Bahrain Bayan School Competitors

GEMS Education is one of the world’s leading private K-12 education providers, educating over 200,000 students from 176+ nationalities across its global network of owned and managed schools. With nearly half a million alumni, GEMS has built a legacy of impact that spans generations and continents. Established in Dubai in 1959, GEMS remains a family-founded and family-led organisation, guided by its visionary founder and chairman Sunny Varkey, and his sons Dino Varkey (Group CEO) and Jay Varkey (Deputy Group CEO). With a focus on delivering high-quality education to students from all walks of life, GEMS offers a wide range of curricula and learning pathways. Each year, GEMS students graduate into the world’s top universities, including all eight Ivy League institutions and every UK Russell Group university, and go on to become leaders, innovators, and changemakers in every sector. Through its expanding school network and philanthropic initiatives, GEMS is committed to its mission: to put a quality education within reach of every learner, everywhere.

With a 60,000 square meter state-of-the-art campus and a capacity of 1200 students, American School of Bahrain (ASB) is the home to one of the most advanced K-12 learning environments in Bahrain. Located in Riffa, near the Bahrain National Stadium, the premium American international preparatory school opened its doors in September 2020. With a challenging standards-based, US curriculum designed to meet the highest standards of international education, ASB offers graduates pathways to the world’s top universities and prestigious careers. ASB has been established in Bahrain by Esol Education, the world’s largest operator of high-quality international American schools, in a joint venture with Elm Education Fund (Elm), a Bahrain-based education platform backed by Bahrain Mumtalakat Holding Company (Mumtalakat), the country’s sovereign wealth fund. Elm establishes and co-invests in world-class educational institutions in partnership with leading global operators. ASB follows Esol Education’s 40-year tradition of establishing exceptional schools worldwide, with certified, professional and caring educators, experienced leadership and world-class facilities. The school aims to facilitate innovation, academic excellence, international mindedness and happiness, fostering students who will be leaders within their communities and beyond.

Riffa Views International School is a non-profit, college preparatory school committed to implementing the best educational practices from around the world, while being sensitive to local cultural values. We strive to be a community of learners engaged in becoming intellectually adept, technologically proficient, and ethically guided contributors to a global society. Profile: Riffa Views International School (RVIS) is an International Schools Services (ISS) managed school located in a prestigious gated golf community in Bahrain. The school offers a standards-based curriculum in Nursery through Grade 11, with our final graduating year, Grade 12, beginning in 2015. The intention behind RVIS has always been to create the exceptional. The founding members of the Board of Trustees have and continue to view RVIS as the beacon of excellence for the educational sector in Bahrain. Our college preparatory program actively engages every student in academics, athletics and the fine arts. The latest in educational technology is at the fingertips of all students, at all times, in all classrooms. Our world class faculty provides individual, warm and caring attentions to each and every child. Our faculty is student centered, collegial and dynamic. We are searching for enthusiastic educational pioneers to join our team. The Faculty: The majority of our teachers possess either a U.S. or Canadian teaching certificate, and all have attained a Bachelors (44%), Masters (52%) or Doctorate degree (4%). The Director recruits overseas hire teachers at ISS, University of Iowa and Queen’s University teacher recruiting fairs. We have 32 foreign-hire teachers, 4 administrators, 18 local-hire teachers, and 26 support/administrative staff (total 80 staff). Nationalities of our overseas hire faculty are American, Canadian, Australian, British and Chilean. Our local hire faculty is British, Bahraini, Jordanian, Saudi Arabian, Syrian, Tunisian, American and South African.