The aim was to enable students to integrate smoothly into the American educational system when they returned to their home country.

In 1994, with over one hundred students from 21 nations, ASG moved into a purpose-built school in the Greenery, a housing estate in the Tianhe District.

[5] ASG was reorganized legally in 1998 as a non-profit corporation in the United States, which then contracted with the school entity registered in China for the provision of educational services.

In August 2002, AISG moved to a new, purpose-built facility on Ersha Island, and in 2004 received permission from the IBO to offer the Primary Years Program.

AISG's Early Childhood Center, which teaches pre-kindergarten and kindergarten students from age 3, was added to the Ersha campus site at this time.