A Pucallpa child does not need a coding academy across the Ucayali to learn to program. This page sets out what primaria in Ucayali does and does not teach about computers, what a family needs at home for a live class, which of our courses fits a child of six, eight, ten or twelve, and a first data project in which children draw a picture of their own city from a real INEI survey file.
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In one paragraph
Modern Age Coders teaches coding to children aged 6 to 12 in Pucallpa, Peru, live online and in English. Six and seven year olds build games with Scratch blocks, eight year olds can script Roblox worlds, and from about nine children type real Python. A real mentor leads every class over live video, either with fifteen to twenty children of a similar age or with your child alone, on the days and at the hours the family chooses. Children learn to reason a problem out for themselves rather than copy an answer.
Where Pucallpa children begin
Three first courses for children in Pucallpa
One for the youngest, one for game lovers and one for children ready to type. Your child can move from one to the next as they grow.
How big is Pucallpa, and which population figure is right?
Each figure is right for a different area. INEI counts the department, the province and the district in its 2025 census, but the last published count for the city itself is from 2017.
Pucallpa and Ucayali: four official counts, each for its own area
Area
People
Count and year
Pucallpa city (capital of Ucayali)
326,040
Census of 22 October 2017, people counted
Department of Ucayali
623,868
2025 census, all residents
Province of Coronel Portillo
470,664
2025 census, all residents
District of Callería
166,780
2025 census, all residents
The city row comes from table 1.9 of INEI's 2017 sociodemographic profile of Peru, which lists capital cities; the other three come from table 1 of the demographic indicators INEI released for its 2025 census, counted as at 15 September 2025. When we checked in November 2026 INEI had not released 2025 figures for cities. The four areas overlap, so we never add them up.
A city of several districts
The city of Pucallpa spreads beyond the district of Callería into Yarinacocha and Manantay, which is why the 2017 city count is so much larger than the 2025 count for Callería alone. When someone quotes "the population of Pucallpa", it is worth asking which of these areas they mean.
For a parent the useful point is simpler: there are a great many children in this city, and very few of them have a coding class within easy reach of home.
Why online fits a river city
A live class over video reaches a child by the Yarinacocha lagoon and a child near the Callería market at the same moment, with no motocarro ride in the afternoon heat or in a sudden downpour.
It also means a family that moves for work, between Pucallpa, Aguaytía or Lima, keeps the same mentor and the same class.
What you need at home
Can a child in Pucallpa take live coding classes from home?
Most families in Ucayali can now get online, but fewer have a computer. Here are INEI's figures for the department, and our honest advice on what a child really needs.
Connected homes and people in Ucayali against the national figure (per cent)
Measure
Ucayali 2015
Ucayali 2025
Peru 2025
Homes with internet service
9.7
50.2
56.8
Homes with at least one computer
23.1
21.2
33.9
People aged 6 and over who use the internet
31.3
75.4
81.1
Source: INEI, Compendio Estadístico Perú 2026, tomo 1, cuadros 11.5, 11.6 and 11.13, drawn from the Encuesta Nacional de Hogares (ENAHO). INEI writes decimals with a comma; we show a point. Choosing 2015 as the comparison year is ours.
Internet has spread fast, computers have not
In 2015 fewer than one Ucayali home in ten had an internet service. By 2025 it was one in two. Over the same ten years the share of homes with a computer barely moved, and was 21.2% in 2025, well under the national 33.9%.
So in many Pucallpa homes the internet arrives through a phone. That is fine for chatting and watching, and much harder for coding, where a child needs a bigger screen and, from about nine, a keyboard.
Our straight advice on devices
For Scratch, at six to eight, a tablet or a borrowed laptop is enough for the first months, because everything is done by dragging blocks. For Roblox scripting and for typed Python, a laptop or desktop with a keyboard is needed; a phone will not do.
If the family computer is shared, choose a class hour when it is free, and a headset helps a lot in a busy house. If there is no computer at all yet, tell us at the free class: we would rather say a course will be hard to follow than take a fee for one that is.
A steady connection matters more than a fast one. A live class is a video call plus a shared screen, so a home connection that holds a video call without freezing will usually hold one of our classes too. If the signal drops, the mentor waits, recaps and carries on; nobody is marked absent for a power cut.
What primaria covers
Do primaria schools in Pucallpa teach coding?
Not as a lesson of its own. Schools in Ucayali follow the national curriculum, the CNEB, which spreads digital skills across every area instead of giving them a timetable slot.
