Lambayeque region · Live online, in English · Ages 6 to adult
Online coding and AI classes in the Lambayeque region
Chiclayo, Lambayeque and Ferreñafe sit within an hour of each other, yet a child in Incahuasi studies at almost three and a half thousand metres. This page sets out who lives in the region, what Peruvian school does and does not teach about programming, which of our live online courses suits each age, and a project built on the regional government's own list of schools, where four honest percentages add up to 101.
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In one paragraph
Learners anywhere in the Lambayeque region can take live online coding, AI and maths classes with Modern Age Coders, from Chiclayo and José Leonardo Ortiz to Ferreñafe and the highland districts, and every lesson is taught in English. Six year olds begin with Scratch, older children add maths through code, secundaria students go on to Python, Java and statistics, and grown-ups work on Python, spreadsheets, data and AI tools. A mentor teaches each lesson face to face over video, either to a class of fifteen to twenty or to a single learner, on whichever days and at whichever hours the family settles on.
Where Lambayeque learners begin
Three courses to start with in the Lambayeque region
One for primaria, one that joins coding to school maths, and one for secundaria. Adult courses follow further down the page.
What is the population of the Lambayeque region, province by province?
INEI counted 1,404,633 people in the department of Lambayeque in the 2025 census, spread over three provinces and 14,461.5 square kilometres. Chiclayo is the capital and by far the largest province.
Lambayeque by province, Censos Nacionales 2025 (total population)
Unit
People, 2025
Note
Department of Lambayeque
1,404,633
Three provinces; capital Chiclayo
Province of Chiclayo
894,229
Includes Chiclayo, José Leonardo Ortiz, La Victoria, Monsefú
Province of Lambayeque
395,722
Includes the town of Lambayeque, Mórrope, Olmos
Province of Ferreñafe
114,682
Includes Ferreñafe and the highland district of Incahuasi
District of Chiclayo
270,739
The central district only
Census table: Cuadro N° 1 of the Indicadores demográficos that INEI released from its 2025 national census (población total; the census counted people as of 15 September 2025). The capital is from INEI's Compendio Estadístico Perú 2026, cuadro 1.8, and the area from cuadro 1.7. The rows overlap: the district sits inside its province, and the provinces sit inside the department, so they are never added up.
The cities people name
In the 2017 census, the last one with city figures, INEI counted 552,508 people in the city of Chiclayo, a built-up area that runs across several districts. INEI has not yet published city totals from the 2025 census, so that 2017 figure is still the newest one for the city as a whole.
INEI's 2017 directory of centros poblados also lists the separate places inside and around it: Chiclayo itself with 270,208 people at 28 metres above sea level, José Leonardo Ortiz with 156,498, La Victoria with 86,024, the town of Lambayeque with 58,276, Ferreñafe with 33,526 and Monsefú with 23,969. Each of those is one centro poblado, and none of them is a total for the metropolitan area.
School-age children in 2025
The 2025 census counted 142,542 people aged 6 to 11 in the department and 147,164 aged 12 to 17. Those two age bands line up closely with primaria and secundaria, so together they give a feel for how many young learners the region has right now.
These are people counted in person (población censada), which INEI publishes by age; the department total above also includes an estimate for people the census missed. That is why the age figures look a little lower than a share of 1,404,633 would suggest.
Lambayeque is usually pictured as coast: rice fields, the sea at Pimentel and the pyramids of Túcume. The regional school list used later on this page tells another story, because its highest school sits at 3,467 metres in the district of Incahuasi, in the Ferreñafe highlands. A live online class reaches both ends of the department the same way, which is one reason families outside Chiclayo city ask about it.
Internet and computers
Can a family in Lambayeque take classes online?
Most can. INEI's yearly household survey shows that in 2025, 58.8% of households in Lambayeque had an internet service and 79.2% of people aged 6 and over used the internet. A home computer is rarer, at 36.1% of households.
