Our campuses become a home away from home for students and staff who share their unique cultures with each other and form a tight-knit community.

The Campus Experience

Campus life enriches the students’ academic experience. It offers new activities, leadership opportunities and chances for interaction. While learning independence in some ways, students are supported to thrive emotionally, intellectually and physically.

An Inspirational Environment

Each campus aims to inspire its residents and visitors to learn, work, play and live to their full potential. Academy sites are chosen with care, and campuses are designed by renowned architects and purpose-built to provide exceptional facilities for all aspects of student life.

Learning

With a teacher for every seven students, there is plenty of opportunity for one-to-one tuition.

A student conducts an experiment in a well-resourced laboratory.

Classrooms are designed to meet the needs of the students at each age.

The classrooms are well-equipped for younger students to learn through play.

With spacious campuses, students and staff can always find somewhere to concentrate and work independently.

Junior School students at AKA Mombasa are given individual tablets to enhance their reading, critical thinking and maths skills.

The spacious classrooms are built for interactive learning.

Campuses feature an amphitheatre and spacious outdoor spaces for learning, performing and exploring nature

Playing

AKA Dhaka has numerous sports facilities such as a multi-purpose court for football, basketball and badminton. Junior School students can also play in the junior play area.

Students at AKA Hyderabad can use the swimming and diving pools, a gym, and facilities for basketball, cricket, tennis, squash, hockey, athletics and running.

At AKA Mombasa, there are swimming and diving pools, sports fields, and facilities for cricket, tennis, squash, badminton, volleyball, basketball and netball.

The drama department at each Academy encourages students to explore their imaginative side. Here, an AKA Mombasa Junior School student performs in an annual play.

A Diploma student works on her final piece, titled “Lost in Thoughts”. It illustrates someone who is contemplating how her emotions impact her everyday thoughts.

Music facilities are available on campus, which include individual music practice booths and a music recording area, as well as general teaching space.

There are plenty of opportunities for unstructured play, with playgrounds in each Junior school.

Students perform their dance routine to a packed amphitheatre on the AKA Mombasa campus. Each Academy has a professionally equipped performance space.

Living

Three AKA Mombasa students socialise in their dorm after class.

Students have plenty of free time to play sports, study or be with their friends after school.

All campus staff contribute to the community atmosphere that makes the Academies a second home for their students.

The residences have six residential blocks – three for girls and three for boys.

Students become familiar with food from around the world, with plenty of time to make friends.

Residential students share a room with up to three other students, and double and single rooms are available as they grow older.

Residential students participate in bonding activities, which promote a strong sense of community.

Chess becomes a team game for these four students in their common room.

Residential Life

In many ways, residential life teaches students to be independent, and the Academies soon become a second home for them. Each student has a dorm family of peers with whom to socialise, a dorm captain who acts as an older sibling and a residential parent who monitors their well-being. With pastoral care a priority, students also have access to specialised counsellors and a well-equipped health centre.

Students form a home away from home in the Academy’s residences.

Students learn how to iron, do laundry and keep their living spaces tidy.

Meet a Dorm Parent

"Being a residential parent at AKA Mombasa was my favourite thing to do during my time there. There are times throughout the experience where I felt more like an older sister to the students by providing them advice on school-related and non-school-related things, consoling them when they missed home, and just chatting about what was going on in our lives.

When I am assigned for duty on the weekends, I feel the most connected to the students. We spend some time off-campus at the movie theatre, on a hiking trail or at the beach, but also on-campus when I am supervising the pool area or basketball court during our sports hour. I will also forever cherish the intimate moments I had with the residential students, especially lying outside on the grass in front of the residences on the weekends before dinner time with a few students."

Anusha Lalani, (former) residential parent, AKA Mombasa

Dorm Duties

“I hit the snooze button three times before starting my day at 7 am. As a dorm prefect at AKA Hyderabad, I go room to room to make sure everyone is awake. After getting ready, I sign out of the dorm and head to breakfast with friends, chatting about the day ahead.

School ends at 3:30 pm, followed by snacks, volleyball and dinner at the Commons. At 7:30 pm, the prefects and I collect cookies for our dorms before study time, then study until 9:15 pm. We later return for attendance and cookie distribution, filling the dorms with laughter while supporting students who feel homesick.

Balancing the Diploma Programme with prefect duties was challenging at first, but academic support helped me find balance. Before lights out at 10:30 pm, I call my parents and finish assignments. Being a dorm prefect has taught me empathy, gratitude and the value of listening.”

Aman Gangani, DP2, AKA Hyderabad

What I Did Today

“Greetings from Mombasa! I am 11 years old and love swimming; I have been on the swim team since Grade 1. My day starts at 5:30 am with a 6 am practice at my favourite place on campus, the warm swimming pool. After training, we enjoy breakfast in the Commons, especially Wednesday pancakes, before heading to class at 7:45 am.

We begin with mentor time, where we discuss the day and important notices. Lessons follow, and I enjoy how different each subject is. I might film an advertisement in English, create an animation in digital design or coach a classmate in physical health education.

During breaks and lunch, I play football, basketball or walk around campus. After school, I take part in tennis, LAMDA, Model United Nations and e-sports. I also enjoy trips and competitions, including representing the Academy in swimming in Tanzania.”

Hussain Abdurrahman, Grade 6, AKA Mombasa