Manor House International school is located in remote urban area / community. New Cairo is a new development that was started as expansion for residential/businesses / schools and universities to escape the crowded areas of Nasr City and Heliopolis. 
 Existing and potential residence is a mixture of upper- to-upper middle class families who chose escape the congested city life for a quite well planned housing development that exists in pollution free area. 
High concentration of Schools, Academies and Universities chose the area for the availability of land allowing them for expansion of their facilities at a much lower cost, as well as the proximity to various city centers, such as; Maadi, Nasr City and Heliopolis.
Manor House International School, American Division tries to provide a dynamic learning environment within a flexible framework that provides both student and teacher the opportunity to be creative and bring about the best out of both parties. The school’s curricula and instructional methods are translations and applications of the school’s vision and mission of thriving to provide a holistic learning experience and instill the basic premise of “Know Thy Self”.   
The majority of our stakeholders belong to middle and upper-middle socioeconomic classes. Moreover, the majority of our students and teachers are Egyptians; both Christian and Muslims. Hence, the school’s cultural realm is predominantly Egyptian. However, the school safeguards rights of minority groups, such as; expatriates and special needs students, within our community through providing allowances, such as; accommodations for special needs students, and holidays for expatriates that aren’t mandated in the school calendar, as long as they do not conflict with our vision and direction.  
Student Performance:
Manor House International School teachers and administrators are united with the cause of improving education, and bringing well educated, well respected human beings. We don’t, solely, measure our success with student’s GPA or performance on standardized tests. Our success is mainly measured by the student’s overall well being.
Nevertheless, Manor House American school students, across grade levels, are assessed weekly based on their performance in each subject. Weekly progress reports don’t just allocate marks to overall performance, but it assesses students on different criteria such as; participation, quizzes, projects, homework…etc. This provides a rationale behind the individual student grade. Weekly progress reports are posted on the school’s website, where students and parents can access their individual reports. Also, a tutoring session is provided by the IT administrator to new parents and students to instruct them on how to access their reports, emails, and resources posted on the website. The IT administrator is available during school hours for assistance, as well as the help video that is on the website to help parents and students in accessing their resources.  
Since classrooms are small and teachers get the leverage of spotting the student who is lagging behind, direct action is taken (whether through an action plan, or simply through talking to the student to get to the root cause of the problem and try to solve it) to ensure that no child is left behind. 
Students’ performance is measured based on formative and summative assessments to provide unbiased results, which allows different types of students get the utmost benefit from the class.
Standardized examinations were applied and the school is registering its students this year too take the MAP test (G1-10).  The senior and junior classes (G11 & 12) take SAT, since it’s a college requirement.
As indicated in the calendar; students starting G2-12 are examined six times per academic year (4 quarter exams, and 2 semester exams). 
The educational process and assessment should continuously change, and optimally the standards that students are assessed on should be elevated after each assessment. However, since the schooling must end at an allotted time, teachers, supervisors, administrators and the VP discuss the standards that are applied to each subject for each grade level before the beginning of the year. The agreed upon standards are decided upon and students are assessed accordingly. If the need arises to change the standards, due to the class inability to achieve the standards, the class overachievement, or any exterior causes beyond the school’s control (e.g. Egyptian Revolution), the teacher informs the supervisor/coordinator, who reports to the VP, and a meeting is held with all the parties involved to discuss the issue and come up with the best practice based on the realistic situation. 
Manor House American School hopes to get to a point where the current elementary students can study more advanced subjects, and have more rigorous assessments when they reach high school, than the current high school students.