Hours a week in primaria for three areas, by grade (CNEB plan de estudios)
Area
1°
2°
3°
4°
5°
6°
Matemática
5
5
4
4
4
4
Comunicación
5
5
4
4
4
4
Inglés
2
2
3
3
3
3
Programming or computing
none
none
none
none
none
none
Taken from the primaria plan de estudios in MINEDU's national curriculum, the CNEB, as read in November 2026. The bottom row is our own reading of the full plan, in which no such area appears.
Digital skills, but no programs
Competency 28 of the CNEB is about getting along in virtual environments built with ICT, and the curriculum makes it transversal: every area is meant to use it, none owns it. It asks children to manage information and create digital objects, and it names no programming language.
A teacher can therefore meet the standard with slides, videos and online research, and many do. Writing a program is not required at any grade.
Where English already sits
The same plan gives Inglés two hours a week in 1° and 2° grado and three hours from 3° to 6°. So a Pucallpa child already meets English at school, a little each week.
Our classes add a different kind of English practice: listening to a mentor explain a step, then saying back what the program should do. It is spoken, practical and tied to something the child is building.
Grades are set by MINEDU's normative age, measured on 31 March each year: a child who is six on that date goes into 1° de primaria, and one who is eleven into 6°. MINEDU's ENLA 2025 assessment tested 4° de primaria in reading and maths, the two skills that a coding class quietly exercises every week. On 16 March 2026, the first day of the year's classes, MINEDU counted 6,225,000 students returning to 53,631 schools across Peru.
Six to twelve
Which coding class suits a child of 6, 8, 10 or 12?
Age is a guide, not a rule. The table shows where most Pucallpa children start; the free first class confirms it.
Where a Pucallpa child usually starts (our course ages)
Age
Usual grade
First course
A first project
6 and 7
1° and 2° primaria
Scratch programming
A parrot that flies when you press a key
7 to 9
2° to 4° primaria
Problem solving for kids, then Scratch
Puzzles first, then a maze game
8 to 11
From 3° primaria
Roblox game coding
An obby with moving platforms
9 to 12
4° to 6° primaria
Python and AI for Kids
Turtle drawings, a quiz, a pictogram
10 to 12
5° and 6° primaria
Maths through coding
Times tables and fractions checked by code
Course ages and projects are ours. Usual grades follow MINEDU's normative age at 31 March, so a child with a birthday late in the year may sit one grade off the row shown.
At six and seven
Short, lively classes in which nothing has to be typed. Children predict what a block will do, try it, and laugh when the cat walks off the screen. Reading is not yet needed beyond a few words.
At eight and nine
Children can follow longer plans, fix their own mistakes and use variables to keep a score. Many choose Roblox here, because they already know the game and want to change it.
At ten to twelve
Typing is now quick enough for Python. Children write programs that read data, make decisions and draw results, like the pictogram project below, and start to explain their code in their own words.
Taught in English
Are the classes in Spanish?
No. Every class is live, online and taught in English only. Please read this section before booking, because for some Pucallpa children it matters a lot.
English in Ucayali, by EF's measure
The 2025 edition of EF's English Proficiency Index gives Peru as a whole a score of 519, in its moderate band, and Lima city 555, in its high band. For the Ucayali region, which EF spells "Ukayali", it shows 458, in the low band. EF publishes no separate score for the city of Pucallpa.
Those scores come from adults who chose to take EF's test, so they say little about any single child. They do suggest that many Pucallpa children will be meeting spoken English mostly at school.
Who this suits, honestly
Children who follow simple spoken English, or who are keen to, do well: the mentor speaks slowly, shows every step on screen and waits for an answer. A child who replies half in Spanish is understood and given the English words.
A six year old with no English at all may find a whole class in English tiring. The free first class tells us quickly; if it is too soon, we will say so and suggest trying again in a few months.
Many parents see the English as the second gift of the class: an hour of building games is also an hour of listening and speaking. If that is what draws you, our page on learning coding and English together in Peru explains how mentors plan for it.
A real Pucallpa project
How many people in a Pucallpa survey are the same age as you?
Primaria children draw pictograms in maths: one picture stands for several things. Our ten to twelve year olds draw one with Python, from a real INEI file about Pucallpa, and learn why choosing the key changes the picture.
The data
INEI runs a survey of jobs in Peru's main cities, the Encuesta Permanente de Empleo Nacional, and publishes the answers as open data. Its EPEN Ciudades 2026 dataset is released on Peru's national open data platform with an ODC-By licence, the Open Data Commons one that asks only for attribution. We use its Pucallpa file for January, February and March 2026, saved as pucallpa-epen-2026-t1.csv, with 3,090 rows: one for each person in the homes INEI visited.