Connectivity in Lambayeque and in Peru as a whole, 2025 (percentages from INEI's ENAHO survey)
Measure
Lambayeque
Peru
Households with at least one computer
36.1%
33.9%
Households with an internet service
58.8%
56.8%
Residents from age 6 up using the internet anywhere
79.2%
81.1%
Figures for 2025 from INEI's household survey (ENAHO), as tabulated in the Compendio Estadístico Perú 2026, first volume, tables 11.5, 11.6 and 11.13. Internet use there includes home, school, work and public cabins alike.
What a class actually needs
A live class needs a screen big enough to see code, a microphone, and a connection that can hold a video call for an hour. A laptop or desktop is ideal. A tablet with a keyboard works for Scratch. A phone is fine for the free first class and for listening, but too small for typing Python week after week.
If your home has internet but no computer, tell us before the first class. The mentor will plan the first weeks around what you have, and we will be honest if the course you want needs more.
Where online beats travel
From Olmos or Mórrope to central Chiclayo is a long trip for an evening class, and Incahuasi is further still. Online, the same mentor reaches a learner in La Victoria and one in Ferreñafe at the same moment, with nobody on the road after dark.
Because everything happens on screen, every learner also practises a skill school rarely teaches on purpose: managing files, sharing a screen, and explaining a problem clearly to someone who is not in the room.
What school covers
Do schools in the Lambayeque region teach programming?
Not as a subject. Lambayeque's schools follow the national curriculum, the CNEB, which has no computing or programming area; digital skills are expected inside every subject instead. The regional education office is putting its effort into maths, with technology as a tool.
Peruvian school stages, MINEDU's normative ages, and where coding appears
Stage
Grades
Age on 31 March
Programming on the timetable
Primaria
1° to 6°
6 to 11
None; digital competency is transversal
Secundaria, lower
1° to 3°
12 to 14
None; Matemática 4 hours, Inglés 3 hours a week
Secundaria, upper
4° and 5°
15 and 16
None outside MINEDU's Lima Norte Python pilot
Where this comes from: Law 28044, Peru’s general education law, which gives primaria six years and secundaria five; MINEDU’s table of normative ages, which takes each child’s age on 31 March; and the national curriculum (CNEB), for competency 28 and the weekly hours of the regular secundaria day. We read each of them in November 2026.
What the regional office reports
On 22 July 2026, the Gerencia Regional de Educación de Lambayeque reported the close of its "IV Programa de Actualización en Matemática y TIC 2026", run with the Universidad Nacional Pedro Ruiz Gallo. The programme lasted 120 pedagogical hours over eight weeks and trained 84 maths teachers from the UGEL of Chiclayo, Lambayeque and Ferreñafe, with emphasis on GeoGebra and artificial intelligence.
That is a sign of where the region is heading: teachers using software and AI to teach maths better. It is not the same as pupils learning to write programs themselves, which is the part we add.
The size of the system
INEI's compendium, using MINEDU's school census, counts 115.8 thousand pupils in public primaria and 87.5 thousand in public secundaria in Lambayeque in 2025, and 21,826 teachers across all levels and sectors. Private schools add more pupils on top of the public figures.
Across Peru, MINEDU counted 53,631 schools and 6,225,000 students when the 2026 school year began on 16 March 2026. Lambayeque follows the same national curriculum, so what is missing from the timetable in Lima is missing here too.
Our classes are not a school and lead to no Peruvian qualification. A child's colegio stays in charge of marks, promotion and certificates. What we add is regular, hands-on practice: the learner writes a program, runs it, finds out why it is wrong, and explains the fix out loud to a mentor. If you would like the national picture by grade, our guide to coding and AI classes in Peru sets it out in one table.
Every age
Which of your courses fits a learner in Lambayeque?
Age decides the starting point and interests decide the route. Course ages below are ours; the grade column is only a guide, since a birthday after 31 March moves a Peruvian child down a year.
