Located in and around the

Isfahan Isfahan ( fa, اصفهان, Esfahân ), from its Achaemenid empire, ancient designation ''Aspadana'' and, later, ''Spahan'' in Sassanian Empire, middle Persian, rendered in English as ''Ispahan'', is a major city in the Greater Isfahan Regio ...

metro area,

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, the American School Of Isfahan (ASI) was an international K-12 grade

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from 1973 through the end of 1978. Many of the school's teachers were from the United States or

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. Its athletic teams competed against other international and western college preparatory schools in Iran, Egypt, and the UAE. During the 1970s, Iran saw the influx of thousands of Americans, Europeans, and East Asians working for various military and civilian joint industrial ventures. Many brought their families as well, with the result that Isfahan alone hosted a non-Middle Eastern community of well over ten thousand by 1978, among its six hundred thousand residents. At the behest of Bell Helicopter International, Grumman Aircraft, NWASI (Northrop Worldwide Aircraft Services International), the Iranian Ministry of Defense Military-Industrial Organization, and International Schools Services (ISS) formed the American School Of Isfahan in 1973 to educate the children of foreign contractors. Moderately open enrollment for those willing to pay the yearly five thousand dollars (US) tuition added a number of children from the families of well-off Iranians, as well as from foreigners not sponsored by major corporations. In addition, ISS created a "model school" for the children of Imperial Iranian Air Force (IIAF) families at nearby Khatami AFB. Basic instruction was in English and focused on a United States college preparatory curriculum. Enrollment grew from fewer than fifty students in 1973 to over 600 by the beginning of the '78–'79 school year. Starting from a few rooms in the Iran-America Cultural Society, ASI eventually included four facilities across Metropolitan Isfahan for grades K through 12. The School was closed in the midst of the revolution of 1978 – 1979, with the last of the staff and students departing in December 1978. Subsequently, the school's textbooks and library were transferred to an Isfahan teachers research center, while the high school buildings in

Shahinshahr Shahin Shahr ( fa, شاهين شهر،شایین شهر, also Romanized as Shāhīn Shahr) is a city and capital of Shahin Shahr and Meymeh County, Isfahan Province, Iran. At the 2016 census, its population was 173,329 in 35,827 families. Shahi ...

became part of a

Malek Ashtar University Malek Ashtar University of Technology (MUT) ( fa, دانشگاه صنعتی مالک اشتر, Dāneshgāh-e San'ati-ye Mālek Asht'ar) is a public research university of engineering, science in Iran. Founded in 1984, MUT's main campus is located ...

(MUT) satellite campus.

External sources

International Schools Services

ASI Yearbooks

Post-revolution information

of a sex-discrimination lawsuit brought against ISS by some former teachers at the school; includes several facts about the school. {{DEFAULTSORT:American School Of Isfahan 1973 establishments in Iran 1978 disestablishments in Iran American international schools in Iran Defunct schools in Iran Schools in Isfahan Educational institutions established in 1973 Educational institutions disestablished in 1978