Amman - School Report Question and Answers
How would you rate the school's support and welcome/integration of new students and their families, and why?
It is really hard to say or judge since we arrived during COVID. My kids' entire first year was virtual and they didn't meet a single person. The school handled the academic part of that well, but they made little to no effort to help new kids during that year. It was brutal. - Jul 2022
Uneventful. There was a student that reached out as a sort of student ambassador. - Feb 2021
It's great. They really do a good job- even interviewing each and every kid by skype for a follow-up. - Sep 2019
A+ + + + +. King's Academy, modeled after the King of Jordan's alma mater, Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts, goes over and beyond anything required of them. I would say that with the support is also an expectation that the child do his or her best in all areas: academics, sports, co-curricular, and community service. The whole person is developed in ways that other schools simply can't compete with: Daily sit-down meals with advisors and their students is one example. It really is a "prep" school. My daughter's advisor, for example, is a graduate of Yale. You just don't get that at other area schools. - Nov 2018
ICS is amazing, really. They did an incredible job interviewing and even following up individually with the children. They were very attentive. - Feb 2018
Pretty good. The key factor is that King's is essentially a boarding high school that tolerates a certain number of day students. Most of the welcoming/integration is geared toward the boarders to help them adjust to the experience and to develop that community. Some efforts with the day students but not much. - Apr 2017
It was pretty good, considering that our child started mid-year. - Aug 2016
Our children had a rocky start, mostly due mean spirited kids and non inclusive kids. There are a few great families here and once they navigated and made friends with children who respect each other, they did better. However, now 4 months in we are still trying to seek resolution to a child who continuously pounces, hits, pokes, and prods my children. - Dec 2015
Very receptive to new families. They have a lot of student turnover because of the diplomatic community. New students are integrated quickly. - Sep 2015
B: There is a nice "first friends" program in elementary, and an active PTA with a big back-to-school picnic. That's the last free thing you'll see, though. - Aug 2015
B. The newcomer orientation felt disorganized and all over the place. I left feeling like I had none of my questions answered. We're talking basic things like transportation and hot lunch. Part of it, I think, was there was a brand new elementary school principal and he arrived only about a week prior to school starting so he was still trying to figure everything out himself. - Jan 2015
