College De La Salle, Amman | International Schools Guide

A Catholic Lasallian school in Jabal Al-Hussein, opened in 1950 and the oldest international-track school in this batch. Around 1,400 students, mostly Muslim, with Christian and Muslim teaching running in parallel.

Run by the Brothers of the Christian Schools, part of a global Lasallian network across 80 countries. The academic offer is unusually broad for Amman: IB Diploma since 2018, IGCSE and A-Level, the Jordanian Tawjihi and SAT prep, with English, Arabic and French in the language mix.

Fees are not made public, signalling a locally oriented intake. The school's identity is interfaith and community-rooted rather than expat-facing, and most parents choose it for the values and the long Lasallian tradition rather than for an international peer group. Useful option for families who want a religious-ethos school with a credible IB route.

One of Amman's oldest schools, founded in 1950 by the De La Salle Brothers and still running on Lasallian Catholic lines, with a director who is himself an alumnus and has been in post since the religious-to-civilian transition in 2009. The campus sits on Al-Razi Street in Jabal Al-Hussein, walkable from the Firas and Dakhilieh roundabouts. The student body is large by Amman standards at around 1,400, predominantly Muslim despite the Catholic foundation, and the school is a frequent name-check among older Jordanian families because so many ministers, professionals and public figures came through it. Curriculum is genuinely mixed: IB Diploma and MYP alongside IGCSE and A-Level, with the Jordanian Tawjihi and SAT prep also available, English as the main medium and Arabic and French taught alongside. Fees sit at the low end of the international-school market in Amman.

Positives

Heritage and reputation. Founded in 1950 and one of the names that carries weight in Amman, with a long alumni list that includes Jordanian ministers and public figures. The Lasallian network behind it spans 80 countries, so the brand is portable for families moving on.
Interfaith intake. Catholic foundation but open to all faiths, with the majority of the roll Muslim. Christianity and Islam are taught as separate religion classes inside an otherwise shared timetable. The school leans into that mix as part of its identity rather than treating it as an exception.
Curriculum spread. An IB World School running both the MYP and the Diploma, with IGCSE and A-Level as parallel tracks and Tawjihi available for families on the local pathway. Useful for households still deciding between a Jordanian university route and an overseas one.
Languages. Arabic and English as working languages, with French taught throughout. A genuine trilingual exposure rather than a single second-language slot, which is rare in Amman outside the dedicated francophone schools.
Fees. Annual fees fall in the JOD 2,150 to 3,880 range, which puts the school well below the headline international-school tier in Amman. The mix of Tawjihi and IB tracks helps keep the running costs in check.
Leadership continuity. Director Gabi Ghazzawi, an alumnus, has been in post since the school moved from Brother-led to civilian leadership in 2009. A long, stable run rather than the turnover seen at some Amman campuses.

Scale and density. Roughly 1,400 pupils on a 30,000 square metre site in dense central Amman. Big year groups give breadth in sport and music, set against a busy urban feel rather than the open suburban campuses of the newer west-Amman schools.

Admissions process. One parent recounted being kept waiting at reception past the booked interview time. A single voice, but the kind of friction that comes up at schools running high application volumes.

Religious atmosphere. Catholic identity is visible in the daily rhythm, with chapel, religious instruction streams and the Lasallian framing. Most families value the structure that comes with it; some Muslim families have noted the gap between the school's stated openness and how the Christian framing lands day to day.