We read only one column, C208, which INEI's data dictionary describes as the person's age in completed years. The file has other columns about people's lives that a children's lesson has no business touching, and we never open them.
The question
Children love finding themselves in data. So we ask: in the homes INEI visited in Pucallpa, how many people were in their first ten years, like you? How many were teenagers? How many grandparents?
The program puts every person into a group of ten years (0 to 9, 10 to 19, and so on, with 80 and over as the last group) and then draws one star for every 100 people in each group.
Version 1: one star for every 100 peoplePython
import csv
groups = {}
with open("pucallpa-epen-2026-t1.csv", encoding="latin-1") as survey:
for person in csv.DictReader(survey):
if person["C208"] != "":
age = int(person["C208"])
band = min(age // 10 * 10, 80)
groups[band] = groups.get(band, 0) + 1
for band in sorted(groups):
print(band, "*" * (groups[band] // 100))
It prints: 0 *****, 10 *****, 20 ****, 30 ****, 40 ***, 50 **, 60 **, 70 *, and then 80 with nothing after it.
Two things look wrong to a careful child. The under-tens and the teenagers get five stars each, as if the groups were the same size, and the over-eighties get no stars at all, as if nobody that old lived in those homes. Both come from the key. The operator // keeps only whole hundreds and throws the rest away, so 503 and 584 both become 5, and 29 becomes 0.
A pictogram in a primaria textbook solves this in two ways: a smaller key, and half pictures for what is left over. Version 2 does both. The key becomes 50 people, and if the leftover, found with %, is at least half a key, the program adds a plus sign as a half star.
Version 2: a smaller key and a half symbolPython
import csv
groups = {}
with open("pucallpa-epen-2026-t1.csv", encoding="latin-1") as survey:
for person in csv.DictReader(survey):
if person["C208"] != "":
age = int(person["C208"])
band = min(age // 10 * 10, 80)
groups[band] = groups.get(band, 0) + 1
KEY = 50
print("Key: * = 50 people, + = about 25")
for band in sorted(groups):
count = groups[band]
picture = "*" * (count // KEY)
if count % KEY >= KEY // 2:
picture = picture + "+"
label = str(band) + " to " + str(band + 9)
if band == 80:
label = "80 and over"
print(label.ljust(12), picture, count)
It prints the key line, then: 0 to 9 ********** 503, 10 to 19 ***********+ 584, 20 to 29 ******** 421, 30 to 39 ********+ 434, 40 to 49 *******+ 390, 50 to 59 *****+ 288, 60 to 69 **** 220, 70 to 79 ** 123 and 80 and over + 29.
The same Pucallpa ages under two keys (our calculation from the INEI file)
Age group
People in the file
Stars, key 100
Stars, key 50 with halves
0 to 9
503
5
10
10 to 19
584
5
11 and a half
20 to 29
421
4
8
60 to 69
220
2
4
80 and over
29
0
a half
File: the Pucallpa part of INEI's EPEN Ciudades 2026, January to March 2026, from datosabiertos.gob.pe, licence ODC-By, credited to INEI. Every count and star in this table is our own work. 2,992 of the 3,090 rows give an age; 98 leave it blank and the program skips them. These are people in the sample of homes INEI visited, not a count of everyone in Pucallpa.
Now the picture tells the truth: the teenagers really are the largest group in those homes, and the over-eighties are few but present. The lesson is one children meet again and again in maths and in coding: a picture is only as honest as its key. Choose the key, then check that every group still shows up.
Age 6 to 8, on paper. Draw a pictogram of your family's ages, one smiley for every ten years. What do you draw for a three year old cousin?
Age 8 to 10, in Scratch. Make a sprite stamp one star for every 50 in a list of numbers. Then try 100 and watch which bars disappear.
Age 10 to 12, in Python. Run Version 1, then write the half-star rule yourself before reading ours. Can you make a quarter star for what is left after that?
Going further. Change the groups to the school stages: 0 to 5, 6 to 11 for primaria, 12 to 16 for secundaria. Which group is biggest now, and why might the answer be different from the ten-year groups?
Class times
What time would classes be for a child in Pucallpa?
Whenever suits your family. Pucallpa keeps Peru time all year, and our mentors in India plan around it.