Where learners in the Lambayeque region usually start (our recommendation, confirmed at the free class)
Age
Usual Peruvian grade
First course
First thing they make
Six or seven
First or second year of primaria
Coding for Kids, in Scratch blocks
A moving story with sound
Eight to eleven
Third year of primaria onwards
Scratch games, or AI literacy
A game that keeps score; a guessing bot
Ten to fifteen
Late primaria, early secundaria
Maths Through Coding
A program that checks a percentage
Thirteen to eighteen
Any year of secundaria
Python for Teens, later Java or statistics
A small data tool on a real file
Eighteen or older
University or a job
Python, data analysis, AI tools
A report that updates itself
Primaria
Lessons are brisk and playful. At six, a child moves blocks until a character walks across the screen; by ten, the same child is typing a loop that repeats it. Nobody in primaria is ever placed with teenagers.
Secundaria
Teenagers write real Python, then choose Java, statistics or databases. This is also where contest thinking grows: reading a problem slowly, testing an idea, saying why it works.
University and work
Undergraduates at the UNPRG or a private university and people with jobs are taught in adult groups, booked around lectures or shifts. Our learners run from age 6 all the way to 67.
Parents whose child already speaks good English sometimes ask for the classes their cousins in Lima take. Our page on English-medium coding classes in Lima describes that path, and every course on it is open to Lambayeque families on exactly the same terms. For a Spanish explanation to share with grandparents, there is clases de programación para niños en inglés.
Taught in English
Are the classes in Spanish?
No. Every class is live, online and taught in English only, by mentors based in India who speak clearly and slowly and adjust to how each learner speaks.
Where Lambayeque starts
EF's English Proficiency Index 2025 scores the city of Chiclayo 474 and the Lambayeque region 467, both in its low band. Peru as a whole scores 519, in the moderate band, and Lima city 555, the only Peruvian city in the high band.
So for many children in Chiclayo, English is a skill still being built. We plan for that openly: during the free class the mentor listens for how easily the child follows spoken instructions, then tells you plainly whether to start in a group or one to one.
How a mentor makes it work
Mentors use short sentences, repeat instructions in simpler words, write key words in the chat and wait for an answer. A learner who replies half in Spanish is understood and given the English word.
Code helps too. A Scratch block or a line of Python looks the same in Chiclayo as anywhere else, and most of a lesson is building something on the shared screen. Many families tell us that the English becomes the second thing their child learns each week.
A real Lambayeque project
Why do four honest percentages add up to 101?
The Gobierno Regional de Lambayeque publishes the list of every school service in the region as open data. Our students use it to meet a problem that every newspaper, school report and chart maker faces: round each share to a whole number and the total may not come out at 100.
The data
The Gobierno Regional de Lambayeque releases "Centros Educativos en la Región Lambayeque actualizados a junio 2025" through the national open-data portal (Plataforma Nacional de Datos Abiertos), with ODC-By, the Open Data Commons Attribution Licence, as its terms. Our copy, data_iiee_rl.csv, taken on 9 November 2026, holds 3,616 rows dated 1 July 2025.
Each row is one school service, not one building: a primaria and a secundaria that share a site are two rows with the same Código Local. The column "Nivel / Modalidad" says which kind of service it is, from Inicial No Escolarizado to Superior Tecnológica.
The question
What share of the region's school services are inicial, primaria, secundaria and everything else? A student groups the sixteen kinds of service into those four stages, counts them, divides by the total and rounds each share to a whole percentage, the way a newspaper would print it.
Then they add the four percentages up as a check, expecting 100. The program below does exactly that.
