School Management System in Palestine

It is a real localization. The entire UI is translated into Modern Standard Arabic with full right-to-left layout — forms, reports, PDFs, email and SMS templates, and printed certificates all render correctly. Arabic numerals, Hijri dates, and currency formats are handled natively. Education-specific terminology has been audited by native Arabic speakers among our implementation partners, so distinctions that machine translation tends to flatten (for example صف / فصل / مرحلة for grade, classroom, and stage) are correct. Any user can switch their account to Arabic while a colleague on the same system continues in English, which matches how UNRWA, PA Ministry, and private East Jerusalem schools actually operate.

Yes, with an important distinction. We provide two separate sets of configurable templates because these are two separate reporting lines — the Palestinian Ministry of Education for PA government schools, and the UNRWA Education Programme for agency schools. PA Ministry templates cover enrollment registers, attendance summaries, term grade submissions, and Tawjihi transcripts in layouts aligned to current practice. UNRWA templates cover the agency's own enrollment, attendance, and academic reporting formats used by field offices. Both template sets are editable, because formats evolve and individual directorates or field offices sometimes request small adjustments. We do not claim a certified, automated submission pipeline to either system — we provide flexible, accurate, locally adapted templates that your administrators can submit through normal channels.

Tawjihi specifically. We model the Palestinian Tawjihi (الثانوية العامة) structure directly: the literary stream (الفرع الأدبي) and scientific stream (الفرع العلمي), subject weightings used in the certificate calculation, the two-year grade 11–12 progression, and the transcript layout Palestinian universities expect. This is distinct from the Jordanian Tawjihi, the Lebanese Baccalauréat, or generic IB tracking — and it is also distinct from the broader Arab Baccalaureate label that some international products use. If your school runs a parallel international track (IB, American, or British) alongside Tawjihi, the system can manage both in the same student record.

Yes, with the right deployment. The recommended setup for Gaza schools, and for West Bank schools in areas with unstable infrastructure, is an on-site server with UPS/battery backup, so administrative work continues through grid cuts. Attendance, grading, and fee receipts can be captured on tablets or laptops from local cache, then synced to the central database when connectivity returns. We design around the operational reality: power and internet outages are not edge cases in Gaza, and the system is built so that administration does not stop when the grid does.

OpenEduCat is self-hosted by design, which is what makes it workable for both UNRWA and PA Ministry contexts — but the answer differs by school type. UNRWA, as a UN agency, applies its own data-handling and sovereignty rules to student information; the software can be deployed on infrastructure UNRWA approves (on-premise at the school or field office, or on a hosting partner that meets agency requirements), so the data never leaves agency-controlled infrastructure. PA government and private schools operate under separate considerations and can deploy on-premise, with a Palestinian or regional hosting partner (Ramallah, Amman, and Dubai-based partners are all options), or on their own choice of cloud. We help you and your implementation partner pick a setup that matches your governing authority's rules, not the other way around.

Fees are configured per school in the school's operational currency, which in practice is usually ILS in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The system also supports JOD and EGP as primary or secondary currencies for schools and agencies that operate in them, and any invoice can display a reference amount in a second currency at an exchange rate you control. Installment plans, partial payments, and multi-currency receipts are supported, so a family paying part of the year's fees in ILS in-country and part in JOD via a relative in Amman reconciles cleanly on one ledger. For diaspora families paying from abroad, the system records the foreign-currency receipt and the converted local-currency credit on the same student account.