The ACS Vision

Our founders, Mr. Poularas and Mr. Speed, opened their first school in 1967 with a bold ambition to create a genuinely caring, engaged community with a strong sense of its role in the lives of the local and global families it served.

From those early beginnings, the core principles of community, positive change, excellence, and internationalism continue to guide ACS today.

An ACS education has at its heart the idea of readiness: when they leave ACS, our students face the world as effective, confident, and caring individuals who are ready to act, lead, care, and change the world.

At the highest level, our purpose is to inspire the world’s next global thinkers and doers. As we look to the future, ACS remains as true to its international education roots now as ever.