Version 1: round every share, then add them upPython
import csv
def stage(level):
if level.startswith("Inicial"):
return "Inicial"
if level in ("Primaria", "Secundaria"):
return level
return "Other"
counts = {}
with open("data_iiee_rl.csv", encoding="utf-8-sig") as src:
for service in csv.DictReader(src, delimiter=";"):
s = stage(service["Nivel / Modalidad"])
counts[s] = counts.get(s, 0) + 1
total = sum(counts.values())
shares = {s: round(100 * n / total) for s, n in counts.items()}
print("Services:", total)
print("Shares:", shares)
print("Adds up to:", sum(shares.values()))
It prints Services: 3616, Shares: {'Inicial': 50, 'Other': 6, 'Primaria': 31, 'Secundaria': 14} and Adds up to: 101.
Nothing is wrong with the arithmetic. The exact shares are 49.585% for inicial, 30.725% for primaria, 13.772% for secundaria and 5.918% for the rest. Every one of them rounds up, so each gains a little, and the little gains add up to a whole extra point. Change the grouping and the total can just as easily come out at 99. Rounded parts do not have to add up to a rounded whole.
There are two honest ways out. One is to print one decimal place and say that the parts may not sum exactly because of rounding. The other, when a chart or a table must show whole numbers that total 100, is the largest-remainder method: round every share down, see how many points are missing, and give them one at a time to the shares that lost the most when they were cut.
Version 2: round down, then hand out the missing points by largest remainderPython
import csv
def stage(level):
if level.startswith("Inicial"):
return "Inicial"
if level in ("Primaria", "Secundaria"):
return level
return "Other"
counts = {}
with open("data_iiee_rl.csv", encoding="utf-8-sig") as src:
for service in csv.DictReader(src, delimiter=";"):
s = stage(service["Nivel / Modalidad"])
counts[s] = counts.get(s, 0) + 1
total = sum(counts.values())
exact = {s: 100 * n / total for s, n in counts.items()}
shares = {s: int(x) for s, x in exact.items()} # round every share down
left = 100 - sum(shares.values()) # points still to hand out
by_remainder = sorted(exact, key=lambda s: exact[s] - shares[s], reverse=True)
for s in by_remainder[:left]:
shares[s] += 1 # biggest leftovers first
print("Points handed out:", left, "to", by_remainder[:left])
print("Shares:", shares)
print("Adds up to:", sum(shares.values()))
It prints Points handed out: 3 to ['Other', 'Secundaria', 'Primaria'], Shares: {'Inicial': 49, 'Other': 6, 'Primaria': 31, 'Secundaria': 14} and Adds up to: 100.
Rounded down, the four shares are 49, 30, 13 and 5, which make 97. Three points are missing. The leftovers are 0.918 for "other", 0.772 for secundaria, 0.725 for primaria and 0.585 for inicial, so the first three get a point each and inicial stays at 49. The total is now exactly 100. The price is that inicial shows as 49 even though 49.585 rounds to 50 on its own: no method can make every part look rounded the usual way and still hit 100, so a careful writer chooses one and says which.
School services by province in the regional list, July 2025 (our counts from data_iiee_rl.csv)
Province
All services
Primaria
of which public
Secundaria
of which public
Chiclayo
1,881
508
184
285
93
Lambayeque
1,180
422
355
151
103
Ferreñafe
555
181
166
62
53
Data: Centros Educativos en la Región Lambayeque actualizados a junio 2025, from the Gobierno Regional de Lambayeque via the national open-data portal; licence ODC-By (attribution). Every count in the table is our own. "Public" means a Gestión / Dependencia value starting with "Pública". All 737 rows for Inicial No Escolarizado carry the Código Local 0, because these community programmes have no school building of their own, which is why counting buildings needs a different program from counting services.
The province table is worth a second look. In the province of Chiclayo only 93 of 285 secundaria services are public, while in Ferreñafe 53 of 62 are. That is a fact about how the services are run, not about their quality, and it is the kind of pattern students learn to describe carefully rather than to judge.
Under 9, with counters. Share 10 sweets between 3 children as fairly as possible. Who gets the extra one, and why? That is the largest-remainder idea with no computer at all.
