YIS is located in Ash Shati District in Jeddah-KSA just 5 minutes away from the Red Sea Mall north of Jeddah. Check here to know the exact location for Girl’s Section Or the Boy’s Section.

YIS welcomes applicants of all nationalities. Currently, over 20 nationalities are represented in the student body.

Yusr International School, also known as YIS, is an accredited, private, for-profit independent school; governed by a Board of Trustees; serving both the local and the expatriate communities; located in Jeddah – Saudi Arabia.

Students who join YIS as non-native Arabic speakers (coming from countries where Arabic is not the main spoken language) are put in an Easy Arabic Program to improve their skills under the supervision of the Arabic Department.

YIS’s American Diploma is based on the American curricula and is awarded after successfully meeting all graduation criteria. Students accumulate credits toward graduation and credits are earned based on final grades. Throughout the four high school years, graduates receive their YIS high school diploma based on the following requirements:

• A total of 88 credits are required.
• Transfer students will have their official transcripts reviewed and added to the remaining academic years at YIS.
• Students must earn a minimum grade point average of 0.7 on a 4.3-point scale.
• Students must submit a complete graduation project.

To learn about the process for applying to YIS, please visit the Admissions Webpage.

Students who want to rejoin YIS are treated as new applicants and must reapply and understand that all new student fees will still apply unless they have left YIS for less than one year, then the Administrative Fee is waived.

To learn more about YIS’s tuition and fees, please visit the Tuition & Fees webpage.

All YIS students are supposed to have their own Chromebook device that is either bought from school or from the local market as long as they follow the specs mentioned in the “Technology Device Procedures and Expectations Policy” followed by YIS. All technical devices used in school by students should fall completely under the school domain policy set by the IT department.

Please visit Admissions and Fees for a better understanding.

The average class size at YIS is as follows:

YIS has a Special Education Need department “SEN”. Based on their needs, students are either completely included in regular classes and receive additional support from specialized staff members in one-to-one sessions, or they are 100% under the supervision of the SEN department and all classes are conducted by SEN specialized teachers depending on the need and the case.
Our SEN department covers: learning difficulties, psychology, autism, speech therapy, and down syndrome.

Families with more than one child are eligible for a Tuition Fees discount. This discount does not apply to any other fees such as technical devices, uniforms, and book fees.
Please visit Tuition & Fees webpage for more information.

YIS seeks to accept applicants who have been successful in their previous schools and who show equal promise of being successful at YIS, after meeting the criteria of admission. For further information, please contact our Admissions Office.

Yes. Please visit Uniform Information for a better understanding.

Any applicant holding a Saudi passport must apply using their Saudi passport. Applicants from other nations should use the passport connected to their Saudi visa (e.g., Iqama).

In addition to academic admissibility and prioritization of space, YIS admission policy specifies other criteria for applicants as follows:

• Students with significant English Language Learning (ELL) may not be admitted to Grades 6 – 12, if accepted they may be taken under probation.
• Applicants for Pre-K must be three years old on or before the 1^st of September.
• Applicants for KG1 or KG2 must be four or five years old on or before the 1^st of September.

YIS provides bus transportation for students who are interested to register for bus service. YIS encourages the use of bus services to support the reduction of traffic congestion and as a means to better our environment, kindly visit the Bus Services page on our website for more details and a better understanding.

ENGLISH:

Other than the identity courses (Arabic, Quran, Saudi History and Geography, and Islamic Studies) all subjects are taught in English. YIS’s instruction language is English.

ARABIC:

All YIS students take the Arabic language as per the Ministry of Education regulations and requirements.

FRENCH:

The French language is a core subject for Grades (1-8).

Students in Grades 9 and 12 may choose French as an elective course.

Current enrollment is approximately around 2,000 students with 20 different nationalities providing a strong mix of backgrounds, cultures, and experiences to local and expatriate students. The biggest percentage goes to Saudi students.

The Ministry of Education mandates that all students in any international school in KSA should take Islamic studies, Quran, and Saudi History and Geography as mandatory courses that are taught in a specific number of sessions circulated by MoE.
For non-Muslims students, they study Islamic Culture instead of Islamic Studies and the Quran.

Yusr International School follows the calendar set by the Ministry of Education. The academic year consists of three terms with an approximate number of instructional days that vary between 60 & 63 teaching days with an equal number of teaching weeks. YIS Academic Calendar accommodates the required local holidays set by MoE.

The Administrative Fee is a one-time, non-refundable fee applied to all newly enrolled students, with the exception of those students who are re-enrolling after being away for less than one year.

In addition to evaluating the applicant’s previous records and studying the admission application, the Admissions office requires all new applicants to sit for an entrance exam as well as for a personal interview. Entrance exams are set for students attending Grade 1 – Grade 12.
An entrance exam fee is applied to all applicants who have been asked to take such an exam.

Information about the number of students either returning or enrolled for the next academic year is very important information for the Admissions office. Therefore, parents of existing students are asked to fill out the re-enrollment form and pay the Seat Deposit Fee to reserve a seat for their child for the upcoming academic year.
The Seat Deposit Fee is considered as a non-refundable fee and will be deducted from the annual fees.

• School days for students start at 7:45 a.m. Sunday through Thursday.
• First teaching sessions for all grade levels commence at 8:00 a.m.
• Students finish their school day (regular learning scenario) as follows:

Kindly visit The School Day page on our website for more details and a better understanding.

Administrative offices’ working hours are as follows: