing — by mid-August under the amended Act, and for each school year separately — giving the child's name, the place where the education will happen, and who will teach. No reasons need be given and the school issues no permission or administrative decision. What the law does require is substance: the child must attain at least an educational standard equivalent to the compulsory public-school programme, and their knowledge is assessed at the end of every school year by the enrolling school, in Slovene, against the national curriculum — with the reform equalising home-educated pupils with school pupils having widened the subjects assessed. The consequence of failure is real: a pupil in grades 1-8 who does not pass the re-assessment must continue in a public or private school the following year, while a grade 9 pupil may repeat or resit. Home-educated pupils also sit the national assessment, and the school issues the year-end certificate as a public document, noting home education. We plan that whole calendar beside the Cambridge one — Slovene-language preparation included — and we never suggest we can carry or waive the assessment, which is the family's obligation with their school.

Premium tier includes optional in-person home tuition supplementation for Ljubljana families during examination preparation periods, subject to associate teacher availability.

Live online via Smartious LMS. Classes land inside the Ljubljana school day given the 1-2 hour offset, with every session recorded for unlimited rewatch.

Ljubljana is Slovenia's tech, pharmaceutical, and corporate centre, an hour from three borders, holding essentially all the country's international schooling — in a system where education at home is a right exercised by notification, backed by a year-end assessment at the enrolling school. Slovenia runs CET (UTC+1) / CEST (UTC+2), 1-2 hours behind Nairobi EAT.

Family situations we work with

Tech, pharmaceutical, and corporate international families in the capital.
Diplomatic and institutional families on rotation.
Families outside the international tier's fees or capacity.
Slovenian families exercising the right to education at home who want an externally examined track behind it.
Students past basic school running the full A-Level phase.
Returning diaspora families keeping international curriculum continuity.

Ljubljana communities and nearby areas

Ljubljana centre · Bežigrad · Vič · Šiška · Rudnik · Domžale · Kamnik

Common questions from Ljubljana families

Is homeschooling legal in Slovenia?

Yes — and unusually, the Basic School Act frames it as a right. Parents notify the school where the child is enrolled in writing, by mid-August under the amended Act and for each school year separately, without giving reasons; the school issues no permission. The obligations come afterwards: an equivalent educational standard, and assessment at the end of every school year by that school, in Slovene.

What happens if our child does not pass the annual assessment?

In grades 1-8, a pupil who does not pass the re-assessment must continue their basic education in a public or private school the following year. In grade 9 they may repeat the year or sit a resit. It is the strictest part of an otherwise generous framework, and it is why we plan the assessment calendar from day one.

Can Smartious take over the assessment?

No — the assessment is conducted by the school where your child is enrolled, and it is your obligation with them. What we provide is the academic spine: live teaching, continuous assessment of our own, documented progress, Slovene-language preparation planned into the year, and external Cambridge examinations alongside.

How does Smartious compare with the British International School or QSI?

They are established campuses with in-person culture and a local peer group we cannot replicate. Smartious runs live small-group teaching from USD 5,076 a year — the supplement, the bridge, or the alternative for families outside their fees or capacity.

Where do Ljubljana students sit Cambridge examinations?

At authorised centres confirmed per family per session, with regional options where local capacity is limited.

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