International School of Choueifat - Amman

The Amman branch of SABIS, the Lebanese-origin global network, open since 1997 and one of the largest international schools in the city.

Around 2,500 students K to 12 on a campus in Wadi Essir, all running the standardised SABIS Educational System with its weekly AMS testing, prefect-style Student Life Organisation and tightly scripted lessons. The model is built for scale and academic throughput. Maths and English progress fast, and graduates often report being ahead in first-year university work.

Reviews split sharply. Families who fit the system value the structure, discipline and consistency, and stay for years. Others find the pastoral side thin, the teacher turnover high and the centralised model leaves little room for individual learners. The English-medium intake is strongly local, with a smaller international cohort than ICS or ACS. Fees sit in the lower-middle band for Amman international schools.

• Amman branch of the SABIS network, open since 1997 with around 1,500 students from kindergarten to grade 12.
• Parent reviews are split: some families describe a strong, disciplined academic system with attentive admin follow-up and praise the wider extracurricular and character programmes.
• A persistent counter-line says the SABIS approach prioritises memorisation and test prep, with parents reporting little attention to wellbeing and personality and citing student departures to schools they describe as more caring.
• Alumni who went through the system in other Choueifat campuses describe heavy testing loads in upper grades, with one ex-student saying grades 9 to 12 routinely involved 10 to 15 tests a week, while crediting the school with making university transitions easier.
• Staff and admin behaviour is a recurring fault line: positive reviews praise the calibre of teachers and security, while negative reviews focus on management and disciplinary handling rather than classroom teaching.