Scratch, around 9 to 11. Make a list of four numbers, divide each by the total, round, and show the sum on screen. Try lists until the sum is 99.
First Python, around 11 to 13. Run Version 1, then explain in your own words why 50 + 6 + 31 + 14 makes 101.
Ages 13 and over. Write Version 2 yourself before reading ours, then repeat the shares for each province separately. Which provinces add up to 100 without any help?
Going further. Count distinct buildings instead of services, using Código Local, and decide what to do with the 737 zeros before you trust the answer.
Maths and contests
How do Lambayeque students do in maths, and can they enter the ONEM?
They can, through their school, and many do: the regional office reported more than 1,700 students at the UGEL stage of the 2026 national school maths olympiad. Results on the national assessments show why steady practice matters.
Share of pupils reaching the satisfactory level in maths, 2025 national assessment
Grade assessed
Lambayeque
Peru
4° de primaria
25.1%
30.0%
2° de secundaria
9.1%
12.7%
Source: INEI, Compendio Estadístico Perú 2026, tomo 1, cuadros 5.53 and 5.54, from MINEDU's Unidad de Medición de la Calidad Educativa. The percentages are of pupils assessed in each grade.
The ONEM in Lambayeque, 2026
The Gerencia Regional de Educación reported on 21 August 2026 that more than 1,700 students from the provinces of Chiclayo, Lambayeque and Ferreñafe took part in the UGEL stage of Peru's national school maths olympiad, the ONEM. More than 950 secundaria students sat it in the UGEL Chiclayo and 752 in the UGEL Lambayeque.
Nationally, the 2026 school stage was held on Wednesday 8 July 2026, with three levels (1° and 2°, 3° and 4°, and 5° de secundaria) and a paper of ten questions in two hours. Students enter through their own school; we are not connected with MINEDU, the GRE or the ONEM.
What we do about it
A satisfactory result in maths depends on reading a problem carefully, choosing a method and checking the answer. Those are the same habits a good programmer uses, which is why our maths and coding classes share them.
For olympiad preparation we write our own problems in the ONEM spirit and never copy the organiser's papers. The percentages project above is one example: a short question that rewards thinking before calculating. Families who want maths taught in English as its own subject can read about our maths teachers in English for Peru.
A practice problem of ours. Three classes have 11, 13 and 16 pupils, so the shares of the total are 27.5%, 32.5% and 40%. Rounded to whole numbers, what do they add up to? Using the largest-remainder method, which class gives up its rounding? (Ours, written for this page. Answer: 28 + 33 + 40 = 101 when each rounds half up; rounding down gives 27, 32 and 40, one point is missing, and the two leftovers of 0.5 tie, so a rule for ties must be chosen and stated, for example the larger class first, giving 27, 33 and 40.)
Class times
What time would the classes be in Chiclayo?
Whenever suits you. Chiclayo shares one clock with the rest of Peru, five hours behind UTC in every month, and mentors fit their day to yours.
Six sample hours in Chiclayo and the same moment for a mentor in India (conversions, not a timetable)
Peru time in Chiclayo
India time
Day in India
06:30
17:00
Same day
08:00
18:30
Same day
10:30
21:00
Same day
14:00
00:30
Next day
17:30
04:00
Next day
20:30
07:00
Next day
Peru keeps UTC minus 5 hours with no summer time (tz database zone America/Lima; Peru last changed its clocks in 1994). India sits at UTC+5:30 and never changes its clocks either, which keeps it 10 hours 30 minutes ahead of Chiclayo on every date.
A slot agreed in the summer holidays is still the same slot in the school year, because neither country moves its clocks. Bookings are made on your own clock; the mentor sees the converted hour on theirs. Families often start in January or February and keep the slot when school returns in March; our summer holiday coding page for Peru explains how that start works.
Progress
What a learner in the Lambayeque region can do, stage by stage
Our own milestones, used for every learner whatever their age, so families can see progress as things built rather than hours spent.