Sample hours in Pucallpa and the matching hour for a mentor in India (conversions only)
In Pucallpa
In India
For the mentor
06:30
17:00
Late afternoon, same day
08:30
19:00
Evening, same day
10:00
20:30
Evening, same day
14:30
01:00
Small hours of the next day
16:00
02:30
Small hours of the next day
19:30
06:00
Early morning of the next day
Peru uses UTC minus 5 hours throughout the year and dropped summer time after 1994 (tz database zone America/Lima; official time from INACAL). India uses UTC plus 5 hours 30 minutes. India is therefore always 10 hours 30 minutes ahead of Pucallpa.
Neither country moves its clocks, so an hour you agree in March stays the same hour in December. You always book in your own time and the booking page shows the mentor the India time. Many Pucallpa families start in the long January to March school holiday and keep the same slot once colegio returns, often a morning class before afternoon school or a slot after lunch.
Progress
What a Pucallpa child can do as they move up
Our own steps, used to place a new child in the right group and to tell parents, plainly, what has changed.
Coding steps for children aged 6 to 12 (ours)
Step
Often reached at
Your child can
1. Sequence
6 or 7
Snap blocks in order so a character walks, jumps and speaks
2. Repeat
7 or 8
Use a loop instead of copying the same block ten times
3. Decide
8 or 9
Make a game react when a key is pressed or two sprites touch
4. Remember
8 to 10
Keep a score or a lives counter in a variable
5. Type
9 to 12
Write short Python programs with loops and if statements
6. Picture data
10 to 12
Turn a list of numbers into a chart and say whether it is fair
For parents
Step 6 is the pictogram project. A child who can say "this key hides the smallest group" is reasoning, not just typing.
Each month you hear what your child built and what they found hard, in plain words.
For young coders
If a bar disappears, the people did not. Your key swallowed them.
Guess the answer first, then run the program and see if you were right.
More for children
Nine more courses for Pucallpa children
Arranged by age. In each one your child meets the same mentor, live and in English, with other children or alone.
I
First steps
Ages 6 to 9
PUC / A / 01
Coding for Kids
Scratch stories and games that grow into simple apps over the year.
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Fees
Fees for children in Pucallpa
Payment is monthly. We price in US dollars and charge the card in that currency; the soles figure on your statement is whatever your bank's rate makes it that day.
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Pucallpa parents ask
Coding classes for kids in Pucallpa: questions and answers
Are the classes in Spanish?
No, never. Our lessons are live and online, and English is the only teaching language. Mentors keep sentences short, follow your child's pace and accent, show each step on screen, and when a child answers partly in Spanish they reply with the English words.
Is there a coding class for kids in Pucallpa?
Yes, live online. Children in Callería, Yarinacocha, Manantay and nearby log in from home; nobody has to cross the city. Scratch starts at 6, Roblox scripting at about 8 and typed Python at about 9.
What does my child need at home?
A steady internet connection and, from about nine, a laptop or desktop with a keyboard. A tablet can do for the first Scratch months at six to eight. A phone alone is not enough. A headset helps in a busy house.
Only one in five Ucayali homes has a computer. Can we still join?
INEI's 2025 figure for Ucayali is 21.2% of homes with a computer. If you have no computer yet, tell us at the free class and we will be honest about which course, if any, will work, rather than sign you up for one that will not.
How young can a child begin?
Six is a good age, using Scratch, where children drag blocks instead of typing. Most move on to typed Python at nine or ten, when the keyboard no longer slows them down.
Does primaria in Ucayali teach programming?
No. The national curriculum treats digital skills as a transversal competency used in every area, and the primaria plan has no computing or programming area. Programming is learned outside school.
What time are the classes in Pucallpa?
Any day, any time, flexible: choose a batch, or for a very personalised plan choose 1-on-1 at the hour that suits your family. With India ten and a half hours ahead every day of the year, 08:30 in Pucallpa is 19:00 for the mentor.
My child speaks very little English. Is it too early?
Possibly, for a six year old. Many children manage well because coding is visual and the mentor waits for answers. The free first class shows us within minutes, and if it is too soon we will tell you so.
What currency are the fees in?
US dollars, paid monthly by card; your bank turns the charge into soles. Visitors from India see rupees on this page instead. The trial class costs nothing and we ask for no card details.
Will my child get a certificate?
Where a course has one, your child receives a completion certificate from us. MINEDU and Peruvian schools play no part in it and it counts for nothing at school; its value is that it lists what your child really made.
Read next
Related pages for Pucallpa families
More on coding for children in Peru, and on our classes.
The free class is a small game and a friendly chat. By the end the mentor knows how your child attacks a puzzle and copes with spoken English, and will recommend a course, a group, or simply waiting a while.
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