About REA
About Rawabi English Academy
Rawabi English Academy is a private primary and secondary school that offers quality education in Rawabi, which is a state-of-the-art new city on the move. Set amid the rolling green hills of central Palestine, 700 meters above the shores of the Mediterranean, the setting instills an immediate sense of belonging and comfort. Both the Primary School and Secondary School, in addition to the kindergarten, offer a richly diverse education. As of the 2023-2024 school year, the school has 508 students and 50 teaching staff from Kindergarten to Year 12.
Rawabi English Academy is a Cambridge International School, registered to offer educational programmes from Cambridge Assessment International Education, which is a University of Cambridge designed programme. The school is a member of the world’s largest international community of schools.
From its inception the school adopted the international Cambridge curriculum because it is designed, if taught creatively, to develop higher order thinking skills that prepare students for life, helping pupils become confident, responsible, reflective, innovative and engaged. This is in addition to the fact that success in Cambridge qualifications, including independent research and critical thinking skills, gives students admission to the world’s best universities. It is precisely this potential that the Cambridge curriculum has that the school is striving to successfully tap into. Next year the school will graduate its first A-level cohort that hopefully will embody, the knowledge, skills, competencies and values that the school aspires to instill in its graduates. This plan lays out the future direction of Rawabi English Academy in order to realise the qualities that it aspires to develop in its pupils and educators.
History
Rawabi English Academy was founded in 2016 as a private for-Profit Company, and part of Bayti Real Estate Company which is the driving force behind the development and proliferation of Rawabi city. The Academy was meant to complement the integrated services of a new self-sufficient city with its own housing, business ventures and investments, banking, postal services, health services, hospitality, places of worship, entertainment and quality shopping besides quality education in a safe environment.
When it first opened its doors in 2016, the school had 70 pupils from Kindergaten to Year 5. The following year the school had 200 pupils which doubled in the following two years. Over 70% of the pupils came from Ramallah and El Bireh encouraged not only by the attractive educational programme, but by the availably of transportation provided by the school through Birzeit Bus Company.
Over the past two years, there has been a steady increase in the number of students from Rawabi and the surrounding towns and villages, where Palestinian immigrants return to Palestine for the sake of a more traditional education and upbringing for their children.
Through its educational programme that combines the Cambridge curriculum with the Palestinian curriculum, the school also aims at improving education in Palestine at the pre-school, elementary and secondary levels. Rawabi English Academy remains committed to providing an excellent comprehensive education to meet the needs of a changing society and preparing its pupils for post-secondary education in addition to preparing them to assume roles, not only as citizens and leaders within Palestine, but an evolving world. Rawabi English Academy intends to provide multi-cultural experiences and opportunities that encourage diversity and through empowering pupils to become lifelong learners who strive for success not only in Palestine, but wherever life may take them in today’s global society.