King’s Academy (Arabic transliteration: كينغز أكاديمي) is a co-educational private boarding school that opened in August 2007 in Madaba-Manja, Jordan. King's Academy recently became a member of the G20 Schools group, a league of top independent secondary schools, situated around the world.
King's Academy is modeled off the educational experience of His Majesty King Abdullah II at Deerfield Academy in the United States. The Academy also embraces i...
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King’s Academy (Arabic transliteration: كينغز أكاديمي) is a co-educational private boarding school that opened in August 2007 in Madaba-Manja, Jordan. King's Academy recently became a member of the G20 Schools group, a league of top independent secondary schools, situated around the world.
King's Academy is modeled off the educational experience of His Majesty King Abdullah II at Deerfield Academy in the United States. The Academy also embraces its Jordanian and Middle Eastern heritage by incorporating subjects such as Middle Eastern History into the curriculum.
The five 'guiding principles' of the school are:
The building of the school began in July 22, 2004 His Majesty King Abdullah II laid the cornerstone of the campus at a ceremony attended by Her Majesty Queen Rania, the Jordanian Prime Minister Faisal al-Fayez and Dr. Safwan Masri, Columbia University professor and chairman of King's Academy Board of Trustees. Dr. Eric Widmer, former headmaster of Deerfield Academy, took on the...
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