Riyadh - School Report Question and Answers
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It's a great school we appreciate. Our son loves it here and so do we so far. - Feb 2022
It can be more difficult socially for you child if you are part of the American embassy as most kids go to AISR - Apr 2019
If I could do it again, I'd spend more effort providing supplemental educational enrichment for our kids while we were there. - Jul 2018
The school should drop the "A" from their name because this is emphatically not an American school. They will claim that 30% of students are American but I would doubt this to be true; but even if true, half of that number are kids who have an American passport but have no connections to the US. If you were to include all "international" students - that is children of diplomats, international businessmen (sorry, no international businesswomen here), etc who could not go to local schools - I would estimate that 30% are true "international" students. But in general, your American child will be either the only American or one of 1-2 Americans in their class. This isn't really a damming fact, but just one the school should be honest about. For us and almost every other parent we know (1-2 familes are exceptions), the problem is the total lack of academics from 6th grade onward. - Mar 2017
