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    The National American School was first launched in the academic year 2000-2001 by visionary people who saw the benefit of a new secular school in Zahle that accommodates students searching for a unique and untraditional education.

    N.A.S. is a leading educational institution that has carved a niche for itself among other schools in the area. Located in the middle of the Bekaa Valley on the outskirts of Zahle, it caters to students from Nursery to Grade 12 in both the Lebanese and American curricula. Instruction for both programs is in English. Its location has enabled it to have students from all surrounding villages spreading from the north to the south of the valley.

    The well-organized and thoroughly studied curriculum of the N.A.S. and the dedication of its faculty members have enabled its students to harvest amazing results in the Lebanese official exams as well as in the SATs and university entrance exams.

    The Lebanese have been sailing the seas for centuries but most often they come back to their homeland to plant new roots and establish relationships with their homeland and original community. Hence, the application of the American System Program in the school. This program allows students with foreign nationalities to learn an atmosphere similar to the one they came from and yet maintain a sense of discipline and ethnicity. We believe the school’s motto: For a Better Tomorrow, Today has been well served and implemented. We work together to provide our students:

    • The best possible start in life.
    • A good quality education.
    • The best opportunity to develop his/her full potential and contribute to society in a meaningful way.

    The diligence and dedication of very qualified and experienced teachers and administrators have expeditiously made NAS a leading educational institute in both the Lebanese Program as well as the International. Our Core Values are:

    • A student is an individual worthy of our care and attention.
    • Education is a powerful weapon that should be used to change the world.

    The International Program (American System) is taught in English and using international textbooks. The students registered are generally from Lebanese families returning from abroad or from non-Lebanese families working in Lebanon as well as students who have studied three consecutive years outside of Lebanon. The International Program, which occupies a separate department, leads to a High School Diploma with all students sitting for the SAT Reasoning Test.

    Every year, for our Graduation Ceremony, we have a new theme for our invitation card that is reflected in the platform we build for the event, where we try to send our students off into the world with a bit of educational splendor. The talented architect who has been helping us for the past few years suggested the theme “Let them fly away…”. The expression might carry negative annotations to the cynical in mind, but it also carries the most positive ones to the great-hearted. A school does not chain and bind but rather it sets free minds manacled by chaos and irresponsibility. A school is a place where students are trained to fly away for the first time. It is the place where they are taught to use their imagination to carry them to new places.

    It is also the place where the student first learns to be an independent intellectual, capable of great and rich feats. All that is the work of schools that set minds and souls free from the bondage of ignorance. Ignorance is the plague of our society today. Our young people’s interests nowadays are so trivial and redundant, making it easy for evil to creep into their impressionable and often ignorant immature minds, twisting all the goodness inside them to form horrible monstrous people capable of doing heinous crimes against their society and also against humanity.

    As educators, we strongly believe in the power of education. Education that opens minds and hearts to the value of human life, and the importance of accepting our fellow human beings, thus enriching our lives and existence. Helen Keller believes that “The greatest result of education is tolerance”.

    Socrates said, “There is only one good, knowledge, and only one evil, ignorance”. Let’s work towards the annihilation of evil and ignorance, and setting our students free, through the spreading of education and knowledge.

    National American School
    Founding year: 2000
    Website: Visit Website
    Number of students: 875
    Genders Accepted: Mixed (Co-education)
    Leadership: Mrs. Tamara Dibs (Principal)
    Address: National American School, Ksara, Zahlé, 273, Lebanon



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