Bahrain Bayan School (BBS, Arabic: مدرسة بيان البحرين, Madrasat Bayân al-Bahrain), based in Isa Town, Bahrain, is an independent, non-profit, co-educational, bilingual school in Arabic and English, offering preschool through grade 12.
Accredited and licensed by the Bahrain Ministry of Education, under Bahraini law, the school provides an American-based and Arabic curriculum, as well as the International Baccalaureate diploma.
[1] BBS was established in 1982 by Dr. May Al Otaibi and Kathleen Acher Kaiksow in response to the need for a bilingual national school on the island of Bahrain.
In 1986, to accommodate the increasing enrollment, BBS relocated to its present site at the educational district in Isa Town, which was a piece of land granted by Sheikh Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa.
It has a gymnasium/multi-purpose building, Mohammed Al Zamil Hall, which was built in 2001 and contains a 600-seat theater, two full-size basketball courts, two squash courts, an aerobic dance studio, weight training and fitness center.