American International School in Egypt

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The American International School in Egypt has been one of Egypt's leading schools since it opened its doors to its first 240 students in 1990. Today, AIS Egypt has two campuses, with a combined student population of over 2000 students.
AIS Egypt is a member of Educational Services Overseas Limited (ESOL), a group of ten American and British schools spanning six countries and three continents. In partnership with the school community, our mission is to provide eligible students, primarily from the Middle East and living in the Greater Cairo area, with a challenging American and International college preparatory education. Our caring, professional faculty strive to empower our students to become critical, independent thinkers with the skills to be dynamic participants in an ever-changing global society.
Fully accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools in Philadelphia, AIS Egypt's American diploma is recognized by the Egyptian Ministry of Education as equivalent to the Egyptian General Secondary Certificate. Our International Baccalaureate Diploma Program (IB DP) is authorized by the International Baccalaureate Organization in Geneva, Switzerland.
Our American curriculum follows United States national standards as well as Virginia standards and is designed to prepare students for entry into highly competitive colleges and universities in the United States, Canada, Europe, the Middle East, and beyond.
During every step of our student's academic journey, we strive to provide the finest American educational instruction while cultivating a passion for learning, a capacity for critical thinking, and a sense of civic responsibility. A tradition of educational excellence drives our future.
Our habit of instilling brave curiosity and diligent effort has enabled AISE to thrive as Cairo’s largest operating PreK-12 academic institution. This legacy is known far beyond Cairo, helping to affirm AISE as one of the best schools and its students as many of the best in the country, decade after decade. Our coursework, from Pre-Kindergarten through grade twelve, provides meaningful and challenging opportunities for both individual and collective achievement. We empower students with the desire and the means to reach their highest potential. We want students to be able to take a question that’s compelling in the world or their lives and have many tools with which to help them answer it.
The conversation between student and teacher is the heart of our school all that we do must be born of and nourish that relationship. We are called to challenge the minds, excite the imaginations, and train the bodies of the students who have been entrusted to us to enlarge their desire for humankind’s common good and to increase their capacity for mutual and self-respect. We intend to prepare our students to learn confidently for the rest of their lives and to give generously and joyfully to others. We can accomplish these things only if we keep our students safe and well while they are in our care.
We must ask our students what they believe in so they can know themselves in the world. We must give our students the tools of rigorous and passionate intellectual inquiry and self-expression so they can grow. In our commitment to diversity, we must show our students how to be colleagues and friends so they can act out of respect and love. We must show our students how to make healthy choices and have respect for their minds and bodies. We must lead them to distinguish right from wrong and then choose to do what is right so they can be persuasive and courageous citizens.
As a school community with these purposes and responsibilities, we will engage the larger communities of city, nation, and world of which we are apart. We will serve our neighbors. We will live fully in our city, exploring its byways and playing over its terrain. We will learn its history and traditions, and what it can teach us about the arts and sciences. We will embody and celebrate its diversity.
Educational Excellence, the terms of our motto, hard work, and moral excellence, are meant to strengthen us as we pursue the promise and joy of The American International School in Egypt. We ask AISE families, alumni, and friends to join us in taking on this high calling.
In life and at school we are crew, not passengers. Students and teachers are strengthened by acts of consequential service to others and each other. One of AISE’s primary functions is to prepare students with the attitudes and skills to learn from and be of service. A direct and respectful relationship with the natural world refreshes the human spirit and teaches the important ideas of recurring cycles and cause and effect. Students learn to become stewards of the earth and future generations. We encourage you to become part of our AISE community and partner with us on our journey of educational excellence.

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