SABIS


SABIS is an education management organization that operates schools in fifteen countries on five continents in both the private and public sectors and licenses a proprietary education program. According to the company, schools in the SABIS Network educate over 70,000 students and implement a proven, proprietary system. SABIS is a family company that is now in its fourth generation of family ownership
In 2008, SABIS was the topic of Professor James Tooley’s book From Village School to Global Brand: Changing the World through Education. The company claims to provide students with a top-quality education that prepares them to meet the challenges of a changing world.

History

In 1886 Reverend Tanios Saad and Louisa Proctor founded the International School of Choueifat in Choueifat, a village near Beirut, Lebanon. The school was initially for girls but later became co-educational.
The International School of Choueifat embarked upon an expansion program outside Lebanon in the mid-1970s that has since grown to include schools in 20 countries on 5 continents. The company is structured in three corporations headquartered in the U.S., Lebanon, and the U.A.E.
SABIS Educational Systems, Inc. of Eden Prairie, Minnesota was established in 1985 and licenses the SABIS Educational System in North America, South America, and Europe. In 1995 SABIS was contracted to operate the SABIS International Charter School in Springfield, Massachusetts, a public charter school. In 2014, the International Academy of Trenton was founded as a SABIS charter school. As of 2016 SABIS operates fifteen schools in the United States, comprising twelve charter schools, two licensed schools and one private school, The International School of Minnesota. It also has several branches in the Middle East, with twelve in the United Arab Emirates and schools in Qatar, Oman, Iraq and Egypt. It has several sister schools in Europe, including a boarding school in Bath, England, a school in Romania and one in Germany, and a presence in Pakistan. The SABIS system is slightly different in each region depending on the management.
In 1998, SABIS established the SABIS Foxborough Regional School. The management contract was rescinded in 2007 for curricula non-compliant with Massachusetts charter law.
In January 2018, SABIS' charter for the International Academy of Trenton Charter School was revoked by the state of New Jersey for failure to meet minimum standards.

Global Presence

It is associated as manager or operator with schools in twenty countries, including the ISF International School Frankfurt Rhein-Main, Germany.
In 2015, SABIS managed charter schools in the United States enrolling 6,332 students on a vendor operated school basis.