Private schooling options

The best choice for expat families?

Private schooling options

With the conditions of public schools, and when having the means, parents prefer to send their children to private schools. Many of them cater either for religious or expatriate families and all of them are quite expensive (around US$40,000 per year).

When looking for an international school, there is one thing to keep in mind. Most of them have been founded by different international companies and therefore, employees of these companies have priority registration and it may be cheaper or even fully paid for them.

This also means that you should ask to your company whether they have an agreement with some school and what do you need to pay. Due to the very high price of education most expats ensure they negotiate a percentage of schooling costs are paid for by their employer. Bear in mind children of ambassadors have priority in some schools as well.  Also, most international schools in Angola are in Luanda, the capital city.

Lessons are taught during the day. Usually, there are also extracurricular activities and class sizes are smaller than the average Angolan school. Angolan law requires international schools to enroll also local students but since tuition is around US$40,000, often they are the children of high government officials.

The curricula of these schools tend to follow the model from the U.S., UK, Europe or Australia/New Zealand and multiple languages are taught (usually Portuguese and the language of the country the school is following, French, English, etc.).

Some of these schools provide accreditation for the international baccalaureate (IB) exams. There are different accrediting bodies for schools in Angola such as CoIS , The European Council of International Schools  (ECIS) and the Independent Schools Association of Southern Africa  (ISASA).

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