Bahrain School

Bahrain School was founded in August 1968 in Awali as the Bahrain American Elementary School, a Department of Defense School, with a staff of one teaching principal and three teachers for about forty students in grades one through eight. By 1970 the school began admitting English-speaking Bahraini students and other non-DoD sponsored students, and enrollment grew to approximately two hundred elementary and correspondence course secondary students. In January 1972, the school moved from Awali to a twenty-four-acre campus in Juffair. From the outset, the Bahrain Middle High School emerged with an American Curriculum for grades 6-12, and opportunities to take Advanced Placement examinations for students in grades 11 and 12, along with a full Arabic First Language program for Arab passport holders.

Bahrain School is located on a 28-acre campus in Juffair, Bahrain. Facilities include science laboratories, a media center, an Arabic library, three art studios, social studies, math, foreign language, English classrooms, a learning resource center, a technology education complex, five computer centers, a business laboratory, instrumental and vocal music rooms, and a multi-purpose cafeteria-theater. Recreational facilities include a lighted artificial turf soccer field and softball fields, a 25-meter outdoor swimming pool, tennis courts, a fitness complex, a four-lane running track, and two gymnasium/sports centers. Extracurricular options include drama, Model United Nations, foreign language clubs, and intramural sports; Bahrain School teams compete nationally and internationally, and the student body represents 29 nationalities.

A PTSA exists and its Chair and Treasurer serve on the Bahrain School Board of Directors.