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MNS was established in 1945. The school’s mission is to help students grow toward success. MNS is an institution in which personal growth is expected, recognized, and rewarded. Its environment is conducive to moral and academic excellence that makes its students flourish in its setting of warmth, love, and personal interest and allows them to fulfill their academic goals, to find more meaning and hope in their lives, and to be responsible for the well-being of their society. At MNS, students have never been and will never become numbers nor are they only names. Our small classes allow maximum attention to the needs of the individual student. The approach to education taken here is a personal one. Administrators, faculty, and staff members have a genuine concern for their students whom they will continue to love, encourage, discipline, and challenge as individuals. The great desire they have for each of their students is that he/she grows in knowledge, in appreciation for the environment, and most of all in morality. We aim to make our students tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truth, and downright ignorance. We want them to grow to be leaders to understand the human heart and speakers to speak with compassion and yet to be objective. We have supplied our MNS students with a loving and nurturing bridge over which our graduates walk to moral and constructive adulthood. Monsif National School is a private trilingual (English, Arabic, and French) coeducational institution for primary and secondary education. It is officially recognized by the Lebanese Ministry of National Education and Fine Arts. It also offers a High School Program to all non-Lebanese and Lebanese students who have spent two or more uninterrupted academic years abroad in schools that follow either the American or the British program. The school admits students regardless of race, color, religion, gender, disability, or national origin. MNS lays special emphasis on preparation for admission to high-standing universities in Lebanon and abroad. The student body represents fifteen nationalities from all over the Middle East, USA, Canada, Australia, Latin America, England, Africa, and Eastern Europe. The friendly atmosphere found on campus aids students in adjusting to a new country and culture and, for some, to a new language. The school administration directs, controls, and encourages certain activities to complement the academic work of the student to provide an enriching cultural, physical, social, and morally uplifting environment. The school includes Kindergarten through grade twelve classes organized into three divisions: Primary (KG I to 6th), Intermediate (7th to 9th), and Secondary (10th to 12th). MNS has set a high standard of education for its students and achieved superior results in the Lebanese official exams and the American SAT I, SAT II, and TOEFL. The school helps prepare its students to be able in their future to contribute to the accumulation and application of analytical methods in a changing world and be aware of the need for harmony between technology and nature. In the High School Program, English is the only language of instruction in all classes, while the languages of instruction in the Lebanese Official Program are English and Arabic. In both programs, French is given as a third language. Awards and academic grants are presented to needy students who have displayed superior academic ability and demonstrated leadership and excellent character. View full school