Online School & Homeschool in Rio de Janeiro

Online school and Cambridge tutoring in Rio de Janeiro

For Rio and Macaé families — the pre-salt capital, where an internationally recruited energy workforce meets a short list of schools.

Live online Cambridge IGCSE, Cambridge A-Level, Pearson Edexcel International, IB Diploma Programme, and American Curriculum with Advanced Placement (AP) for Rio de Janeiro families. Rio is Brazil's energy capital — Petrobras and the international pre-salt operators, the subsea and oilfield-services sector strung north to Macaé, and the engineers and managers recruited from around the world who come with it — alongside creative industries, a large diplomatic and consular presence, and long-established British and American schools whose places are competitive and whose fees are high. Brazilian law is settled on educating outside school, so we work alongside your school. The six-hour offset puts our classes in the Brazilian morning or early afternoon.

Challenges Rio de Janeiro families face

A short list of international schools with competitive places and high fees.
Energy postings arrive and depart on project timelines rather than admission cycles.
Macaé and the offshore corridor are well north of the city's schools.
Educação básica is compulsory from four to seventeen, and there is no right to home education.
Time zone: Rio runs BRT (UTC-3), six hours behind Nairobi with no daylight saving.

Why Rio de Janeiro families choose Smartious

The energy-rotation case, run in eight countries already: Stavanger, Baku, Hassi Messaoud, Cabinda, Takoradi, Fier, Esbjerg — and now the pre-salt. One live pathway across every posting.
Reaches Macaé and the northern corridor: The offshore-services belt sits well north of Rio's schools; live delivery removes the distance entirely.
Geoscience and engineering depth: Cambridge A-Level Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, and Geography — the spine an energy workforce's children aim at.
A workable clock: Six hours, fixed — Brazilian mornings and early afternoons both land in our normal teaching day.
Alongside the national route, not instead of it: Brazilian law is settled; your school keeps the enrolment and the ENEM track.

The national framework applies in Rio: educação básica is compulsory from four to seventeen, and the STF fixed in Tema 822 that there is no subjective public right to home education, which does not exist in Brazilian legislation — creatable only by federal law that Congress has not enacted. Our arrangement is therefore supplementary at every age: the school carries the enrolment and the national track, and the Cambridge or IB track runs alongside. For internationally posted energy families the arrangement also travels, continuing unchanged to the next basin — the North Sea, West Africa, or the Gulf — with only the local framework changing around it. Smartious is not an authorised Brazilian school.

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

Live online via Smartious LMS on a fixed six-hour offset, landing in the Brazilian morning or early afternoon, with every session recorded — built for offshore rosters and project timelines.

Rio is Brazil's energy capital — Petrobras and the international pre-salt operators, the subsea and oilfield-services sector running north to Macaé, creative industries, and a large consular presence — with a short list of established international schools at competitive fees. Brazil runs BRT (UTC-3), six hours behind Nairobi.

Family situations we work with

Petrobras, pre-salt operator, and oilfield-services engineering families.
Subsea and offshore-services households in Macaé and the northern corridor.
Diplomatic, consular, and international-organisation families.
Creative-industry and professional households outside the international tier's fees.
Students targeting UK, Portuguese, American, or Norwegian universities.

Rio de Janeiro communities and nearby areas

Barra da Tijuca · Botafogo · Gávea · Niterói · Macaé · Cabo Frio · Petrópolis

Common questions from Rio de Janeiro families

We are on a pre-salt rotation — does the schooling follow us?

Yes: the same curriculum, teachers, and examination board continue to the next basin anywhere in the world, with examinations sat at authorised centres wherever the family is. It is the case we already run for families in Stavanger, Baku, Cabinda, and Takoradi.

We are based in Macaé rather than Rio — does that work?

Identically. The offshore-services belt is well north of the city's schools, and live delivery removes that distance entirely.

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What parents say

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