To this end, our educational program represents a bold synthesis of the educational traditions of East and West, the cultures and language of the Arab world and the Anglo-American ideal of a residential boarding school committed to the virtues of respect for others, responsibility and leadership. Through this synthesis, King's Academy both honors the past and aspires to be a school of the future. Our deepest aspiration is to graduate young men and women who will shape the future of Jordan, the Middle East and the world.

A Boarding School for the Middle East

King’s Academy was founded by His Majesty King Abdullah II in 2007 as a reflection of his own boarding school experience at Deerfield Academy in the United States. His goal was to create a residential school in Jordan that combines the rich history and traditions of the region with a comprehensive American-style college-preparatoryeducation.

In just a few years, King’s Academy has established itself as a premier school in the Middle East. We offer students an educational experience like no other available in the world today—an experience that prepares young people of exceptional promise not only for the rigors of the best colleges and universities in the world, but also for the challenges of the 21st century.

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Our Mission

King’s Academy is committed to providing a comprehensive college-preparatory education through a challenging curriculum in the arts and sciences; an integrated co-curricular program of athletics, activities and community service; and a nurturing residential environment. Our students will learn to be independent thinkers within an ethical community that encourages young men and women of diverse backgrounds to excel, to cherish one another and to prepare for leadership.

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Academic Excellence

King’s Academy is a four-year co-educational boarding and day school for grades 9-12. Grounded in the liberal arts and sciences, our American academic program provides opportunities for both breadth and depth of study. We offer Advanced Placement courses in 22 subjects, as well as a variety of electives in history, religion and the arts, including courses in vocal and instrumental music, dance, theater, sculpture, drawing and painting.

The curriculum is carried out through eight academic departments: Communication, Rhetoric and the Literary Arts (CRLA); Computer Science; Ethics, Philosophy and Religion (EPR); Fine and Performing Arts; History and Social Studies; Mathematics; Physical and Life Sciences; and World Languages. Each student’s schedule is a mix of mandated and elective courses, tailored to suit individual strengths and interests while also fulfilling the school’s graduation requirements. Mathematics, Arabic and English are required every year; laboratory sciences, history and world languages courses are required for two or three years for most students. Students typically take Advanced Placement courses in 11th and 12th grade.

The Co-Curricular Program

Graduating students with an integrated and balanced life is essential to the King’s Academy mission. Therefore, the King’s program requires students to be involved in their choice of competitive sports, clubs or activities every day after classes end. Faculty members coach and supervise these activities, leading to a stronger, more personal relationship between teacher and student. Students choose a major and minor co-curricular activity each term, which allows them to build on existing skills as well as explore new areas of interest. Typical co-curricular activities include interscholastic athletics, such as soccer, basketball, tennis, volleyball, swimming and squash; clubs, such as Model UN, the student newspaper, yearbook and Round Square; and activities, such as rugby, fencing, drama, horseback riding and debate.

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Our Students

King’s Academy attracts bright and motivated students from throughout the region and around the world. Most of our students are from Jordan or other Middle Eastern countries, and there are various American and Asian students on campus as well. In the belief that diversity educates in ways that formal instruction cannot, we welcome students from all socio-economic backgrounds, faiths and cultural backgrounds. Admission is selective.

Typical Day at King’s

While no day is like the next and each student’s daily schedule is unique, this is how a typical day at King’s looks:

“The faculty is basically an extended part of my family.”

Anna Kelso, Class of 2010

The Boarding Experience

King’s Academy is a boarding school and most of our students live on campus. We feel that boarding is an ideal way for students to optimize both academic learning and social development as they move through adolescence. Maturity, confidence and lifelong friendships are all the outgrowth of the residential experience. Boarders at King’s live in safe, comfortable, single-gender dorms under the supervision of faculty residents who live in apartments at the end of the dormitory hallways. Students are strictly prohibited from entering dorms of the opposite gender. The structured residential environment integrates regular nightly study hours for students.

Teaching and Advising

Our most precious and important resource is our faculty. King’s Academy faculty bring to their teaching a deep passion for their fields of study, an intuitive understanding of how young people learn and a commitment to working with students in all aspects of their lives. Each student is assigned a faculty advisor who mentors and supports a small group of students throughout the year. Advisor meeting times, both formal and informal, take place on a weekly basis and advisors regularly communicate with parents about the progress of their child. The King’s faculty is comprised of approximately 50 percent Jordanian and other Arab nationals and 50 percent American and other Western nationals.

“At King’s, your days are really packed, which is good because it doesn’t give you time to slack off.”Reed Ghandour, Class of 2011

“At King’s Academy, students enjoy an educational

experience unlike any available in the Middle East.”

His Majesty King Abdullah II

University Counseling

Beginning in 11th grade, our experienced team of university counselors works closely with individual students and their parents to identify colleges and universities ideally suited to their talents and interests and guides them through the college admissions process. King’s Academy graduated its first class of seniors in 2010. Alumni are now attending colleges throughout the Middle East, the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States. Highlights include Stanford, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Brown, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Williams, Amherst, McGill, the University of Toronto, NYU Abu Dhabi and the American University of Beirut (AUB).

“As soon as I came to King’s, I felt like I was at home.”Mounir Ennenbach, Class of 2012

Our Campus

Students at King’s live and learn on a secure campus of 575 dunums (144 acres) located about 30 minutes southwest of Amman, Jordan. Designed to reflect Levantine and Islamic cultural heritage, the campus blends modern innovation with the rich traditions of the region. A green lawn connects 33 campus buildings, including an academic building, auditorium, library, spiritual center, student union, dining hall, athletic center, health center and dormitories.

Guiding Principles

A King’s Academy’s education is defined by a comprehensive focus on our students' development in every sense: intellectual, personal, physical, social and ethical. The five universal values that best express what we strive to impart to our students are:

1. Respect: Tolerance is a beginning, but it is not sufficient. What we hope to instill in our students is an empathetic understanding of one another, and a sense of respect that traverses all student relationships, be it between each other, towards their teachers and families or with regard to the community as a whole.

2. Love of Learning: We do not want our students to perceive their education as simply utilitarian—one that is a mere instrument for their future success. Instead, we hope to foster in them a genuine love of learning for its own sake and a desire to acquire knowledge in and for itself.

3. Responsibility: Along with the privileges of being part of King’s Academy come responsibilities. Students will learn that they are stewards of what they receive, and that it is their responsibility to pass on this stewardship to others, such as younger students and the community as a whole. By extension, students at King’s will have a lifelong responsibility to use their education to help and enhance possibilities for others. A belief in and commitment to social service as well as striving for social justice for others less fortunate will form an essential part of the ethos of the school.

4. An Integrated Life: We do not aim to teach students what to think but rather how to think. Students’ belief systems are a personal matter between their families and themselves. Whatever our students' beliefs, King’s Academy stresses that balance is critical to human well-being. What we at King’s strive to teach our students is how to integrate all aspects of their lives—academic, social, spiritual and physical—in the context of a boarding school environment in which we learn not only about the world but about ourselves.

5. Global Citizenship: King’s Academy is first and foremost a Jordanian school. But it is also a regional school, and ultimately a school of the world. The student body will be diverse geographically, economically, ethnically and religiously, and we aim to raise in our students an awareness of different peoples. We will impart to them universal values, applicable in all cultures, and at the same time encourage their unique sense of belonging to the Arab world.

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