[1] Founded in 1980 by Farid and Sue Dahdah, the school is named after the former prime minister Abdul Hamid Sharaf who had recently died at the time.
[3] Jordanian Senator Leila A. Sharaf presented the school with a sizable fund to establish its first library.
Starting with 18 students in a small rented villa, the school soon outgrew the location and moved to its current premises in the summer of 1991.
[6] AHSS was reaccredited in spring 2019 by Cognia formerly known as North Central Association Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement (NCA CASI) a division of AdvancED.
School representatives attend the annual administrators' and teachers' conferences organized by NESA throughout the Near Eastern and South Asian regions.