From first blocks to trustworthy numbers (our milestones)
Step
Usual age
What they can do by then
1. Sequence
Six or seven
Order instructions so a sprite walks, turns and speaks
2. Repeat
Seven to nine
Wrap actions in loops; respond to a key or a click
3. Count
Eight to ten
Hold a running tally in a variable and display it
4. Type
Nine to twelve
Type Python that decides, repeats and is split into functions
5. Summarise
Age 11 to adult
Turn a real file into counts and shares
6. Publish honestly
Age 13 to adult
Round, check the total and say how the numbers were made
For parents
The Lambayeque project sits at steps 5 and 6: producing a figure, and then being able to defend it.
Every month the mentor tells you what was built, what was hard and what comes next.
For learners
If your percentages add up to 101, nothing is broken. Find out where the extra point came from.
A good table says how its numbers were rounded.
More courses
Nine more courses for Lambayeque learners
Children first, adults last. All nine run live and in English, taught by a mentor who stays with the group, whether that group is fifteen to twenty learners or just one.
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Children
Primaria and early secundaria
LAM / KIDS / 01
Scratch coding
From an empty stage to real games, one block at a time.
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Fees
Fees for learners in the Lambayeque region
Plans are monthly and priced in US dollars. The card payment goes through in dollars; the soles figure on your statement depends on the exchange rate your bank applies that day, so it can move a little between months.
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Lambayeque families ask
Online coding and AI classes in Lambayeque: questions and answers
Are the classes in Spanish?
No. All teaching is in English, live and online, with no Spanish-language groups. Mentors keep their English slow and clear, follow the learner's accent and speed, and when a child slips into Spanish they reply with the English word.
Do you have a centre in Chiclayo?
No. All our classes are online, so there is no centre to visit. A learner in Chiclayo, José Leonardo Ortiz, Lambayeque, Ferreñafe or Incahuasi joins from home in exactly the same way.
From what age can my child start?
Six is the youngest, using Scratch blocks with no typing. Typed Python usually follows at nine or ten. A teenager with no experience can begin at thirteen, and adults are welcome at any point in life.
Do schools in Lambayeque teach coding?
Not as a subject. The national curriculum treats digital skills as a competency inside every area, and the secundaria timetable has no computing subject. The regional office has trained maths teachers in GeoGebra and AI, which helps teaching, but pupils rarely write programs of their own at school.
What time are the classes?
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. Peru is always 10 hours 30 minutes behind India, so 08:00 in Chiclayo is 18:30 for the mentor.
Is our internet good enough?
Usually. In 2025, INEI found an internet service in 58.8% of Lambayeque households. A class needs a connection that holds a video call for an hour; a laptop or desktop is best, and the free class is a good test of your set-up.
Can you help with the ONEM?
Yes, by training careful reasoning on problems our own team writes; the organiser's papers are never copied. Entry is through the student's colegio, and the 2026 school round took place on 8 July. Modern Age Coders has no link with MINEDU, the GRE Lambayeque or the olympiad itself.
Can university students and adults join?
Yes. Adults have their own groups. Most begin with Python, then branch into spreadsheets and data or AI tools, scheduled around lectures or a working day.
How are fees charged?
Once a month, by card, in US dollars, with your bank doing the conversion to soles. Prices shown to someone browsing from India appear in rupees instead. Nothing is charged for the first class.
Will my child get a certificate?
Where a course includes one, it is a Modern Age Coders completion certificate that records the work done. No Peruvian body issues or backs it: not MINEDU, a UGEL, a university or a school, and it carries no school credit.
What is the Lambayeque project on this page?
An original Python lesson on the regional government's open list of school services: rounding four shares gives 101, and the largest-remainder method fixes the total at 100. Older children and teenagers work through it in class.
Elsewhere on this site
Related pages
More reading for Lambayeque families and adult learners.
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