Online School & Homeschool in Puerto Plata, Sosúa & Cabarete

Online school and international curriculum in Puerto Plata and Sosúa

For Puerto Plata, Sosúa and Cabarete families — a European community settled here for forty years, still without an international school.

Live online Cambridge IGCSE, Cambridge A-Level, Pearson Edexcel International, IB Diploma Programme, and American Curriculum with Advanced Placement (AP) for north coast families. Sosúa and Cabarete host one of the longest-settled European and North American resident communities in the Caribbean — German, Swiss, Italian, Canadian and American families, many of them second and third generation, alongside the watersports economy that made Cabarete internationally known and the tourism, port and cruise business at Puerto Plata. The community is decades old and there is still no international school on the coast. Smartious teaches Cambridge and IB live to the north.

Challenges Puerto Plata, Sosúa & Cabarete families face

A decades-old international resident community with no international school on the coast.
Families spread from Puerto Plata through Sosúa to Cabarete rather than clustered anywhere.
European heritage families often want a language kept that no local school offers.
We could not identify a specific Dominican framework for home education.
Time zone: the north coast shares AST (UTC-4) with no daylight saving.

Why Puerto Plata, Sosúa & Cabarete families choose Smartious

German, Italian and French alongside the core: A coast settled by European families for decades can run Cambridge German, Italian or French beside the English-medium track — and those universities read the record routinely.
The complete option on a coast with none: Identical live delivery from Puerto Plata to Río San Juan, without relocation.
Marine and environmental science that fit the place: Cabarete's watersports economy and the north coast make good ground for Cambridge Biology and Geography.
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 on the north coast: 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. We decline to read that silence in either direction and would send families to MINERD. One point matters especially here: European resident families who remain registered in Germany, Switzerland, Italy or elsewhere follow that country's framework, and those differ sharply from each other — Germany prohibits home education outright while others regulate it. Which applies to a particular household turns on residence and is 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 north coast 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.

Sosúa and Cabarete host one of the longest-settled European and North American resident communities in the Caribbean, alongside the watersports economy and the port and cruise business at Puerto Plata — a community decades old with still no international school on the coast. The DR runs AST (UTC-4), seven hours behind Nairobi.

Family situations we work with

German, Swiss, Italian, Canadian and American resident families, often long-settled.
Watersports, kitesurfing, and adventure-tourism businesses at Cabarete.
Hotel, port, and cruise-terminal households at Puerto Plata.
Remote-work families drawn to the north coast.
Students in the tanda vespertina with mornings free.

Puerto Plata, Sosúa & Cabarete communities and nearby areas

Puerto Plata · Sosúa · Cabarete · Cofresí · Río San Juan · Luperón · Santiago road

Common questions from Puerto Plata, Sosúa & Cabarete families

Can our children keep German or Italian?

Yes, and many north coast families do. Cambridge German, Italian or French runs alongside the English-medium core, and those university systems read the resulting record routinely.

We are German or Swiss residents spending most of the year here — whose rules apply?

Your country of residence, and those frameworks differ sharply — Germany prohibits home education outright, others regulate it. Where the residency line falls for your household is a question for your own advisers.

Is there international schooling on the north coast?

None. The community has been here for decades and the schooling has not followed. Live delivery reaches the whole coast identically.

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