Online School & Homeschool in Manta & the Coast

Online school and international curriculum in Manta

For Manta and Manabí families — a global tuna industry and a coastal expat belt, four hours from the nearest international school.

Live online Cambridge IGCSE, Cambridge A-Level, Pearson Edexcel International, IB Diploma Programme, and American Curriculum with Advanced Placement (AP) for Manta and Manabí families. Manta runs one of the largest tuna fishing and processing complexes in the Americas, with a deep-water port, an international seafood trade, and the industrial and agro-processing economy of Manabí behind it — alongside a growing coastal expatriate and remote-work community strung along the beaches north and south. International schooling is in Quito and Guayaquil, hours away. Smartious teaches Cambridge and IB live to the coast in the Ecuadorian morning.

Challenges Manta & the Coast families face

No international schooling on the coast, with Quito and Guayaquil hours away.
A coastal expatriate community spread along the beaches rather than clustered near a campus.
Educación en casa and educación abierta are separate routes with different requirements.
We teach eight hours ahead, so our classes land in the Ecuadorian morning.
Time zone: Manta shares ECT (UTC-5) with no daylight saving.

Why Manta & the Coast families choose Smartious

The complete option on a coast with none: Identical live delivery in Manta and Quito — no relocation, no boarding decision.
Marine biology and environmental science that fit the place: A tuna and fishing economy on the Pacific makes unusually good context for Cambridge Biology and Geography and AP Environmental Science.
Reaches the beach communities: Bahía, Canoa, and Puerto López get identical live teaching without a commute.
Morning classes that fit the jornada vespertina: Our block lands in the Ecuadorian morning, free for every afternoon-shift student.
The regulation explained properly: Educación abierta and educación en casa set out separately, with what we are not stated plainly.

The national framework applies on the coast: educación en casa is a named modality regulated by Acuerdo Ministerial No. 0067-13-A and the 2023 acuerdos, treated as non-formal distance education under the family's exclusive responsibility, with schools prohibited from offering it as an ordinary modality or issuing promotions for it; educación abierta, through formal enrolment at an accredited Ecuadorian school with a distance programme, is a separate and often more practical route. The national curriculum is mandatory and recognition requires evaluation before the education system. Smartious is not an accredited Ecuadorian institution and does not provide educación en casa. Confirm your position with MINEDUC and your distrito educativo.

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

Live online via Smartious LMS in the Ecuadorian morning on a fixed eight-hour offset, with every session recorded.

Manta runs one of the largest tuna fishing and processing complexes in the Americas with a deep-water port and an international seafood trade, alongside Manabí's agro-industry and a growing coastal expatriate community — with international schooling hours away in Quito and Guayaquil. Ecuador runs ECT (UTC-5), eight hours behind Nairobi.

Family situations we work with

Tuna, fishing, and seafood-processing business families.
Port, shipping, and export households.
Coastal expatriate, surf, and remote-work communities.
Agro-industrial families across Manabí.
Students in jornada vespertina with mornings free.

Manta & the Coast communities and nearby areas

Manta · Montecristi · Portoviejo · Bahía de Caráquez · Puerto López · Canoa · Salinas

Common questions from Manta & the Coast families

Is there international schooling in Manta?

None — the tier is in Quito and Guayaquil, hours away. Live online delivery reaches the whole coast identically.

Our child is interested in marine biology — what should they take?

Cambridge A-Level Biology and Chemistry with Geography or Mathematics, planned backward from the target university from IGCSE onward.

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