The International Schools Group, under which ASD operates, is governed by a 12-member Board of Trustees.

[1] The school operates under a license issued by the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Education.

In high school, ASD offers Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate courses.

In the early 1960s, Saudi Aramco agreed to donate a prefabricated hut to house ASD, with a New Jersey–based public school teacher being appointed as headmaster, Robert Preston.

The campus was adjacent to the US Consulate in Dhahran and in close proximity to the Saudi Aramco Residential Camp in Dhahran inside the boundaries of the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.