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Sanaa International School

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Sanaa International School was an international school on the edge of the city of Sanaa, Yemen, serving ages 2–18.The school's operations were suspended in 2015. By the end of the 2014-15 school year the school was no longer able to keep foreign staff in Yemen due to the civil strife, and the school was placed on hold for the 2015-16 school year. Subsequently, an air strike on the night of 29 December 2015 destroyed the school’s dome building. The resulting fire then destroyed the surrounding classrooms, effectively destroying half the school campus. It was a nonprofit organization founded in 1971. It provided 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 educated many Yemeni students planning to enter western universities. The school taught pre-school – Grade 12 levels. As of 2013 it had a total enrollment of some 73 students from over 11 nationalities, down from a peak of over 200 a decade earlier due to the deteriorating security situation in the years leading up to the Saudi led multinational coalition intervention in 2015. The school had to deal with the political crisis in Yemen, with an average of 16 students leaving since 2011. Sanaa International School was the only accredited school in the whole of Yemen and had been accredited by the US-based Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools since 1983. Sanaa International School was part of Quality Schools International.

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