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Admission

 

Admission Requirements:

  • Entrance test of ability.
  • Interview with the Headmaster.
  • Parent interview.
  • Documentation from previous school, including letter of good conduct from previous Principal.
 

Complete the applications:

Parents of prospective students are welcome to contact the Registrar Office and arrange for a tour of the school.
 

Procedures for prospective students include:

  1. The completion of an application form
  2. Student's birth certificate.
  3. Four recent photographs of student.
  4. Attendance certificate and the last report issued by the student's previous school.
  5. A current medical report signed by an approved physician.
  6. Each foreign student must submit a photocopy of his/her passport.
  7. Make an appointment for testing and interview.

Test Requirements:

  1. Preschool: admission where there is space available
  2. Kindergarten through Second grade, applicants will be interviewed, evaluated, and tested. Evaluations are done by individual appointments.
  3. Third through Tenth grade, applicants take the School Ability Test. Also required are recommendations from current English and Math teachers, a transcript from the applicant's current school, a letter of good conduct from principal, a school visit and an interview.

Admission procedures start in April for the following September. They will continue throughout the spring and summer months where there are available spaces. The school will make no admission decision until all required materials are on file and the testing procedure is complete.

 

ASA Grade Level System:

In order to enter the American Kindergarten a child should be 5 years old by December, 1st. If a child is 6 years old on September 15th, she/he is in the American 1st Grade. It is felt that mental , social and physical maturity must correspond by years to the appropriate grade level for each child.

To enter the following grades at The American School of Alexandria a student has to be the correct age for entrance by September 15th of the school year:

 

1st Grade

6 years old
 

2nd Grade

7 years old
 

3rd Grade

8 years old
         

4th Grade

9 years old
 

5th Grade

10 years old
 

6th Grade

11 years old
         

7th Grade

12 years old
 

8th Grade

13 years old
 

9th Grade

14 years old
         

10th Grade

15 years old
       
 
11th and 12th grade admissions are only under special circumstances.