Online School & Homeschool in Zahle & the Bekaa

Online school and international curriculum in Zahle and the Bekaa

For Zahle and Bekaa families — Lebanon's wine and farming valley, an hour over the mountain from any international school.

Live online Cambridge IGCSE, Cambridge A-Level, Pearson Edexcel International, IB Diploma Programme, and American Curriculum with Advanced Placement (AP) for Zahle and Bekaa families. The valley is Lebanon's agricultural heartland — vineyards and a wine industry with an international reputation, intensive farming, food processing and agro-industry — spread across towns from Zahle north through Baalbek and south toward the Litani. It is a substantial economy with almost no international school provision, and Beirut is an hour over the mountain. Live delivery reaches the whole valley, and Lebanon sits within an hour of our teaching clock all year.

Challenges Zahle & the Bekaa families face

Almost no international school provision across the valley.
Beirut is an hour over the mountain, and its tier is priced for a different market.
Families spread across towns from Zahle to Baalbek rather than clustered.
We could not verify Lebanon's position on parental home education.
Time zone: one hour behind us in winter and exactly level in summer.

Why Zahle & the Bekaa families choose Smartious

Biology and chemistry for a wine and farming valley: Cambridge A-Level Biology and Chemistry feed agronomy, food science and oenology directly — the disciplines this valley's own economy runs on.
Reaches the whole valley: Zahle, Chtaura, Baalbek and the surrounding towns get identical live teaching without a mountain crossing.
French kept as an examined subject: Cambridge French alongside the English-medium core, which suits both the local francophone tradition and French university routes.
Almost no timezone at all: One hour behind in winter, level in summer.
Honest about the legal gap: We could not verify Lebanon's home-education position and say so.

The national picture applies in the Bekaa: education is compulsory and administered by MEHE, private schools operate under ministry licensing, and we could not verify Lebanon's position on parental home education against a primary instrument. We decline to read that silence in either direction — confirm with MEHE. Smartious is not a MEHE-licensed school, issues no Lebanese qualification and does not teach toward the Lebanese Baccalaureate. Our arrangement is live international teaching alongside a Lebanese school enrolment.

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

Live online via Smartious LMS, effectively across our whole teaching day given the near-zero offset, with every session recorded — which suits agricultural seasons.

The Bekaa is Lebanon's agricultural heartland — vineyards and a wine industry with an international reputation, intensive farming, food processing and agro-industry — spread across towns from Zahle to Baalbek, with almost no international school provision and Beirut an hour over the mountain. Lebanon runs EET (UTC+2), moving to EEST (UTC+3) in summer.

Family situations we work with

Vineyard, wine production and viticulture families.
Intensive farming, food processing and agro-industry households.
Commercial and professional families across the valley towns.
Students aiming at agronomy, food science or oenology.
Families who would otherwise consider relocating for schooling.

Zahle & the Bekaa communities and nearby areas

Zahle · Chtaura · Baalbek · Rayak · Kefraya · Anjar · the Bekaa towns

Common questions from Zahle & the Bekaa families

Our child wants oenology or agronomy — what should they take?

Cambridge A-Level Biology and Chemistry with Mathematics or Geography, planned backward from the target university from IGCSE onward. Both are the standard entry route into those disciplines.

Is there international schooling in the Bekaa?

Almost none. Beirut is an hour over the mountain. Live delivery reaches Zahle, Chtaura, Baalbek and the valley towns identically.

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