Welcome to The American International School of Conakry

Welcome to the American International School of Conakry (AISC), often described as a “small school with a big heart.” For almost five decades we have had the privilege of supporting children toward purposeful young adulthood. Our rigorous academic program, values-centered curriculum, and caring faculty aim to prepare our students for successful and responsible future endeavors. AISC serves students from the three year old program through grade 12 using an English based curriculum that emphasizes inquiry based learning, a variety of co-curricular activities, a strong emphasis on the development of the whole child and a commitment to educational best practices. Our curriculum, while based on the North American system, is constantly appraised to stay truly global. We constantly strive to offer the best of education to our international community of learners, most of whose members are already multi-lingual, multi-cultural, and multi-ethnic.

AISC is about learning and learning is about acquiring not only knowledge but also skills to be able to function in an ever-increasingly complex world. As educators, we will not stop at teaching our students the parts of a flower, but also teach them how to appreciate its beauty. We will not limit ourselves to teaching our English students how to recognize a certain literary device in a poem; we will also show them how to be affected by it. Our students will learn how to program a computer, as well as how to judge the validity of an opinion.  AISC seeks to become the best of community of learners, to bring together people of all backgrounds and invite them on a journey that leads them from self to selflessness and from individuality to inter-dependence.

As educators, our goal at AISC is simple: quality education for the students we work for. We are confident that the fruit of our efforts will be thoughtful and well-informed citizens that have the confidence to question facts, the reasoning power to understand them as well as to judge them, and the wisdom to make a value judgment.  Please take some time to visit the different sections of the site to learn more about our exciting “little school with the big heart”.

Dr. Raymond Lemoine
Director