International Maarif Schools – Erbil

International Maarif School – Erbil has started its activities in 2018. The main purpose of our school; is to educate younger generations who will contribute to the development of Erbil by providing qualified education to the students. Our Erbil school, with a total student capacity of 1200, provides education services from kindergarten to secondary school.

The school building includes spacious homeroom classes, specialist classes for music, art, ICT labs, PE (Physical Education) and Turkish, science laboratories, a library, and state-of-the-art kitchens equipped to cater for 1200 students as well as a spacious cafeteria. In addition, the school hosts a 500 seat concert hall, practice rooms for musicians, teaching rooms for piano and violin classes and a library with 12000 printed materials.

The school also include a separate building, playground and cafeteria for kindergarten.

The school campus includes a gymnasium and world class indoor and outdoor sports courts for tennis, football, basketball and volleyball.

The school is under surveillance of well-trained security staff and security cameras 7/24.

Area of school grounds: 75,000 m2

Inside floor space (school premises): 33,000 m2

Garden and outdoor play areas: 8,000 m2

Number of classrooms: 70

World class concert halls: 1

International Teachers Apartments

Mission & Vision

The mission of International Maarif Schools of Erbil is to foster a lifelong commitment to intellectual curiosity and to raise children as self-reliant responsible individuals endowed with critical thinking.

In the light of 21st century’s requirements for knowledge and skills, and pursuing the aim to bring up “people of goodwill”, the goals of our schools are:

• To educate our students as a successful individuals in national and international level who read, research, think analytically and innovatively, and produce added values.
• To ensure that our students will be entrepreneurial individuals who have a sense of responsibility, respect to their environment and other living beings, developed sense of social work, inclination to team work.
• To equip our students with the knowledge, skills and academic qualifications of the positivist sciences to enable them to gain a scientific perspective.
• To develop our students’ knowledge in the field of social sciences, to direct them, to think about national and international issues, and to produce proposals for possible solutions.
• To equip our students with communication skills that will enable them to use their mother tongue and multiple foreign languages effectively.
• Beyond the fact that our students are technologically literate, educating them as individuals who not only consume, but also produce technology.
• To enable our students to develop themselves in different areas of sports and art in the direction of their interests and abilities.
• Besides of the affinity to the cultural values of their own society, to ensure that our students gain the ability of coexistence with different cultures.