Ras Ghareb to Get a Japanese School With 14 Classrooms, Red Sea Deputy Governor Says

A Japanese school with 14 classrooms is being opened in Ras Ghareb, the deputy governor of the Red Sea said in remarks reported by Youm7 on Saturday.

The report attributes the announcement directly to the deputy governor and gives two concrete details: the location, Ras Ghareb, and the size of the school, 14 classrooms. Ras Ghareb sits at the northern end of the Red Sea Governorate on the Gulf of Suez coast, north of Hurghada, and is the governorate's main oil town rather than a tourism centre.

Egypt's Egyptian-Japanese Schools are state schools run on a Japanese-influenced model, and they have been opened in batches across the country's governorates over recent years. Youm7's report does not spell out whether the Ras Ghareb school will run that national programme or when it takes its first intake.

It also gives no cost, no contractor, no capacity figure in pupils, and no admission arrangements — the 14 classrooms are the only measure of scale in the report.

The announcement lands in the middle of the governorate's back-to-school season. Hurghada News has reported this month on the Red Sea governor opening the 'Ahlan Madares' fair with discounts of up to 30 percent, and on applied technology schools being offered to Red Sea students as an alternative to the traditional secondary track.

For families in Ras Ghareb, a new 14-classroom school is a straightforward gain in places in a town that sits two hours and more from the governorate's larger schools in Hurghada. For anyone weighing a move up the coast for work, it is one of the few pieces of hard information on school capacity outside the main resort towns.