It offers an education based on the American curriculum, along with the International Baccalaureate (IB) option.

The school offers a bilingual program of study for only Bahraini students from Kindergarten to Grade Twelve.

Also in 1994, IKNS was involved in founding Middle East IB Association (MEIBA) during the 1994–95 academic year and has been affiliated with it since.

In 2007, 113 students, including King Hamad's son Shaikh Khalid bin Hamad Al Khalifa, graduated from the school, with 47 achieving International Baccalaureates (IB), 27 graduating from the Honour Society, 11 with distinction, eight with high distinction, and three from the Student Congress.

[2] In 2009, the school won the annual OnionBag Under-19 Girls Soccer Tournament in Dubai for the first time.