There, the founders, Reverend Tanios Saad and Ms. Louisa Proctor wanted to provide basic education for Lebanese girls.

Today, the SABIS Network is managed by individuals and overseen by three independent corporations headquartered in the U.S., Lebanon, and the U.A.E.

SABIS is also expanding to Latin and South America, with plans to open schools in Panama in March 2017 [3] and Brazil in 2018.

[4] ISM's students receive daily instruction in world Languages taught by native speakers.

Students participate in standardized tests such as the National Educational Records Bureau, Advanced Placement, ACT, ACT Aspire, and SAT tests and consistently score in the upper percentiles which helps them to have a 100% college acceptance rate.

For example: peer tutoring, planning events, community service projects, school newspaper and yearbook.

ISM offers eighteen Advanced Placement Courses listed here: Art History, Biology, Calculus AB, Calculus BC, Chinese Language & Culture, Computer Science Principles, English Language & Composition, English Literature & Composition, European History, French Language & Culture, Government & Politics: United States, Human Geography, Music Theory, Physics C, Spanish Language, Spanish Literature & Culture, Statistics, and Studio Art: Drawing.

Their All-School Musical in 2015 received "Outstanding" and "Honorable Mention" awards from The Hennepin Theater Trust, which recognizes performers across the state of Minnesota.

Show choir sings popular music and is choreographed and they go on a tour each year – they went to Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida in February 2016 and they also traveled to Puerto Rico to perform in 2015.