Yara International School

Yara International School مدرسة يارا العالمية
Yara International School, 2022
Address
King Faisal Road Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University Building, ad-Dirah, Riyadh Saudi Arabia
Coordinates	24°37′44″N 46°43′02″E / 24.62889°N 46.71722°E / 24.62889; 46.71722
Information
Other names	Al-Yara International School[1] Yara Public School[2]
School type	Private day school
Motto	We want your Kid to be a Star!
Established	17 May 2003; 21 years ago (2003-05-17)
School board	Central Board of Secondary Education
Educational authority	Ministry of Education
Trust	Yara Educational Trust
Session	April to March
Chairman	Habeebul Rahman PP
CEO	Khalid Abdullah Mohammed Aldrees
Administrator	Abdul Kader Koya
Principal	Aasima Saleem Yezdani
Teaching staff	132
Grades	K–12
Gender	Mixed (nursery–kindergarten) Gender-isolated (1–12)
Age range	4 to 18
Enrollment	2500
Education system	Indian (since 2003) British (2019–2023)
Language	English
Classrooms	119
Area	9,890 square metres (2.44 acres)
Houses	Emerald   Ruby   Sapphire   Topaz
Color(s)
Slogan	Paving the path to excellence...
Affiliation	CBSE Gulf Sahodaya
Demonym	Yarian
Named after	Yara bint Khalid Aldrees
Website	yaraschool.net

Yara International School (YIS) (Arabic: مدرسة يارا العالمية), simply sometimes Yara (Arabic: يارا),^[3] is a K–12 gender-isolated English-medium community-based private foreign school in the ad-Dirah district of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, located next to Qasr al-Hokm Metro Station in the erstwhile precincts of the Female Student Study Center of Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University. Established in 2003 by a group of businessmen, it primarily serves the local Indian diaspora and offers curriculum prescribed by the Central Board of Secondary Education. The school previously offered British curriculum alongside the Indian one from 2019 to 2023.