School Management System in Lebanon
Run Lebanese private, francophone, and international schools on one open-source platform that speaks Arabic, French, and English natively. Built for Mission Laïque écoles, American international schools in Beirut, and Arabic-curriculum institutions navigating Lebanese Baccalauréat tracking, MEHE reporting, and the USD/LBP dual-currency reality.
A school management system in Lebanon is software that runs admissions, attendance, gradebooks, fee collection, and Ministry of Education reporting for Lebanese private, francophone, and international schools. OpenEduCat handles the Lebanese Baccalauréat program, MEHE-compatible report formats, Arabic-French-English trilingual UI, and USD/LBP dual-currency billing that schools across Beirut, Tripoli, Saida, and Zahlé need every term.
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Arabic + French + English Trilingual UI
Native right-to-left Arabic alongside French and English, switchable per user. Teachers, parents, and admins each pick their language without breaking the same record. Critical for Mission Laïque schools running French primary tracks with Arabic civics, and American schools handling Arabic-as-a-second-language modules.
Lebanese Baccalauréat Program Tracking
Configure SE, SV, SG, and LH tracks with the exact subject weightings used by Lebanon's official Baccalauréat. Track Brevet (Grade 9) progression, mock exam scoring, and final coefficients per stream. Generate transcripts that map cleanly to MEHE's grading scale (0-20) for university applications inside Lebanon or abroad.
MEHE Report Formats Built In
Pre-loaded templates for Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MEHE) end-of-term reports, attendance logs, and enrolment statistics. CRDP (Centre for Educational Research and Development) curriculum codes are mapped to subjects so inspector visits and annual returns take hours, not weeks.
USD / LBP Dual-Currency Billing
Issue the same invoice in USD and LBP with live or admin-set exchange rates updated daily. Accept payments in either currency, split tuition installments across both, and reconcile against bank accounts in both denominations. Designed for the post-2019 economic reality where many schools price in USD but collect in lira.
Hijri + Gregorian Calendar
Dual calendar view for academic schedules, Ramadan timetables, and religious holiday tracking. Switch parent-portal date display per family preference. Bus routes, exam scheduling, and attendance all respect both calendars without manual conversion.
AEFE + American + IB School Awareness
Pre-built structures for AEFE-network French schools, US-curriculum schools (SAT, AP prep), British IGCSE, and IB World Schools. Many Lebanese international schools run two parallel sections under one administration.
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Juggling MEHE Arabic-curriculum reports, French-track gradebooks, and parents who pay tuition in dollars but receive salary in lira — usually across three disconnected spreadsheets and a 15-year-old desktop app.
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One platform handles trilingual report cards, Lebanese Baccalauréat tracking, MEHE submissions, and USD/LBP invoices. Bursars cut reconciliation time per term, and parents see clean dual-currency statements in the portal.
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Foreign-curriculum schools still need MEHE recognition for graduating Lebanese citizens, plus IB or College Board reporting for university placement — and they bill 100% in USD while staff are paid partly in LBP.
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Run IB/AP gradebooks alongside MEHE-compliant equivalency reports from the same student record. Payroll and fees both operate in dual currency, and the admissions office can pull AEFE-style transcripts on demand.
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Is the trilingual UI (Arabic, French, English) genuinely usable, or just machine-translated?
OpenEduCat ships with human-reviewed Arabic, French, and English translations across the core SIS modules. Right-to-left layout is native, not a CSS hack — menus, forms, and PDF report cards render correctly in Arabic. AEFE-style French primary terminology (CP, CE1, CE2, CM1, CM2, 6ème) is pre-mapped, and you can override any label per school.
Can it produce the reports MEHE inspectors actually ask for?
Yes. The MEHE reporting pack covers end-of-term grade sheets, attendance registers, enrolment statistics, and Brevet/Baccalauréat result summaries in inspector-ready formats. Subject codes align with CRDP (Centre for Educational Research and Development) curriculum references, so submissions match the official framework without manual translation.
How does Lebanese Baccalauréat tracking work — including SE, SV, SG, LH streams?
You define each stream (Sciences Expérimentales, Sciences de la Vie, Sociologie & Économie, Lettres & Humanités) with the official subject coefficients. Grades are recorded on the 0-20 scale, mock exams roll into a predictive final, and transcripts include both the per-subject and coefficient-weighted totals — formatted for direct submission to MEHE and for university applications in Lebanon, France, and abroad.
How does billing handle USD vs. LBP given Lebanon's exchange-rate volatility?
Every invoice displays both USD and LBP at the rate of the day. Set the exchange rate manually each morning (most schools do) or pull from a feed. Parents can pay one installment in dollars and another in lira; the system reconciles each currency against its own bank account and produces clean ledgers in both — the same workflow Lebanese schools built in Excel, just automated and audit-ready.
Where is the data hosted? Lebanon has no major local datacenters.
OpenEduCat is open-source, so you choose. Options: self-host on a Beirut VPS, host on AWS Bahrain or Frankfurt for low latency, or use OpenEduCat's managed cloud. Many Lebanese schools pick Frankfurt or Bahrain for reliability during local power and connectivity issues, with nightly backups copied to a second region.
What's the total cost — in USD or LBP — for a school of 800 students?
Community Edition: $0 in software license fees forever. Enterprise Edition is priced per student in USD with annual billing, payable in USD or equivalent LBP. Implementation (data migration, training, MEHE template setup) is one-time and quoted separately. Compared with Skoolee or per-seat international SIS platforms, total three-year cost is usually 40-60% lower.
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