Over its 50-year history, Maarif has enriched the lives of tens of thousands of individuals and families across our nation with private education in Saudi Arabia. Maarif, a Saudi Company, in 2019 AD Maarif became one of the mixed investments in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia based on a partnership between GOSI and GEMS Education International to elevate the level of education in the Kingdom based on the international standards and with the Saudi identity. Maarif now includes more than 14 educational complexes throughout the Kingdom, namely "Al-Manarat, Al-Faisaliah Schools, Al-Rawabi Al-Khadra International Schools, Noor Al-Islam and GEMS Saudi International Schools."
We invite you to get acquainted with the important work of Maarif done over the past years through inspiring success stories that distinguished Maarif:
- A Maarif school organized the first TEDx Conference Forum entitled "Change"
- Maarif Schools organized the first forum for giftedness and creativity, entitled Our School's Gifted, A Generation That Conquer Crises with Innovative Creative Solutions.
- Maarif's Children top the first positions in the majority of local and international participations. In the Elite Forum, Maarif students represented 11% of the total participants in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
- The talented Yousef Ahmed Yousef Al-Rabiah represent Maarif within the Advisory Committe the Space Generations Program of the Saudi Space Authority.
- Talented Ruby Khaled invents a device for the hearing impaired and gets a major prize and fifth place in the 2021 National Olympiad for Giftedness and Creativity.
- Talented Nouran Al-Youssef joins the Arab Space Genius Program, which is sponsored by the Emirates Space Agency.
- KAUST selects future scientists from Maarif and supports them to obtain a bachelor's degree from the most prestigious American universities.
- A Maarif school crowned as the best summer enrichment program in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
- Many of Maarif's children get a final average of 100% in aptitude and achievement tests.
- In the field of sports, Maarif's students are at the top of the first places in various games. Recently, student Hassan Hazem Abed won the bronze medal in the Kingdom's Under-17 Fencing Championship.
- Maarif also presents the children's knowledge to be a source of inspiration to society. Student Al-Jazi Al-Ahmadi represented Maarif as a speaker and inspirer in the sessions of the Scientific Conference on Giftedness and Creativity 2020.
- Maarif is proud of the presence of its students in the most prestigious international universities, such as the student Modi Turki Al-Amal - Tufts University in the state of Massachusetts in the United States of America, the student Nada Bader Al-Hashem and Yasmine Al-Mahmoud at Harvard University in the United States, the student Batoul Al-Awami at the Royal Academy of Sandhurst in the United Kingdom and other students in various countries of the world.