National Evangelical Institute for Girls and Boys (NEIGB)

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Welcome to the National Evangelical Institute for Girls and Boys (NEIGB). Founded in 1862 by American missionaries, NEIGB is an Evangelical School affiliated with the National Evangelical Synod of Syria and Lebanon. The School is accredited by the Lebanese government and is also the U.S. accredited, university preparatory school, committed to providing educational excellence through standards-based Lebanese curriculum leading to the Baccalaureate Certificate, and a standard-based, internationally enriched American curriculum leading to a High School Diploma, altogether serving a student body of around 1700.

The National Evangelical Institute for Girls and Boys has long been recognized as one of the leading, non-profit schools in Lebanon. We are proud of this School’s glorious history and of the legacy it has built-in Lebanon for the past 156 years. If admission to this School is your aim, we look forward to welcoming you soon to our community of learners.

The National Evangelical Institute for Girls and Boys is a student-centered school where the focus is on learning it is a school where the feeling of community is real, and where children learn and develop in a friendly, nurturing, creative and safe environment, supported by highly qualified and dedicated faculty and staff.

National Evangelical Institute for Girls & Boys prepares students to become positive and active global citizens by fostering educational excellence, promoting a sense of understanding and compassion for others, and stressing the moral, intellectual, social, emotional, and physical development of each student. NEIGB is a school community where learning is:

• Student-centered.
• Technology-driven.
• Data and evidence-based.
• Engaging and team-oriented.
• Extended beyond school walls.
• Creative, challenging, and empowering.
• Sustained by value-driven practices.

Core Values (RICH)

• Responsibility.
• Integrity.
• Compassion.
• Honesty.

Global competitiveness is what National Evangelical Institute for Girls and Boys (NEIGB) is all about. Not only does the school seek to attain excellence in education, but it also seeks to enrich its students’ cognitive, psychomotor, and affective skills and to thoroughly pursue their development and growth.

The school offers top-quality educational programs to students of different backgrounds. It also addresses various learning styles by developing students’ academic aptitudes, social skills, and character building. Besides, the multi-cultural school community contributes to the cultivation of this awareness.

NEIGB offers two educational systems: The Lebanese system leading to the official Secondary III Baccalaureate and BT3 certificates, and The American system, leading to the completion of the 12th-grade program of study and issuance of the high school diploma.

The American High School curriculum is based on the “American Core Curriculum”, which leads to admission to both private Lebanese universities and/or colleges and universities abroad. MAP is used in Cycles I and II to measure students’ academic progress, while TOEFL and SAT are taught and utilized at the secondary level to prepare students for college and university admission.

The School also supports students who find it hard to manage the core requirements by offering students with special needs a sub-curriculum that allows them to cope with the main curriculum fundamentals.

The School’s teaching philosophy revolves around the principle of active learning. This empowers our students who are enrolled in the American System to experience countless skills and to invest their knowledge in life issues. Our teachers utilize teaching material and subjects vertically and horizontally, using different means to engage learners verbally, individually, via research projects, community service, and group work.

In 2012, National Evangelical Institute for Girls and Boys celebrated the School’s 150th anniversary of its foundation in 1862 as one of the oldest educational institutions in the region. This great success story can be traced to the vision of the early American founders of Sidon Evangelical School for Girls and Gerard Institute for Boys.

The Sidon Evangelical School for Girls (SESG) played a pioneering role in the education of women in the Middle East. The School started in a single house in old Sidon in 1862 before relocating in 1924 to its current and beautiful campus in the Greater Sidon City suburban town of Al Hara. The campus’s new construction included independent buildings and cottages. The buildings housed classrooms, an assembly area, a modern kitchen, a library, a sewing room, and laboratories. At that time, the school adopted Home Economics and Children Care curricula to prepare girls to become mothers and housewives. The cottages provided a caring family environment where girls lived under the guidance of caring and loving cottage mothers.

Parallel to the founding of the Sidon School for Girls, a school for boys was also founded by the early missionaries in a leased house in 1881. Despite numerous challenges and governmental regulations, American missionaries Rev. William Eddy and Dr. George Ford successfully led the march to establish the school which has become one of the educational pillars in the city of Sidon. In 1884, the School moved to its new location in the Greater Sidon suburban town of Miyeh w Miyeh and was named Gerard Institute.

By 1904, Gerard Institute had become a pioneering school that offered both academic and technical training. The academic division offered regular courses under the direction of Dr. Ford, while the technical division offered training in carpentry, blacksmithing, sewing, shoemaking, and construction, and was directed by Rev. William Eddy. Hence, the Arabic name of the school “Madrasat Al Fonoon”, which means “the School of Arts”, became the institution’s new name in Arabic.

Sidon Evangelical School for Girls and Gerard Institute for Boys were merged into one school in 1985 under the new name of National Evangelical Institute for Girls and Boys (NEIGB). Yet more than 150 years later, the School’s founding ideal remains the same. It lives in every classroom and is endorsed by teachers, staff, and administrators whose only drive is to prepare students for a world in need of intelligent, responsible, enthusiastic, honest, and compassionate leaders.

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