The short answer
Children across Ontario learn the Quran one to one over video with the same qualified teacher every week, explained in English. Lessons sit after school on Eastern time, fees are published in Canadian dollars from CA$54 a month, and every family starts with up to three free classes.
Why Ontario families look online
Ontario is not short of madrasas. What an Ontario winter is short of is the drive: a class at seven on a Tuesday means leaving the house in the dark, in traffic, in weather, twice a week, and that is the thing that quietly ends most children's Quran education long before the child does.
The second reason is the shape of the lesson. A weekend class of twenty children gives each one a couple of minutes of reading aloud. A half hour on video gives the same child the whole half hour, and the teacher hears every letter.
How the week fits an Ontario school day
After school
A 4pm or 5pm slot on Eastern time is the one most Ontario families take. Straight after school with a snack first works better than after homework.
Before school
A 6:30am or 7am lesson suits a child who reads better in the morning, and it is the quietest hour to book.
Weekend mornings
Saturday and Sunday mornings, alongside a weekend school rather than instead of it.
Your child keeps the same slot and the same teacher every week. Ontario clocks went back on 1 November 2026 and go forward again on 14 March 2027; your lesson stays at the same local time either way, so nothing has to be renegotiated twice a year.
Starting from no Arabic at all
Most children we are given in Ontario start at the Noorani Qaida: the letters, their sounds, the vowel marks, and how a letter changes shape when it joins the next one. Four to ten months at three or four lessons a week, depending on how young the child is when they start.
The hard part is the sounds English has no equivalent for. Telling one from another is something a teacher has to hear in the moment and stop, which is the part that does not survive being taught to a room.
What a month costs in Canadian dollars
- 2 days a week
- 8 lessons of 30 minutes — CA$54 a month
- 3 days a week
- 12 lessons of 30 minutes — CA$68 a month
- 4 days a week
- 16 lessons of 30 minutes — CA$76 a month
- 5 days a week
- 20 lessons of 30 minutes — CA$82 a month
Charged in Canadian dollars. No registration fee, no contract and no minimum term, and no card is taken for the trial classes.
What to check before enrolling anywhere
- Is the lesson genuinely one to one, or a small group described as personal attention?
- Is the fee published in Canadian dollars before anyone asks for your phone number?
- Will it be the same teacher every week, and can you have their name before you pay?
- Is a second adult from the academy on the call, and may you sit in unannounced?
- What happens to a lesson your child misses through illness -- is it lost, or moved?