A report by julescript · May 2026
Your school is invisible to ChatGPT.
All 2,860 K-12 schools in Lebanon were checked in May 2026. 326 have a website.
2,860K-12 schools registered in Lebanon
326have a website, all of them private
11%of schools have a website
0 of 20schools without a website were recognised by AI
Chapter 01
Parents ask AI assistants for school recommendations.
900M+
ChatGPT weekly users. OpenAI, February 2026
Parents ask ChatGPT, Gemini or Claude which school to choose. The answer lists three to five schools with a reason for each. Schools the assistant does not know are not listed.
Best K-12 private school in my area for my curious 7-year-old?
Three schools match:
- School X
- School Y
- School Z
Schools the assistant does not know are not listed.
Chapter 02
The census.
All 2,860 K-12 schools registered in Lebanon, public, private and UNRWA, counted on 19 May 2026. 326 have a website. All 326 are private.
11%
of schools have a website
0%Public0 of 1,234 schools
22%Fee-paying private263 of 1,209 schools
18%Free private63 of 352 schools
0%UNRWA0 of 65 schools
Websites by governorate
Share of schools with a website in each governorate. All 2,860 schools.
- BeirutBeirut23%
- Mount Lebanon, suburbsMt Lebanon, suburbs19%
- Mount Lebanon, restMt Lebanon, rest13%
- BekaaBekaa10%
- SouthSouth9%
- NabatiehNabatieh9%
- NorthNorth8%
- AkkarAkkar6%
- Baalbek-HermelBaalbek-Hermel6%
Chapter 02, continued
Websites that meet a 2026 standard
Of the 326 websites, 178 load on a phone, use HTTPS, were updated recently and are not broken.
178
Meet the standard
All K-12 schools2,860
With a website326
Meeting a 2026 standard178
178 of 2,860 schools.
Chapter 03
What AI assistants know about a school
Forty schools were tested in May 2026. Twenty with a website, twenty without.
Twenty schools with a website
- Name, location and programme
- Ages and languages of instruction
- Fee range
- How to apply, and when
- A recommendation, with reasons
16 of 20 recognised, with location, programme and fees.
Twenty schools with no website
- Name, sometimes
- A town
- Nothing else
- Not recommended, because nothing is known
0 of 20 recognised.
No school without a website was recognised by any assistant.
Chapter 04
Timeline
A new website takes about six months to be cited by AI assistants. Admissions for September 2027 open in autumn 2026.
6 mo
From launch to AI citation
A website
Works on a phone, loads fast, shows fees, curriculum and how to apply.
Directory listings
Wikipedia, Edarabia, Google Business. Three of four AI citations come from directories.
Content for parents
Plain language, real photos, current dates and fees.
Current state
178 of 2,860 schools meet the standard today.
Packages
Three packages from $2,400, delivered in one month.
The researcher
Julien Hosri.
UX advisor · Fractional CTO · Beirut
Creative Managing Partner at maxiphy, a Beirut software studio founded in 2015. Products built with banks, hospitals, retailers and the public sector across Lebanon, the Gulf and London. Former lead instructor at SE Factory, Lebanon's software engineering bootcamp, where two hundred and fifty graduates learned what shipping software actually looks like.
Third report in a series on how Lebanese organisations appear online. Data and method are public.
2012Shipping software since
100+Products shipped with maxiphy
12+Industries
250+Engineers mentored
- Banking
- Retail
- Healthcare
- Logistics
- Hospitality
- Public sector
- Education
- SaaS
Questions on the method or the data: book a call or send a message.