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Sanaa International School is an international school on the edge of the city of Sanaa, Yemen, serving ages 2-18.〔"(Home page )." Sanaa International School. August 26, 2013. Retrieved on September 28, 2015.〕 It is a nonprofit organization founded in 1971. It provides an English language education, primarily to the children of embassy and United Nations personnel and international workers such as oil and gas businesses. It also educates many Yemeni students planning to enter western universities. The school teaches pre-school – Grade 12 levels. As of 2013 it has a total enrollment of some 73 students from over 11 nationalities. The school has had to deal with the political crisis in Yemen, with an average of 16 students leaving since 2011. Sanaa International School is the only accredited school in the whole of Yemen and has been accredited by the US-based Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools since 1983. Sanaa International School is part of Quality Schools International ==History== James E. Gilson, who previously served as the principal of Yemen-American Cooperative School in Taiz, then in Yemen Arab Republic a.k.a. North Yemen, opened the Sanaa International School in Sanaa, North Yemen in September 1971. Gibson, who had lost his job after the Taiz school closed in 1967, had accepted a teaching position in Saudi Arabia early that year and hired a couple as the Sanaa International School's first teachers. The school's initial enrollment was four students. Gibson and his family moved to Sanaa in July 1972 as the Sanaa school enrollment increased to 25. That year the school began efforts to establish a permanent campus, and three years of discussions and meetings began. Several persons within the United Nations and the government of Germany, the United States, and North Yemen made efforts to get the school permanent land. Meanwhile, within several years the enrollment was at over 200.〔"(The History and Origins of QSI 1971 - Present )" ((Archive )). Quality Schools International. Retrieved on September 30, 2015.〕 An advisory board, including foreigners and Yemenis, established the school's articles of association and by laws in 1974, forming the nonprofit organization and resulting in the school having a board of directors.〔 On December 22, 1976, the school began occupying a plot of land given by the North Yemen government given for free for a 50 year period. On January 1 the school's permanent facilities began construction, and on May 7 of that year the school signed a formal agreement, including the land grant, with the North Yemen government.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sana'a International School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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